‘How to Start a Community Garden’ Workshops
Join us to learn about the steps you need to take to start a community garden in the Ottawa region. Learn everything you need to know to make your community garden a reality, including:
- How to search for land
- How to access City and NCC land
- Information on garden design, building, leadership, & community outreach
- How to apply for funding through the Community Gardening Development Fund (CGDF)
- Important tips for long-term success!
Suitable for new gardens, or existing gardens looking to onboard new volunteer coordinators.
No experience required – simply your passion for local and organic food security!
Next Workshop Date:
November 8th 2023, 6:30pm-8:30pm
IMPORTANT NOTE: Attending a How to Start a Community Garden workshop is a requirement in order to apply for funding through the Community Garden Development Fund (CGDF).
If you live outside Ottawa – you are most welcome to join anyway, as the information you will learn at this workshop can be applied to any community garden project!
Please contact cgnstudent@justfood.ca for more info or to register for an upcoming workshop.
We look forward to seeing you at our interactive workshops!
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is offered in English. If you are interested in attending this workshop in French, please get in touch so we can let you know when a date is scheduled. Thank you!
Upcoming Gardening Workshops | Learn Through Virtual and In-Person Gardening Workshops and Resources
Click to see details below:
1. Upcoming Gardening Workshops
2. Just Food Gardening Basics – Free Recorded Workshops
3. Free Garden Guides for Ottawa in English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic
1. Upcoming Gardening Workshops
Our goal is to enable as many gardeners as possible to grow food successfully in the region. We invite all growers to join our workshops. All facilitators are experienced growers who have teaching experiences and understand growing conditions in the region.
2. Just Food Gardening Basics – Free Recorded Workshops
Gardening Basics brought to you by Community Gardening Network at Just Food, for home gardeners or community gardeners alike.
This series aims to cover every aspect of gardening, from starting seeds to growing in smaller and larger spaces, and is taught by experienced gardeners from the Ottawa region.
These free workshops and slides can be accessed HERE.
Topics include:
- Urban Organic Vegetable and Herb Gardening – Container and Small Space Gardening
- Indoor Seed Starting
- Grow Vegetables and Herbs in Your Backyard, Front yard or Community Garden plot
- Natural Pest Control for a Healthy Organic Garden
- Critter Management
- Ottawa Seed Library Presents: How to Clean your Seeds Workshop
3. Free Garden Guides for Ottawa
Available in five languages! And YES by all means share them!
CGN Garden Guide – English (pdf, 2.5 MB)
Le guide du jardinier – French (pdf, 2.2 MB)
Guía para huertos – Spanish (pdf, 2.1 MB)
دليل البستن ة – Arabic (pdf 2.4 MB)
渥太华菜园指南 – Mandarin (pdf 2.5 MB)
HAPPY GARDENING!
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS 2022 – How to Start a Community Garden
Join us and learn about the steps involved in starting a community garden. Learn everything you need to know to make your dream community garden a reality, including:
- How to search for land
- Tips on garden design, building, leadership, & community outreach
- How to apply for funding through the Community Gardening Development Fund (CGDF)
- Important tips for long-term success!
Suitable for new gardens, or existing gardens looking to onboard new volunteer coordinators.
No experience required – simply your passion for local and organic food security!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Attending a How to Start a Community Garden workshop is a requirement in order to apply for funding through the Community Garden Development Fund (CGDF).
NEXT SESSION: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 from 6-8pm (2 hours)
WHERE: ONLINE ZOOM MEETING.
TO REGISTER or if you have any questions please contact communitygardening@justfood.ca
We look forward to seeing you at this interactive workshop!
City Council declares 2022 as the Year of the Garden in Ottawa in time to celebrate 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Community Gardening Network
Today, City of Ottawa Council declared 2022 as the Year of the Garden in Ottawa, as part of Canada’s Year of the Garden 2022, organized by Gardens Canada, to celebrate today’s vibrant garden culture, and create important legacies for a sustainable future.
Click here to read the official Motion passed today by the City of Ottawa.
Every one of us at Just Food is thrilled to celebrate 2022 as both the Year of the Garden and Just Food’s 25th year of engagement and development in the community!
Community gardens were declared Essential Food Services at the height of the pandemic in April 2020 as they served to support food security and reduce social isolation, and gardens are increasingly recognized as being crucial components of socially equitable and ecologically sustainable communities. Gardens contribute innumerable benefits to individual and public health and wellbeing, and make for safer and more interconnected communities.
We encourage everyone to celebrate the Year of the Garden in your own community gardens, and we hope this gives your team good notice to think about how you may do so over the winter.
Many thanks to each and every one of you who continue to play such an important role in creating and maintaining the flourishing gardens that make up the growing mosaic of food and beauty across our communities!
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30, 2021
Shared Resources
Ressources partagées pour 30 septembre
Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation
Nourish – Food is our medicine:
https://www.nourishhealthcare.ca/food-is-our-medicine-landing-page
Food is Our Medicine is designed to introduce health care professionals and leaders to new and different ways of understanding the complex relationships between Indigenous foodways, reconciliation, healing and health care.
Food Secure Canada article (2015):
Food as a Weapon in the Residential School System
https://foodsecurecanada.org/residential-schools-and-using-food-weapon
L’Alimentation utilisée comme une arme dans les pensionnats autochtones
https://foodsecurecanada.org/fr/alimentation-pensionnat-autochtone
16 Resources to help Settlers Understand and Advance Indigenous Reconciliation:
https://charityvillage.com/16-resources-to-help-settlers-understand-and-advance-indigenous-reconciliation/
Reconciliation Education:
https://www.reconciliationeducation.ca/ (English)
https://www.reconciliationeducation.ca/francais (Français)
Marking the National Day – (September 29):
Souligner la Journée nationale – (29 Septembre):
https://csps-efpc.gc.ca/events/national-day-truth-reconciliation/index-eng.aspx (English)
https://csps-efpc.gc.ca/events/national-day-truth-reconciliation/index-fra.aspx (Français)
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR): https://nctr.ca/
Le Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation (CNVR): https://nctr.ca/?lang=fr
Circles of Reconciliation:
https://circlesforreconciliation.ca/new-resources/
One Day’s Pay
https://www.onedayspay.ca/
New Funds for Outdoor Community Hub at the Just Food Community Farm
The Canadian Government —via the Canada Community Revitalization Fund— along with co-funding partners at the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard, Just Food, City of Ottawa Rural Affairs and NCC have funded new outdoor community spaces, including a large pavilion and balcony, as well as a four-season, geothermal greenhouse, at the Just Food Community Farm. The accessible, open-air balcony and covered pavilion, along with the demonstration greenhouse, will immediately create important multi-use spaces, to bring community together safely, provide program/meeting space for diverse groups, permanent home for a weekly farmers’ market, and education/demonstration spaces.
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