Community Gardens

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Community gardens are places where several people come together to grow their own food in a centralized community location. Typically, each gardener works their own plot to plant and grow produce while contributing to common goals of the shared space as established by the garden members. Community gardens are especially valuable in areas with high density housing, and may provide the only gardening space available in the area.

Prince George has two community gardens a public allotment style garden with 30-40 rental plots, and an agency-based garden where agencies work together to provide gardening opportunities for their clients.

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Queensway Garden

Queensway Garden is an inter-agency, and public allotment, community garden operated in Prince George. 

Agency based community gardens are unique projects that address immediate food needs while empowering individuals to access healthy foods through community projects like community kitchens or gardens. Agencies can support their clients, sometimes the most food insecure people in the community, to make change in their lives through coordinated client-centered programming. Agencies often bring clients to the garden as part of normal programming, and support them in gardening, teaching and learning skills side by side.

At the end of the gardening season, clients take home more that just fresh produce – they gain self-confidence, knowledge, skills and greater physical, social, and emotional health.

The garden also offers a number of individual plots for rent each season. You must be a member of the garden to harvest – you pick what you plant!

If I am a client of one of the Agencies at the Garden,
can I garden here too?

You should be able to arrange with the garden representative from that agency to participate in agency based gardening. Each agency has guidelines for participants to follow, and all gardeners are required to sign a formal gardening agreement.

Agencies that are Community Garden Partners in 2007 are:

• The Prince George Native Friendship Centre
• Carrier Sekani Family Services
• Aboriginal Infant & Family Development Program
• Carney Hill Neighbourhood Centre Society
• Northern Health Community Mental Health
• Children First

I am not a client of any of the agencies listed above.
Can I still garden here?

Yes! The Queensway Garden has a number of private rental plots available for $10 per season, and volunteer hours. Plots are 10 feet x 20 feet. Call Pat at 563-0858 for information or to rent a plot.

I work at an Agency that might be interested in gardening here as part of client programs. How can I find out more about the garden and partner responsibilities? We are always looking for partner agencies, since these agencies help to create sustainability of the garden. For more information on how your agency can become involved, call Danielle at 649-7072.

I think Community Gardens are great! How can I support them in our community?

First, you can rent a plot and garden for a season! If you are not able to commit to a plot rental, we are always looking for volunteers, tools in good condition, any gardening supplies (string, stakes, lumber, gloves, seeds, buckets), and often we have specific needs that change from season to season. To find out what we need and how you can help, call Danielle at 649-7072.

For information on the agency-based Queensway Garden
call Danielle at 649-7072

Wee Sprouts

Annual Garden Harvest

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For information on the Community Gardens
Prince George public allotment garden, call 564-3859.

Community Kitchens

Food Box Program

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