“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
~ Mother Teresa
Food for Thought, S/WR FAC first Community Garden was planned on May 2013 and saw the light last Friday September 13, 2013.
Thanks to Rick’s engineering planning (from Semiahmoo Food Network), Cinthia and her extraordinary team from Can You Dig It and dozens of S/WR FAC volunteers, the new Food for Thought Garden is now ready at the new Sources Food Bank.
50% of the plots will be growing fresh produce for Sources Food Bank. The other 50% has already been assigned to the first number of applicants who have added their names earlier to the waiting list when the garden was first announced. Priority was given to residents of the area (walking distance) and emphasizing multicultural and intergenerational participation.
Let’s make this a reality in all Surrey/White Rock neighbourhoods!
Do you want to start a community garden?
If you are:
- Part of a committed group of at least people living in the same area
- A non profit organization
You may be eligible to apply for the city of Surrey “Started Community Garden” application: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/13854.aspx
Other ways you can start a community garden:
- Are you part of a school (staff, PAC member or student? Does the school have unused land?
- Are you part of a congregation (church, temple, mosque, etc.)?
- Does your neighbourhood have unused land? Could you approach the landlord for a lease agreement? (Landlords and business may receive a tax credit when their land is assigned to community projects. They receive the double benefit of having somebody watching and caring for their land “for free” while the agreement stays in place)
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
~ Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals