SOG is grateful to the RTOERO Foundation for their generous grant to support our project entitled "Planting the Roots of Wellness." This one-year project will permit SOG to reach out to seniors where they live. Seniors will receive raised gardening tables, organic seeds, seedlings, compost, and fertilizer. The project also [...]
SOG was awarded a grant from the Federal Government's New Horizons for Seniors Program. Our project is entitled "Adding Life to Years." This one-year project will permit SOG to work with seven community housing groups, veterans at The Perley Centre, and indigenous seniors through the Gignal Non-Profit Housing Corporation. May, 2023 will [...]
In March 2022 we had to say a sad goodbye to our Garden Manager, Chelsea Dozois. Before she left, Chelsea organized and led a SOG Book Club, a session on nutrition with Elycia Thompson, and a second on-line symposium. We were still under restrictions so our Book Club was virtual. [...]
SOG programs are expanding Senior Organic Gardeners has had a whirlwind couple of months preparing for its winter programs, including the horticultural therapy program, with the collaboration and contributions of Betty Weil as incoming Program Director. Winter Programs The program’s coordinator, Chelsea, will be facilitating a book club with two groups of Seniors, reading ‘Braiding [...]
Senior Organic Gardeners is alive and well… having had a busy spring and summer with Rob Danforth as SOG Gardening Coach offering numerous ZOOM workshops and Q&A’s. We are winding down the growing & harvest season and getting ready for the Horticultural Therapy activities during the winter months (December through March) [...]
The Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP), has provided Canadian Organic Growers funding valued at $24,400 for its Senior Organic Gardeners’ Program (SOG) in 2019. This great news allows our Horticultural Manager to assist seniors in Ottawa Community Housing buildings and in Seniors’ Community Centres to take [...]
The Senior Organic Gardeners program is well underway this year in the area. We have adopted 7 clients, however, some of these groups have extra sub groups so at times we have been advising 12 groups in total. We offered seeds, seedlings, soil, compost, and box beds as far [...]
