2022 is the Year of the Garden
/The Canadian Garden Council (CGC) has proclaimed 2022 as the Year of the Garden to commemorate Canada’s garden heritage, celebrate today’s vibrant garden culture, and participate in initiatives that will create a sustainable future for our children.
Being the gardeners that we are, we’re ALL over this! And we’re assuming many Ottawa families will want to jump on board, too. The CGC is working to have parliament officially declare 2022 as the Year of the Garden, and you could email/call your local municipalities to push for this initiative.
The initiative will officially launch on March 20th, the first day of spring, and we’ll be covering a number of different stories related to gardening here in Ottawa. We also want to invite our many followers to share their stories and gardening adventures with us. If you have a fun and interesting story about gardening with kids, please email us at: kidsinthecapital@gmail.com
In the meantime, who’s already shopping for seeds? I know I am! Here’s a roundup of some of our past posts related to gardening:
Will it Grow? Experiments for Kids in Growing Veggies
The Vegetable Gardener and the Art of Seed Saving
Quick and Easy Guide to a Veggie Garden
What you wished you’d been told about gardening with children
As you can see, we’re very vegetable garden-biased, so we’d love to hear from folks who grow things other than veggie gardens. Have you got a native flower garden? Are you growing things to attract the bees? Hit us up!
And stay tuned for the Year of the Garden.
