Annual Jarvis Lecture

The Friends of the Public Gardens present the Annual Jarvis Lecture :

Dr. Susan Guppy
Community Gardens: >From Traditional to Contemporary
Ideas to inspire the urban gardener and community groups.
Thursday 6 May 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Doors open at 6pm for viewing of information displays
Scotia Lecture Theatre,
Saint Mary's University
The lecture will be preceded by a showing of
My Urban Garden , dir.Polly Bennell,1984,N.F.B.

All are welcome. Please feel free to forward this to your members and anyone who might be interested and to post it on your website.
After the lecture there will be light refreshments in the lobby .
There are a limited number of tables available for information displays. If you would like to promote your group at this event, please contact Ann Kitz (annkitz@ns.sympatico.ca) before April 29th.

Dr Guppy ,Associate Professor of Planning at Dalhousie University, has had a varied educational and professional career. First trained as a chemist and limnologist, she worked in Ontario with companies like Hough Stansbury and Associates. After managing academic programs and teaching at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie she returned to Columbia University to study architecture. After practicing as an architect in New Jersey and Quebec, she returned to Nova Scotia to take a position at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, before joining the School of Planning at TUNS (now Dalhousie) in 1993.With teaching interests as varied as her background, Dr Guppy teaches courses in Urban Ecology, History and Theory of Landscape Architecture, Planning Studio, Introduction to Community Design, and Reading the Landscape. Her research focuses on urban ecology, the environment of the suburbs, and food in the city.
In Polly Bennell's short film, Halifax gardener Carol Bowlby harvests a mouth-watering crop from her small backyard plot. In considering soil quality, lack of space and a short growing season challenges rather than obstacles, she offers a wealth of practical growing tips for urban gardeners. By heeding Bowlby's advice, bountiful organic gardens work equally well on apartment balconies, in small or large city lots or in a rural setting.
Presented with the support of St. Mary's University and the Halifax Regional Municipality.