A South Osborne Sustainable Home video now available to view

The Riverview and Lord Roberts CLER Program is proud to present a video: A South Osborne Sustainable Home is a 7-minute tour of a sustainable home renovation in the South Osborne neighbourhood of Riverview. You’ll view innovative approaches to renovation, such as using recycled materials and soy-based insulation, and installing efficient appliances and a green roof! We will be hosting two premieres of our video at our upcoming Free Home Energy Efficiency Workshops, where we will be giving away free supplies to everyone who attends.

We would like to thank the very talented Matt Wiebe, who was our Videographer for the project, and we would also like to thank Bill Newsinger, who generously provided the music for the video.

SOCC Hoop House Build a great example of what community stands for

The South Osborne Community Cooperative’s Hoop House Build on Saturday, June 11, was inspiring. Most people are probably expecting a small hoop house, but SOCC had a dream to build a walk-in greenhouse, and they did it. Stop by the Lord Roberts Community Centre field to see the impressive new edifice, and see how the Lord Roberts-daycare planted gardens are coming along. SOCC is seeking volunteers to help maintain the gardens. Please contact gardening.southosborneucc@gmail.com for more information.

Hoop House Build volunteers at the community gardens in the Lord Roberts Community Centre field.

Wheelchair-Assessible Garden Now Open!

The Accessible Garden is built and opened at the Riverview Community Gardens in record timing, and it looks beautiful. Residents from Riverview Health Centre and volunteers planted the wheelchair-accessible garden bed at the grand opening on Friday, Jun. 3.

Accessible Garden at the Riverview Community Gardens, photo courtesy of Linda Olsen

Gardenshare

Now that most of the snow is gone, my mind is buzzing with excitement asking, “what will I grow this year?”  If you don’t usually garden you may want to take part in South Osborne Urban Community Cooperative (SOUCC) gardenshare program this year.

Have a garden space but don’t use it? Or, do you want to garden but don’t have the space? This program connects people so they can share a garden and fresh vegetables. There are two options for involvement:

Landowners can sign up here.

Gardeners can sign up here.

CLER will be hosting some gardening workshops in May from the fine folks at Urban Eatin Co-op. Dates to come.