Our Neighbourhood Garden Blog

February 2012; after a long hiatus while we worked on our own individual gardens, we are now planning another Community Garden in Dundas; this one is intended to grow food for the Dundas food bank, as well as for garden participants.  We are working with one of the Service Clubs in Dundas to provide funding for fencing and equipment. If you are interested in working with us on this, please Contact Us.

Thursday June 3rd, 2010:  I passed by the garden off of Victoria Street to see how it was coming.  So far a bunch of fun veggie seedlings have been planted by the children, including tomatoes, pumpkins, cabbage, cucumber, carrots, beans, winter squash, butternut squash, chives and more.  The rain this week is helping everything in Dundas grow. Everything looks to be healthy and thriving.  Not much to see in the large beds yet ...

Monday, May 17, 2010: Ground breaking day has finally arrived.  Jim brought 4 wooden frames he built to make raised beds.  The kids from Katimavik dug the sod out from under these then added free soil to top them up.  The ladies at Today's Family have connections!  Two other long beds were made sans frames.

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Background

Dundas in Transition is collaborating with Knox Presbyterian Church and Today's Family Child Care to develop a shared neighbourhood garden, with a twist.

Rather than offering an allotment garden, we are partnering with a few other local groups to create a shared garden that will benefit the wider community.

Knox Church, Today’s Family day care and Dundas in Transition — with fantastic help from the Katimavik program broke ground on the first local garden project at the Melville Street church on Monday May 17, 2010 at 9:00 am.

The Knox garden will meet the needs of several local groups.

Today’s Family is teaching the kids about growing veggies, the congregation at Knox is interested in having a vegetable garden and will pair members of the congregation with the children, and Dundas in Transition wants to promote community vegetable gardens and local food.

At least 20 per cent of what is grown in the Knox garden will be donated to the Dundas Salvation Army Food Bank.

See more details in articles in the Dundas Star News: