Community Volunteers are welcomed to join BDHS members in hand planting 200 native mixed variety potted trees & shrubs in Bolton’s North Hill Park, behind the Caledon Centre on Highway 50 south of Columbia Way.  Tools and gloves will be provided.  Please wear appropriate shoe or boots – the ground may be muddy.

• Pot Luck Supper
• Photo Show – entries must be in place by 7:00 pm
• BDHS Annual Reports
• Financial Report
• Election of Directors for 2019

Followed by SPEAKER SERIES starting at 7:30 pm

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There are 5 Classes in the 2018 AGM Photo Show. You may enter only 1 photo in each class.

Class 1: Starting Out – photo of seed(s), seedling(s) or young plant(s)
Class 2: Look What I Grew in My Garden
Class 3: Pollinator– photo of plant, flower or vegetable with pollinator
Class 4: Garden Visitor(s) – your interpretation
Class 5: The Garden in Fall

Rules and regulations specific to this show:

1. Entries must be in place by 7:15 p.m.

2. All exhibitors should be BDHS members in good standing.

3. Digital photo prints are accepted provided images have not been manipulated, although cropping is acceptable and recommended.

4. Photos must be taken by the member submitting same but need not be photographs of a member’s own garden.

5. All images must include some horticultural content. Judging will be based on image quality and the manner in which the image is evocative of the class.

6. Photos must not have been entered in a previous photo show of the BDHS.

7. Exhibitor’s responsibilities:
a. Each photo print to be mounted individually on white bristol board (mounting will not be judged) one to two inches larger than photo.
b. Photos may be of any size up to 8 x 10 inches (not including mounting board).
c. Entry tags must be complete and affixed to the bottom of mounting boards.
d. Place photos in proper class.
e. One entry per class.
f. Removal of photos after the show.

8. Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place. No cash awards.

TOPIC: Mount Wolfe Farm offers a year round community supported agriculture (CSA) service for people who are interested in locally and ethically grown food. Using ecological and regenerative farm applications, the farm produces a variety of vegetables, herbs and free-range chickens. The farm also provides a full selection of foods produced by other local farmers and businesses including fruit, honey, maple syrup, preserves, home-made soup, baked goods, eggs, flour and other goodies. Click here for a link to their website.

Speaker: Mount Wolfe Farm’s Sarah Dolamore will talk about growing practices that reflect her family’s love of this land and their sense of responsibility for its long-term health. This is a responsibility they take very seriously. For the past 50 years, they have demonstrated how reforestation and conservation efforts can regenerate depleted farmland and improve biodiversity, soil health and ecological integrity.

Guided by their parents’ legacy and the current generation’s commitment to conservation of the land, their farming and forestry practices are grounded in ecological approaches that improve and enhance soil fertility, biodiversity and animal health. For example, allowing free-range chickens into fallow market garden plots to feed on insects fertilizes the soil for next season’s crops and provides a pest-management solution.

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