Seeds Of Progress Community Garden: 2008
Visit: Seeds Of Progress Community Garden: The Early Years
Visitors are always welcome! Capital Families Association's Community Garden is located behind Pilgrim United Church (3319 Painter Road).
**This Community Garden is made possible because Pilgrim United Church has generously donated the use of its land. Thank you for helping our community, Pilgrim United Church!**
Thanks to a great response, there are no more garden plots left at this time for the 2008 growing season.
If you are still interested in a community garden plot, please contact the coordinators to be added to a list in the event a plot becomes available, and to better gauge the interest in community gardening.
For more information, please contact Maureen Cue at 479-1156
Loaded onto a 16-foot trailor, the Gardens in Motion display will be wheeling around the West Shore this summer - hopefully catching people's attention as it goes.
The trailer is large enough to cart it's own compost bin and containers for more plants when the season gets growing. Capital Families is looking for help to haul the garden to events. Anyone with a 3/4 tonne or better pickup truck is asked to call 391-4320. See www.capfamilies.org for more information.
For more information, please contact Jenny Luther at 474-0388, or David Stott at 391-4320 Ext. 364
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Room to take root
By Amy DoveGoldstream News Gazette
April 30 2008
Plots open in Colwood community garden
There is something relaxing about the community garden in Colwood.
"Even when the deer come and eat all my stuff it's still relaxing," said Betty Taylor with a laugh.
Taylor joined the garden 10 years ago when it was still a teaching garden. In exchange for a plot of land, garden tenants had to tend beds for the local food bank. It was a way of giving back for what you were getting, Taylor said. Two years ago the garden became primarily private beds.
"There is not much space to garden in apartment blocks," she said as her reason for getting involved. Taylor makes the bus trek two to three times a week because the work has a relaxing effect. The fact you can "graze" as you go doesn't hurt either, she said with a smile. Her plot is about four feet wide by 25 feet long. What grows inside it is limitless.
In the past she has grown peas, broccoli, zucchinis, swiss chard, lettuce and more. One year she even picked brussel sprouts two days before Christmas. Throughout the growing season, there is also access to communal raspberries, garlic and more.
There is necessary work to maintain the beds, some of which are raised, but it's rewarding, she said. "You get what you put in," Taylor said.
For the greenhorns, or black thumbs depending on how unsuccessful people start off, there is plenty of information in the garden. Charts are posted in the tool shed when to plant and perhaps more importantly, where. Roses love garlic but the aphids that eat the flowers sure don't, Taylor said as an example.
"There is always someone who will know something you don't," she said.
The garden is kid friendly and a great place for families, she said. It's so important children learn where their food comes from before it lands in the grocery store.
"Come to the garden - you'll have a whole other outlook on life," Taylor said.
Growing season gets into full swing in May and there are still a few plots open. Access to the garden costs $20 annually with a $10 deposit. That covers the cost of insurance, water and tools, all of which are provided.
The garden plots are located in the Seeds of Progress community garden behind Pilgrim United Church, 3319 Painter Rd. in Colwood. Of the 32 plots most of them are 100 square feet although there is some variety.
For more information contact Capital Families at 391-4320.
Visit: Seeds Of Progress Community Garden: The Early Years
