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 [...]
Senior Organic Gardeners is pleased to present 4 FREE webinars as part of its 2024 Symposium. Join us Wednesday afternoons, January 17 to February 7, for a series of organic gardening webinars that will help you make the most of our growing season in the National Capital. Microgreens, macro knowledge [...]
Senior Organic Gardeners would like to thank and congratulate Rob Danforth. Our very own Garden Coach gave a series of well attended demonstartions under the new Just Food pergola on Saturday, May 13, 2023. The workshops were part of the Just Food Seedling Saturday event at the farm in Blackburn [...]
The Senior Organic Gardeners are extremely grateful to The Ottawa Community Foundation. The Foundation generously awarded SOG a grant in the fall of 2021. SOG requested funding to establish a new website, a logo, and a comprehensive guide to the workings of the Senior Organic Gardeners. The guide facilitates the establishment of [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]