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Interested in starting a community garden this year? Learn about how your garden will address food insecurity in our city. Registration Form here.

Our ‘The Plot Thickens’ Community Gardening Workshop will give you a good start! It will be given by A Rocha Canada’s experienced gardening friends, partners and trained community organizers. Vancouver ‘Plot Thickens’ Poster, May 5th 2012

Our workshop covers: gathering your garden team, generating excitement about a community project, managing plots, gardening how-tos, facing challenges and more. Participants will receive a community gardening manual, monthly gardening emails, an online space to connect and a webpage for profiling your new community garden. Our goal is to partner with you and your Christian community as you develop a garden to support local food production and facilitate community outreach.

Organizational Partner:

City Gate Leadership Forum as the main Coordinator of the Christian Food Security Network in Metro Vancouver wants to help you connect your garden to local organizations who could benefit from sharing your produce harvests.

City Gate Leadership Forum exists to inform, equip, and coordinate organizations and leaders for the spiritual and social renewal of Metro Vancouver, envisioning a future where the church is a valued leader in fostering vibrant, sustainable cities.

Contact:  T 604 484 8629, office@cglf.ca

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- Sandy and Stacey from Peace Portal Alliance Church

For 2 years, a few of us dreamed about a vegetable garden on our church’s campus—after the 2-day seminar hosted at A Rocha called ‘The Plot Thickens,” we felt equipped and inspired to break ground.

Supplied with a generous donation of plants and seeds from local nursery West Coast Gardens, Shaun Gaynor, Stacy Dryfhout, Kim Martin, and Sandy Colero, together with a handful of other young adults at Peace Portal Alliance, built three experimental garden beds on June 1st in order to grow food for the local food bank.

The combination of tending the garden and working together has turned out to be a highlight of the summer for many of us—as the vegetables have grown and flourished, so have our friendships. Thus far, the Sources Food Bank in South Surrey has also been very ecstatic about our lettuce, spinach, onions, radishes, and cucumbers, treating these organic veggies like gold. And there’s so much more to come!

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Kingfisher Farm’s Community Shared Agriculture program in South Surrey produces over 8,000 pounds of organically-grown vegetables annually, with a portion going to low income families. Local food production is not only essential in building balanced, sustainable communities, but is also crucial for ensuring local food security and helping to alleviate poverty.

 

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