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The Bruce Botanical Food
garden is hoping to pre -sell
trees this fall.
"It would be a unique
Christmas gift," said Taylor,
"there's an entire apple econ-
omy, people love apples,
apple pie, apple turnovers,
apple sauce."
With help from social
media, the BBFG is hoping
for people to travel world-
wide for these apples.
"Many locals don't even
know that the Wismer Desert
Apple originated in Port
Elgin," said Taylor. "Tourist's
come from all over seeking
out different apples."
The BBFG, a non-profit
garden located in Ripley, has
been busy since opening in
the end of September 2012.
The garden features four
basic areas. The round gar-
den was funded by the soci-
ety of Energy Professionals.
They provided the garden
with plant materials, botani-
cal signage for the plants,
tractor seats and the front
gates.
The living -well classroom
is still in progress, with plans
to build two seven and a half
foot circular walls around
the garden.
"The living -well classroom
will be ideal for birthdays,
seminars, workshops and
photographs along with
other things," said Lynn
Lynne Taylor kneels next to one of the four featured gardens in the Bruce Botanical Food Garden.
This garden was funded by the society of Energy Professionals, and is shaped like a lightning bolt.
Taylor. "the high walls will be
ideal, providing privacy for
those inside and no distrac-
tions for others touring the
gardens:'
The third area has a walk-
way, with a satellite dish
gazebo, which will be an
overturned satellite dish held
up as a gazebo roof, in the
works.
"Recycling is huge for us,"
said Taylor. "We have used
dead trees, tractor seats and
mattress springs to decorate
the garden."
The garden will soon fea-
ture a 25 -foot -high sculpture
of mother earth used out of
Bruce Botanical Food Garden's Lynne Taylor shows off the
signature `Ripley Apple' that was selected by popular demand
during the Ripley Fall Fair.
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The final area is dedicated
to the three sisters first
nations, the plants will use
the companion planting
Technique which was used
by the three sisters, where
the plant grows in close prox-
imity to another plant which
would benefit the growth.
The garden has sunflowers,
squash and beans.
The garden has had many
visitors this past year, includ-
ing a grade three/four class
from Ripley Huron Commu-
nity School, who were able
to harvest strawberry pop-
corn, which is small straw-
berry shaped and coloured
but tastes unusual, and take
home black calypso beans,
also called orca beans. The
beans appear to be small and
shrivel on the outside but on
the inside look like a yin-
yang. Ryan Bear, a one-man
blues band gave a musical
performance.
The garden is a full sum-
mer project. On-site work
began in April of this year.
The garden is to be used as a
living marketplace, with it's
gates always open and self -
guided tours available.
The Ontario Trillium
Foundation provided funds
for a contractor to take earth
from the pathways and put it
where the gardens were
planned to be, creating
raised flowerbeds.
The garden doesn't hide
or fix the flaws they come
into, they instead hope peo-
ple touring the garden can
learn the struggles that gar-
deners have to overcome.
"We hope people from the
city will come to visit, to
learn about how food is
really made, and grown," said
Taylor. "It's a learning
garden."
With more projects to
come, Taylor and other vol-
unteers at the garden are
hoping they can get even
more volunteers out so the
garden can be a beautiful
place for the community of
Ripley to be proud of.
For more information on
the garden or volunteering at
the garden email Taylor at
ltaylor@bbfg.org or visit their
facebook page.
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The Bruce
Botanical Food
Garden started
construction on
June 25, 2012
and has come
a long way. The
garden features
all recycled
decorations and
rare botanical
plants.
Cyclist crashes, charged
with open liquor, drugs
Cyclist Facing Charges
A 43 -year-old Huron -Kinloss Township man was charged
with possession of a controlled substance and open liquor on
Halloween morning, after South Bruce OPP received a report
of an injured cyclist.
Police responded to the call at 11:09 a.m., after they were
called to a report of an injured cyclist on Park Street in Rip-
ley. Officers arrived and located a male cyclist with cuts on
his head. He was taken to hospital for assessment of non -life
threatening injuries. The man had been riding with open
alcohol and he was found to be in possession of illegal
drugs.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 16 to answer to
the charges.
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