This scarecrow was the only one around when I stopped by the community garden at the Gabriola Commons the other day. Most days I see a variety of gardeners here, planting and tending their crops. If you live on Gabriola and want to garden at the Commons, stop by the gardens and look for the [...]
Filed in Gabriola Island,gardening Comments Off
Gabriola’s Easter Egg Hunt will be at the Gabriola Commons this Sunday, April 8th. It starts at 1pm. Thanks to the Gabriola Rod, Gun, and Conservation Club for organizing and running this event. And my, they’ve been busy with the signs this year, hmm? This one is at the intersection of North Road and South [...]
Filed in events,Gabriola Island Comments Off
Every time I stop by the Gabriola Commons, there’s something new. What do you suppose they’re up to with all this orange stuff?
Filed in Gabriola Island Comments Off
This is what the pond at the Gabriola Commons looked like this afternoon.
Filed in Gabriola Island 2 Comments so far
Oh look, over there in the grasses!
Filed in Gabriola Island,wildlife Comments Off
Gabriola’s Fall Fair will be at the Gabriola Commons this Sunday, September 18th, 2011, and it does sound like fun. If you’re in the mood for competition, enter your veggies, flowers, food, crafts, or animals into the various categories of contests. Just want to hang out and have fun? Here’s the schedule: 9:00 to 10:30 [...]
Filed in events,Gabriola Island One Response so far
A cheery face, yes? This scarecrow is at the Gabriola Commons.
Filed in Gabriola Island Comments Off
Dear Gabriola Commons, I just read the Visions and Voices (pdf) report you posted on your website. Wasn’t I surprised when I got to page 29 of that report, and noticed one of my photos there. It’s this photo of a bee on a flower that I took back in 2009, and published here on [...]
Filed in Gabriola Island 2 Comments so far
Have you noticed the new greenhouse at the Gabriola Commons? It’s in the upper community garden – the one nearest North Road.
Filed in Gabriola Island,gardening Comments Off
This year’s Gabriola Easter Egg Hunt will be on Sunday, April 24th, at the Gabriola Commons. Starts at 1pm. The hunt is being run by volunteers from the Gabriola Rod, Gun, and Conservation Club. Hunting eggs, hunting deer… all in their mandate! ;-) I don’t think kids get to shoot the eggs, though.
Filed in events,Gabriola Island Comments Off
Look what’s appeared at the Gabriola Commons, in the garden nearest the house! Looks like a greenhouse to me, and I imagine the allotment gardeners will be extremely pleased about this.
Filed in Gabriola Island,gardening Comments Off
Lots of people on Gabriola seem to plant bamboo to screen out that ugly thing the neighbour’s doing. Are you one of them? If so, I’ve got just the craft project for you, and a story too. It’s this: Scientists make bamboo tools to test theory explaining East Asia’s Stone Age tool scarcity. How cool [...]
Filed in assorted,Gabriola Island 3 Comments so far
Those Poetry Gabriola volunteers are fast workers. Last Friday I showed you the yurt platform, with no yurt upon it. Now the whole thing seems to be done! (Well, they’ll probably add steps, and perhaps some cosmetic thing around the base.)
Filed in Gabriola Island Comments Off
There are several cob walls on Gabriola. There’s the one near Whalebone (On Petkau or something?), the one on Dirksen, the one on… oh, I’m sure there are too many to count. But this is the most well known of them all: the cob wall at the Gabriola Commons. But, hmmm. Is something wrong here? [...]
Filed in Gabriola Island 2 Comments so far
Did you go to Seedy Saturday at the Gabriola Commons yesterday? We did, and we came away with packages of free bean seeds. The deal is this: we grow the beans, and return ten percent of the beans we grow to the Commons in the fall. Brilliant scheme. There was a Seeds of Diversity display, [...]
Filed in events,Gabriola Island,gardening 3 Comments so far
Last time I went by the Gabriola Commons to see how the Gabriola Poetry Yurt was coming along, the foundations were there, but that was about it. But now, look: much progress! The platform is in place. Update of the update, March 5th, 2011: Wha-hooo! Lattice walls are up. You can see the structure from [...]
Filed in Gabriola Island Comments Off
Tomorrow (March 5th) will be Seedy Saturday at the Gabriola Commons. It starts at 11, goes until 3pm, and is just the sort of thing that people who garden will probably enjoy. The Commons explains that you can expect: . . . a variety of events, demonstrations and games for children. Some of the events [...]
Filed in events,Gabriola Island Comments Off
On winter afternoons, the light delights me. Can you resist it? This is the Gabriola Commons‘ boardwalk and the winter sky.
Filed in Gabriola Island,photos 3 Comments so far
