Why we started a Community Garden…
7 Benefits of a Community Garden:
- Creates community by bringing people together to share their knowledge and skills for a greater purpose.
- Maintains people’s connection with the natural world, especially as small space living becomes more common.
- Increases awareness of sustainable growing practices such as organic gardening.
- Provides people with an opportunity for food self-sufficiency.
- Helps reduce global footprints.
- Increases personal health and wellbeing from physical exercise and social interaction.
- Provides individuals, families, and shelters with quality, local food.
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The Colwood Garden Society operates with the full support of the City of Colwood under a lease agreement. They graciously donated the land at Colwood City Hall. We are a not-for-profit, registered under the Societies Act of British Columbia.
Membership is open to Colwood and Westshore residents only.