SOG began the new year with enthusiasm and anticipation of continued important deeds. Rita and Elizabeth prepared the final January thirty horticultural therapy bags and they were delivered to joyful recipients. Rita delivered books to book club members and book club members enjoyed discussing A Kind Life. In February the [...]
SOG is pleased to announce our tenth annual fundraiser at Pantry Plus.
Thanks to the grant from The Ottawa Community Foundation and Singing Pebble Books SOG was able to purchase three books for discussion this winter.
In early 2024, thanks to our generous grant funding, SOG continued the efforts begun in 2023. The third horticultural therapy bags were delivered by Rita Moore in January. Recipients were especially grateful for the book Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use. [...]
Thanks to a generous grant and the continued support of The Ottawa Community Foundation, SOG will be able to continue to provide guidance, assistance, and much needed programming for the upcoming winter of 2024-2025. We will continue with our online book club. We will support isolated seniors with three wellness [...]
Thanks to our growers and our May, 2024 deliveries, gardeners on Gladstone Avenue started planting vegetables for the 2024 gardening season. We look forward to hearing about and seeing the beautiful beds they have created. We wish them gardening success and hope they enjoy the food they grow.
The gardeners on Somerset Street have had a hugely successful gardening season. They garden in raised self-watering tables and in buckets on the mezzanine of their centre town building. Thanks to the NHS grant, SOG was able to purchase a few more tables from Lee Valley, organic soil and seeds, [...]
2023 was a memorable year for SOG. Thanks to Ivan, we launched our brand new website. We continued to benefit from Rita's hard work with our many clients. Rob, our Garden Coach, gave 13 workshops in the winter and spring months. In the late spring he gave five back-to-back workshops [...]
