Healthy work, healthy play

Allard Street Garden Program 2006

Our Values Helping people to help themselves. Converting vacant land into productive community vegetable gardens. Land stewardship. Providing accurate and timely information. Team work, cooperation, and networking. Lifelong learning. Self-reliance. Recycling and conservation. Environmentally-friendly gardening practices.

Our garden features raised beds and planter boxes, a mini fruit orchard, a garden shed that provides participants with tools and supplies, and a compost demonstration site. Our colorful shade structure offers welcome relief from the sun and a perfect spot for our monthly potluck Socials and meetings. Our Garden has been extended to meet the needs of our 80+ gardeners who pay $20 annually to rent a garden plot.

Having again received numerous awards and commendations for the Garden’s commitment to organic gardening practices such as composting, water conservation, and natural insect and disease control as well as community building through horticulture, our membership encourages the general public to visit the garden between the hours of 8 am-8 pm, April through October, and meet our gardeners. We continue to offer a children’s “Grow up Green” summer gardening program in July and August, educational talks on organic gardening, and environmental stewardship and lots of humor, to boot.

Become “tilthy rich” and get your fingers dirty at the Allard Street Community Garden. If you know of an individual who is interested in having his or her name added to our waiting list, signing up for a guided tour or who requires more information, please contact:

Suzanne Hanna at 759-2893

We extend a special thanks to Joanne Pearson at the Sault Housing Corporation for providing a site for our March Spring Registration meeting for new gardeners and to Community Living Algoma for photocopying our garden handbooks as an in-kind donation. We welcome the Red Cross Garden Program participants and wish them every success.

Suzanne Hanna, Garden Coordinator

All meetings will be at the Red Cross building at 12 noon.