Located beneath the SkyTrain tracks at Victoria and Hull, the Cedar Cottage Community Gardens are having a Spring festival, and we are playing at it sometime after 2 pm. From noon on, they'll be giving tours of the garden site, discussing its past and future, as well as offering garden membership and plots and participation in a fundraising 50/50 draw. The Environmental Youth Alliance will be offering basic gardening workshops at half past the hour, and there will also be food plants for sale: "lettuce, spinach, scallions, beans, beets, peppers, basil, soybeans, carrots, peas, sunflowers, many varieties tomatoes, gooseberries, dill, cilantro, broccoli, strawberry, raspberry canes, borage, yarrow, and more."
As well as drumming from Cease Wyss, the festivities will include a garden-themed poetry contest, rewarding those who can best handle subjects randomly drawn out of a hat.
