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Saturday Green Home & Garden Tour feature 'living roof,' garden planting

Posted 5/26/11

The Sustainable Living Project & Local Living Festival is sponsoring another in a series of Green Home & Garden Tours with a garden planting party and a tour of a living roof and an …

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Saturday Green Home & Garden Tour feature 'living roof,' garden planting

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The Sustainable Living Project & Local Living Festival is sponsoring another in a series of Green Home & Garden Tours with a garden planting party and a tour of a living roof and an interesting alternative housing design on Saturday, May 28.

The garden event will be from 10 a.m. to noon, with a break for lunch and then the tour begins at 1 p.m.

Garden Planting Party: Help plant out transplant seedlings -- which is the traditional way to spend Memorial Day weekend in the North Country. Learn from experienced gardeners and help create part of Cecilie's Garden this year.

UShare, a community service project managed by Canton's Unitarian Universalist Church plants hundreds of seedlings every year, tending and harvesting for donation to area food pantries.

You will learn about planting out seedlings, raised beds, drip irrigation, and proper mulching.

Green Home Tour: Meet with the builder/growers of an Asian-style storage building with an attached carport that is a thin-shelled concrete living roof supporting an ornamental and vegetable garden. We will also tour their home and ask questions about life in a yurt, a typical nomadic dwelling in some Asian cultures.

There is no fee for the garden planting party event, though there is a suggested donation for the tour only of $10 to $20, sliding scale, $5 student -- scholarships available.

By reservation only, RSVP for the event location and other information. Note if you are interested in the gardening event, the tour, or both. Pre-register at SustLivingProject@gmail.com or 347-4223.