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On June 5th, the Cobourg Ecology Garden held their Spring Plant Sale, Yard Sale and Community Vegetable Garden Planting as a fundraiser for the garden.

Vicky Darbyshire was there selling her hand made soaps (www.soapstar.ca) for the Ecology Garden cause as well. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a walk through. It's at the foot of Hibernia St. @ the boardwalk in Cobourg.

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Apr 12, 2010 - 04:19 PM
By Tabitha Olliffe
COBOURG -- Residents can celebrate Earth Day with a traditional Sunrise Fire Circle.

The Cobourg Community Ecology Garden committee hosts an Earth Day Celebration at the Ecology Garden at the foot of Hibernia Street on Thursday, April 22 at sunrise. The celebration features a Sunrise Fire Circle that will be conducted by the Mississauga Ojibway of Alderville First Nation, Rice Lake. Cobourg poet Wally Keeler will recite his poem 'The Politics of Spring' at the celebration.

Everyone is welcome to join the event on April 22 at 6:30 a.m. at the Ecology Garden. For more information, contact Dilys Robertson at 905-373-7255 or dilysr@gmail.com

In addition to the celebration, Cobourg resident Victoria Darbyshire will offer soap bars and aromatic bath slats inspired by the scents and colours of the Ecology Garden. The lavender- and lilac-scented soap and salts contain natural ingredients that are eco-friendly and skin-friendly with profits going to the Ecology Garden.

Soaps and salts can be purchased at Peach's Market, 148 Third St., or online at www.soapstar.ca, For more information email soapstar.ca@gmail.com

About - The Cobourg Ecology Garden is almost 14 years old! As an initiative of the Cobourg Environmental Advisory Committee, sod was turned in 1996 on a plot of land owned by Legion Village. Shortly thereafter, the Town of Cobourg allowed use of additional land adjacent to the original site, which enabled the Garden to double in size. By employing principles of organic gardening, the Ecology Garden sets forth practices which result in a dynamic force becoming fixed; a healthy interrelationship of plants and environments is set in balance and is maintained without the use of toxic substances or fertilizers providing an oasis of native and naturally grown plant material for all (bugs, butterflies, birds and humans included.