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What if your garden could continue supporting your wellbeing all winter long, not just in July?As the days grow shorter and the garden settles into winter, there are still ways to grow, preserve, and enjoy nourishing food throughout the colder months. This workshop brings together the worlds of gardening, food, and seasonal wellness, exploring how a year-round garden can help keep fresh, nutrient-dense foods within reach from fall through spring.
Join us for an inspiring and practical exploration of how we can make the most of what we grow from the soil beneath our feet to the food on our winter table.
🌿 Guided by Hélène of Hélène’s Garden
Our guide, Hélène of Hélène’s Garden, brings together her scientific background and years of hands-on experience growing food in challenging northern climates. Through her work, she shares practical ways to extend the growing season, grow indoors and outdoors, and cultivate greater independence, resilience, and abundance through food.
What you’ll discover:
🥕 From garden to table : explore the connection between healthy soil, nutrient-dense food, food storage, and nourishing ourselves through the seasons.
🌱 Fresh food through winter: discover what you can grow, harvest, preserve, and keep on hand from October through April, both indoors and outdoors.
🥬 Grow what nourishes you : explore vegetables, greens, herbs, and other nutrient-rich foods that can become part of your winter garden and everyday meals.
🍵 Seasonal wellness habits : simple ways to bring gardening, growing, harvesting, preserving, and eating into your daily winter rhythm.
🧺 Homegrown vs. store-bought : consider what changes when fresh food comes directly from your own garden, and how growing your own can give you greater connection to what you eat.
Whether you’re new to gardening or have been growing for years, this workshop will inspire you to think beyond the summer harvest and discover how much nourishment a garden can continue to offer throughout the colder months.
🌾 Workshop Details
📍 Location: 399 River Rd -Gaia Organic Farm
🌱 Setting: Outdoors and in the greenhouse ~ rain or shine
🕐 Time: 1:00–2:30 PM
Bilingual
🧥 What to bring: Dress appropriately for the weather and the season.
🍵 A little warmth: Warm, harvested herbal tea will be provided.
Come gather with us as the garden rests, share in the warmth of the greenhouse, and discover how growing your own food can become part of a nourishing winter practice. 🌿❄️
🌱 Part of the Gardening Year Round Series
September 27 -Winter Greens Under Snow: What Actually Survives in Ottawa
Discover the leafy greens, root crops, herbs, and other resilient plants that can survive and even thrive beneath an Ottawa winter.
October 18 - Protecting Your Fall Garden with Low Tunnels
Learn how simple, affordable structures can protect your crops from frost and extend your harvest weeks or even months beyond the first freeze.
Three workshops. Three ways to keep the abundance growing.
Because a garden doesn’t have to stop giving when winter arrives there is nourishment to be found in every season. 🌱
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399 River Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario K1V1C9, Gaia Organic Seeds, 399 River Rd, Gloucester, ON K1V 1C9, Canada
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