After the 10 am service on Sunday, August 3rd, we will visit the Shelbourne Community Kitchen Garden behind South Island Centre, the "Cedar Hill Garden" as the Kitchen calls this garden. We will have our coffee time there and enjoy a tour of the garden.
Designed by TOPSOIL Innovative Urban Agriculture, the Cedar Hill Garden site is made up of 250 geo-textile growing containers. This adaptive gardening approach is high production, but low-impact and provides gorgeous seasonal produce within an urban setting. This garden site is located just across the street from the Kitchen. Along with production to support programs, the Cedar Hill Garden is a site for community events and educational workshops focused on learning skills that can be applied to home gardens.
The Shelbourne Community Kitchen gardens (the Cedar Hill Garden and the Garden at Omnivore Acres) help to supply fresh, high quality seasonal produce to the Kitchen’s Pantry and Food Skills Programs. Led by experienced green thumb volunteers and Canada Summer Jobs students, these welcoming sites offer hands-on opportunities to reconnect with the land and the food we eat. Through the Garden Programs, the Kitchen hosts a variety of workshops, tours, farm gleaning opportunities, and educational resources to their members to promote food growing at home.
Read more at the Shelbourne Community Kitchen website (https://www.shelbournecommunitykitchen.ca/gardening/)