October 2025 newsletter

The October 2025 issue of Seeders and Weeders has a talk on foraging and some good news for the club.

Guest speaker: foraging

Mikaela Cannon has taught classes, workshops, and hikes on sustainable foraging in the Okanagan for over ten years. She studied to be a wilderness guide in Sweden. In 2024 she published “Foraging as a Way of Life,” a year-round field guide to finding, harvesting, and cooking wild plants and mushrooms safely. Part of the book’s sales goes to the Splatsin teaching center.

An award for the club

The club received a Communities in Bloom and Miracle-Gro Best Garden Selection award. Paul Peacock accepted it for the club.

Other news

• Sue and Terry hosted the fall social on September 23 and gave members a tour of their beautiful gardens.
• The Recreation Fair was quiet this year.
• Heather Hayes and Chris Williams will keep an eye on the petunia planters for a few more weeks.
• Members are reminded to clean up the hall well after meetings.
• As you put your garden to bed, think about potting up plants for the spring plant sale.

Also in this issue

All about pumpkins. They are really a fruit, they first grew in North America, and they are 92% water. The issue also explains the Three Sisters way of planting corn, beans, and squash together.

The next meeting is November 4, 2025.