The Colwood Garden Society is a group of passionate and volunteer gardeners. We manage and maintain the Colwood Community Garden, located on Colwood City Hall property at 3300 Wishart Road. Garden plots are rented on an annual basis, and what you grow you eat (or eat what you grow).
The Society rents 65 of the 67 plots. Two plots are maintained by volunteers and the harvest is sent to Living Edge in Langford, a market style food bank for those in need.
A Short History
The Colwood Garden Society was formed in 2017, after several years of planning a community garden. The spring of 2018, shovels were finally put to the ground and we built the Colwood Community Garden at City Hall, and 16 garden plots were dug. The following spring we added another 30 or so, and two years later, finished building the garden with 67 garden plots.
Renting a Plot
Each renter is responsible for the maintenance of their plot, as well as several volunteer hours a year on different projects within the society, such as administration, maintaining the overall garden, fundraising, etc. The cost for annual rental is $45, plus a one-time membership fee of $10.
Colwood Garden Society member Barbara Sibbald inspects one of her sunflowers at the Colwood Community Garden in 2023. (Justin Samanski-Langille/Black Press file photo)