Gardening Season Is Back! Volunteers Needed

Holy Name Pollinator Garden – Volunteers Needed

It is such a gift to have Spring unfolding around us! And the Pollinator Garden will very soon need some care. We have been very fortunate in having volunteers every year to tend to the Garden with watering, weeding, maintaining a beautiful sacred space beside , and in front of the Church.

There will be a sign-up sheet at the back of the Church on May 2 and onwards for all those wishing to volunteer or those wishing to make a financial donation to the Garden. Creation will bless you, and the pollinators will give you a kiss!

Young Person Sought for a Summer Job Collaborating in Care for Pollinators

Through the parish pollinator garden, we have come to know Carrie Dohe, the Executive Director of Bees for Peace. Carrie offered a wonderful presentation to the parish a couple of summers ago. She will be in Toronto in the last weeks of July, and would like a young person (late teens, early twenties) to assist her. If you would love to learn more about pollinators and pollinator gardening, this would be a fun and enriching experience. A grant from Canada Works would offer remuneration.

All of Carrie’s work is faith-connected, designed to respond to the needs and spirit of multifaith, multicultural communities. Carrie also sees this relationship with pollinators as peacebuilding. Over two weeks in July, you would collaborate with Carrie in offering a Summer Camp for children, offering workshops and teaching to interested communities, and establishing pollinator gardens in these communities.

If interested, please email Carrie Dohe - info@beesforpeace.org.  Thank you.