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.
COMMUNIQUÉ de presse suivre
Ongoing, updated info about visiting Just Food Community Farm
Rules change throughout each season. Please check back regularly.
Each person visiting the Just Food Community Farm is responsible for knowing and following the rules.
Guest visitors to the farm visit at your own risk, and if not following the rules will be considered trespassing and asked to leave.
Rules for visiting Just Food Community Farm
- All current COVID rules must be followed including 2 metres distance and masked when this is not possible.
- This is not a dog-park. Dogs are not automatically allowed on the property and Just Food is not responsible for problems arising from dogs on the property.
- No dogs allowed in areas marked prohibited. Note: Areas can change year to year and longstanding farmers are allowed dogs in prohibited areas, and will have ribbon on their leash.
- Any dogs must be leashed around ALL other active garden areas, noting new North end garden site. Dogs are prohibited from all garden fields.
- ALL feces must be removed off the property immediately.
- All dogs must be under instant control at all times, and must not negatively affect other people, dogs, animals, wildlife, vehicles, etc. If not, your dogs are not welcome.
- No one can drive on the farm roads (past the parking lot) unless in a vehicle registered with a farm project on site, with a vehicle permit showing in the window.
- No one can bike through the property (new rule, given 2020 level and speed of bike traffic) as too many children, dogs, people and vehicles. You can walk your bike through the farm when visiting.
- Rules posted on all signs on the farm must be followed.
- Farm gate is closed to vehicles every evening and does not open at a regular time.
- Open Hours for walkers change and in part, reflect daylight hours.
- Current hours for walkers: 6:30am-8:00pm
- Hours between May 1 – September 30: 6:30am-9:00pm
This is a functional farm, nursery and program area.
Just Food staff and Board, as the lease-holders for the property, are responsible for stewarding the land and since inception, have strived to maintain a vibrant, inclusive community space to meet multiple interests.
In order to do so, and as the lease-holders, we have the only say on who can access the farm at any point.
Here’s to a vibrant, safe space for diverse activities for all people engaged at the JFCF!
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS – How to Start a Community Garden
Join us on June 3 or June 5, 2021 and learn about the steps involved in starting a community garden. How to search for land, what is essential when starting a community garden, the support available, tips for organizing and much more!
Suitable for new gardens, or existing gardens looking to onboard new volunteer coordinators.
The attendance of at least one garden coordinator (or a member of the garden who is working on the proposal) at a How to Start a Community Garden workshop is a requirement in order to apply for funding through the Community Garden Development Fund (CGDF). The CGDF applicant must have attended a workshop in the past 3 years, as criteria and processes have changed throughout the years, and we encourage more than one to attend at a time.
TWO IDENTICAL SESSIONS – CHOOSE EITHER ONE
WEEKDAY EVENING SESSION: THURSDAY, June 3, 7:00–9:00 pm.
WHERE: ONLINE ZOOM MEETING
RSVP: CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER
WEEKEND AFTERNOON SESSION: Saturday, June 5, 4:00–6:00 pm.
WHERE: ONLINE ZOOM MEETING
RSVP: CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER
FOR QUESTIONS please contact Sun Shan at communitygardening@justfood.ca.
