The poster design is one used for several years for the flower sale put on each Mother's Day weekend by the school where my kids went, years ago. It's a great way to make money for school projects, and also serves a valuable neighborhood purpose.This is planting time, and finding bedding plants, hanging baskets and other gardening fripery is pleasant work. But in this neighborhood not everyone has cars--ordinariily you don't need one really--and so getting flowers home can be a problem. The school is just a short walk or bike away, though, which makes providing the growing things that will make small gardens lovely is much easier.
Of course, it just thundered and rain is forecast, which may make the sale a little damp. But, courage, gardeners: planting in rainy weather gets plants off to a good start.
My apologies for the quality of the images: the poster was too big to be scanned in one piece by my machine, so I had to split it up.
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Oh, I saw that cycling through Mile End and Outremont, and, if I recall, at Bibliothèque Robert-Bouassa where I was able to reserve and borrow the ONLY copy of The Walkable City in the Montréal library system. Have almost finished Green City, but there are a few more copies of that around, at Mile-End, Robert-Bourassa and some others farther removed.
It is sweet. Friends were among those starting up Nouvelle Querbes. Lower Outremont was actually a very modest neighbourhood back then. Lots of "creatives" among the parents, and the children.
Later in the season there will be an organic market in Outremont, but as it is up the hill it is not necessarily easier to access than Jean-Talon. And a new one not so far away on St-Dominique just in front of St-Enfant-Jésus de Mile-End church, the Jesuit church that could easily fit into those other Latin countries of the Americas, thousands of km to the south. http://www.imtl.org/edifices/eglise-Saint-Enfant-Jesus-du-Mile-End.php I love the idea of a market in front of such a church; takes me back to Italy!
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