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Alternatives is offering workshops on three dates: May 11, 19 and June 23 at 6:30pm.

Participants will learn how to build their own self-watering containers from recuperated and recycled materials. You do not need a green thumb! These containers allow for growing vegetables on balconies, terraces and even side walks.

The event will be held May 27th, 28th and 29th. We will have some self-watering containers for sale!

The Great Gardening Weekend is organized in co-operation with the Friends of the Montréal Botanical Garden and representatives of the horticultural industry in Quebec, and offers a wide variety of attractions for green thumbs of all ages. The Great Gardening Weekend is a superb opportunity to stock up on plants of all kinds. Growers from across Québec will be on hand, offering the most recent varieties and some of their rarest plant specimens. The Montréal Botanical Garden itself will even be selling some new, rare and forgotten plants - a chance to make some terrific discoveries!

Katimavik is looking for an intern, who knows quite well urban agriculture, or/and shows great interest in this area. The person will have the opportunity to work on the ground with community groups in Montreal on urban agriculture projects. Please consult the following site for all matters of eligibility eco-stage : http://www.ecostage.qc.ca/.

Within the framework of model 31, a project launched by the Supporting Montreal Schools Program, four classes in five primary schools had the opportunity to participate in the project “Nature and us: a journey through time”. In partnership with the Biosphere and the Château Ramezay Museum, Alternatives’ Rooftop Garden Project developed a new series of workshops in food systems literacy. Students began the journey last fall at the Biosphere where they learned about the intricate balance of life that allows an ecological garden to be both productive and beautiful. In the winter, they visited the Château Ramezay Museum where they discovered the cultural and traditional history of edible and medicinal plants used by the settlers of New France. The journey ended back in their schools where Alternatives visited each of these 20 classes throughout the spring to give a four-part workshop series in urban agriculture.

First activity of the 2011 season, the CRAPAUD invites you to a compost work party.

It will also be an occasion to discuss the installations of the gardens this summer.

we will need you arms and creative spirits!