The Community Gardening Network of Ottawa
Community Gardening Network of Ottawa is an information and resource-sharing network that supports the sustainable development of community gardens within the city.
As of spring 2007, Just Food is the new location of the CGN.
The central activities of the CGN are:
• to assist two or more community gardens to get established each year, including building skills and capacity through our “How to Start a Community Garden” workshops and resources
• to work with private and public landowners to increase access to land for community gardens in the city;
• to keep food and gardening information flowing between Just Food, the community garden coordinators, and the gardeners;
• to build gardening skills in the city through our beginner level gardening workshops;
• to encourage food preservation of the summer’s harvest through our canning and food preservation workshops;
• to raise awareness in the city about community gardening through online newsletters and special events such as our Urban Agri Bike Tour;
• and to celebrate the season through a harvest party.
Download your copy of the GARDEN GUIDE here!
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The Garden Guide is a perfect resource for the novice gardener! This guide will share with you everything you need to know about getting started in the garden this summer. Happy growing!
Community Gardens across Ottawa
Bethany Church Community Garden
382 Centrepointe Drive (just off Baseline Rd.)
Contact: Colette Cardinal 613-721-5231
colette_cardinal@hotmail.com
25 plots
The Bytowne Urban Gardens (BUGS)
BUGS garden members are moving to this new location as their garden undergoes construction with the development of CCOC Housing:
Glebe Memorial Park, 75 Glendale Ave.
Contact: Loïc Olivier 613-233-4443 ext. 3000
bugscoordinator@gmail.com
http://www.bugsottawa.ca
32 plots
The Carlington Community Garden
900 Merivale Rd. (in former schoolyard)
Contact: David Green
egad56@hotmail.com
155 Plots
Chateau Donald Community Garden
only available to the residents of 251 Donald St. (off Vanier Parkway)
Contact: Marsha King mking101@rogers.com
12 plots
Children's Garden at Robert Leggett Park
Old Ottawa East, in Robert Legget Park at the corner of Main and Clegg
Contact: Rebecca Aird, 233-6286, childrensgarden@sustainablelivingottawaeast.ca
www.sustainablelivingottawaeast.ca
Debra Dynes Family House Community Garden
Debra Avenue (near the corner of Eiffel) in the backyard of Debra Dynes Family House
Contact: Barbara Carroll 613-224-3824
debradynes@on.aibn.com
1 communal plot
Friendship Community Garden
1240/1244 Donald St
Contact: Michelle Smulders 613-741-3843
michelle.smulders@eorc-gloucester.ca
12 plots
Glebe Organic Vegetable Garden (GO-VEG)
Mutchmor Public School
Contact: Lynda Hall (Canadian Organic Growers, Growing Up Organic Project Co-ordinator)
613-244-4000 x 3
Communal teaching garden for children.
Gloucester Allotment Gardens
Outside off Anderson Rd. behind Regional Detention Centre, and inside the Blackburn between the Hamlet and Blackburn Bypass
Contact: Irene Harrison gaga@ncf.ca
225 plots
Jardin Communautaire Orleans Community Gardens
3350 St Joseph Boulevard
Contact: Val Griffin 613 824 2266
www.jcocg.org
plantcycle.org@gmail.com
80 plots
Kilborn Allotment Garden
Kilborn and Haig
Contact: Kevan Shantz 613-247-4846
kevan.shantz@ottawa.ca
www.kilborngardens.ca
355 plots
Lowertown/Basseville Community Garden
40 Coburg
Near the corner of Cobourg and St. Patrick
Contact: Marie Christine Gauthier 613-789-3930
mcgauthier@crcbv.ca
6 plots
Michele Heights Community Garden
2955 Michele Dr.
West of Carling and Richmond: Michele Place
Contact: Sherril Noble michele_ht_nw@yahoo.com
19 plots
Nanny Goat Hill Community Garden
NE corner of Bronson and Laurier
Contact: Rosemary Taylor 613-237-4777
80 plots
Nepean Allotment Gardens
Viewmount between Merivale and Fisher
Contact: Mike Chebbo
mchebbo@gmail.com
200 plots
Ottawa East Community Garden
St. Paul’s University
Contact: Mélanie Matieyshen
mmatieyshen@gmail.com
http://ottawaeastcommunitygarden.blogspot.com/
Sandy Hill Community Garden
Located in Dutchie's Hole Park, south of Strathcona Park and south of the intersection of Mann Ave. and Range Rd.
Contact: Trevor Haché 613-789-0604
E-mail: sandyhillcommunitygarden@gmail.com
Website: http://sandyhillcommunitygarden.blogspot.com/
16 plots
Strathcona Heights Community Garden
Sandy Hill near Queensway and Lees Ave. off Wiggins Private
Contact: Alastaire Henderson
ej923@freenet.carleton.ca
40 plots
Sweet Willow Community Garden
Near the corner of Rochester and Primrose at 31 Rochester St.
Contact: Hilary McGregor
hilarious57@hotmail.com
12 plots