Trip 9 & 10 – September & October 2012

Hello Bike2Farmers,

As you may have noticed (or not) there has not been many Bike2Farm trips this summer. I have been interning on a farm myself (and commuting by bike : ) and have not had the time to organize any trips. BUT there are two trips planned for this harvest time!

1) First off, sorry for the late notice! : Saturday September 15^th, 2012 to Jardin de la Resistance for their annual Harvest Party. We went last year it was fantastic!  The trip is 78km and I will be guiding to the farm and Pauline (old bike2farmer) will be guiding it back. We will be leaving at 6:30am on Saturday.

Destination Address: 1150 rang des Botreaux, Ormstown, QC, J0S 1K0

To register, click on the ‘Trip Listing and Registration’ page and click on the word: [Registration Open] fill out the boxes and I will get back to you soon.

2) Departure early on Friday October 5^th, 2012. We will be biking 110km to Ferme Mélilot.  I am suggesting that only people with some distance biking experience come on this trip. That said, I do encourage people to push their limits and am open to possibilities (email me and we will talk about it).

Departure Time: to be determined.

Destination Address: 5022 rue principal, Dunham, QC

To register, click on the ‘Trip Listing and Registration’ page and click on the word: [Registration Open] fill out the boxes and I will get back to you soon.

Hope you can make it!

Tell your friends : )

Happy Harvest,

Graham

Trip 8 Postponed to weekend of October 21st

Trip 8 has been postponed!

Our trip to Little Forrest Community has been pushed to next weekend – Friday, October 21st to Sunday, October 23rd. For more information, see the next post.

Register for Trip 8

Trip Number 8 – Registration now open!

From October 14th-16th, Bike2Farm will journey to the beautiful and peaceful Little Forrest Community to help out with their CSA farm. Little Forrest Community is in the Eastern Townships near Dunham, which is kindof sortof near Cowansville. (You may just want to check google maps if you’re still lost). As usual, we will be biking there on Friday, helping out on the farm on Saturday, and biking back to Montreal on Sunday. We will be riding on Route Verte bike paths for most of the way, including one that runs along the Chambly canal, and passes by two picturesque forts. Our rain date is the following weekend, October 21st-23rd.

This trip should be undertaken by experienced cyclists only. Little Forrest Community is 110 kilometres away. Although the way is relatively flat, not all the paths and roads are paved. Please do not register for this trip unless you have completed one bike ride of 80 km or more in the last month.

Register for Trip 8

September Trip! Jardin de la Resistance is having their annual Harvest Party!

HELLO Bike2Farmers!

This is an announcement for the next Bike2Farm trip which is to Jardin de la Resistance.  Yeah Harvest Party!

We will bike down to their farm on Friday the 16th of September, and return on Sunday the 18th.

To register, click on the ‘Trip Listing and Registration’ page and click on the word: [Registration Open] fill out the boxes and I will get back to you soon.

Please note that so far this trip has no rain date… so start sun dances asap.  If you have any questions or concerns please email: bike2farm@gmail.com
Hope you can make it!

Tell your friends : )

Regards,

Graham

August Trip – Macdonald Student-run Ecological Gardens

HELLO Bike2Farmers!

This is an announcement for the next Bike2Farm trip.   It will be to a farm on the western tip of the Island of Montreal called Macdonald Student-run Ecological Gardens. The departure date is set for the Friday the 19th of August with a return on the Sunday the 21st of August.  We will be having a later departure time on Friday (say 4ish) so if you work during the day you could come on this one.  The farmers take Sundays off, so we will be returning in the morning.

Here is there website:  http://mseg.weebly.com/

Here is their address (well not exactly, but close):

21111 Lakeshore Road
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9

The distance is about 40km.

To register, click on the ‘Trip Listing and Registration’ page and click on the word: [Registration Open] fill out the boxes and I will get back to you soon.

Please note that so far this trip has no rain date as of this time… so start sun dances asap.  If you have any questions or concerns please email: bike2farm@gmail.com

Hope you can make it!

Tell your friends : )

Regards,

Graham

2011 First Trip!! Jardin de la Resistance is planting an Orchard!

HELLO Bike2Farmers!

This is an announcement for the first official Bike2Farm trip of 2011!!!  It will be to Jardin de la Resistance.  They are having a orchard planting party – in my books that is a gooood time.

We will bike down to their farm on Friday the 20th of May, and return on Sunday the 22nd.

To register, click on the ‘Trip Listing and Registration’ page and click on the word: [Registration Open] fill out the boxes and I will get back to you soon.

Please note that so far this trip has no rain date… so start sun dances asap.  If you have any questions or concerns please email: bike2farm@gmail.com
Hope you can make it!

Tell your friends : )

Regards,

Graham

Trip 4 Registration ReOPENED!

Last Friday’s weather was wet, gray, windy and generally unpleasant.  So the trip was canceled.

We had arranged a rain date with the farmers at La Terre Bleue (Jamie and Nora Quinn) and we are using it!

Check out the registration page to sign up!

I Hope you’ll come

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