Chatham-Kent Community

Gardens Program
Text Box: “Growing Communities, One Garden at a Time”

Neighbours gardening

together create healthy neighbourhoods.

About Chatham-Kent Community Gardens

Food Link Chatham Kent Community  Gardens are committed to providing the necessary land, education, tools and seeds to allow the citizens of Chatham-Kent, through their own efforts, to have access to safe, nutritious and appetizing fruits and vegetables.  There are currently 8 community gardens in Chatham-Kent, our goal is to place gardens in all  23 of Chatham-Kent’s communities.

 

Community gardens, often called urban

gardens, are shared plots within an urban or neighbourhood setting.  Gardeners share tools, knowledge and labour to produce food for themselves and others.  There are an estimated 18,000  community gardens throughout  Canada and the United States.  The  Foodlink Chatham-Kent Community Gardens  began in 2006 in Chatham with one garden, has blossomed to eight gardens, and continues to grow as knowledge of this  valuable and dynamic resource increases.

 

Gardeners may garden communally or ask for an allotment for themselves, their family or a group to work together.  All gardeners sign a code of conduct.

 

Community Gardens benefits include:

 

· Relief to home economies by helping people provide some of their own groceries

· Exercise, fresh air and stress relief

· Stronger, healthier neighbourhoods through the interaction of neighbours

· A cleaner, greener environment by reducing food miles, teaching sustainable gardening methods and greening unused spaces

· Job skills, the ability to grow food is a real and practical skill

 

 

 

 

 

 

United Way Community Resource Centre

425 McNaughton Avenue West

Chatham, ON

N7M 5K8

To contact us:

Phone: 519-354-0430

Fax: 519-354-9511

E-mail: ckcommunitygardens@yahoo.com

Where are the Gardens?

 

Chatham

 

Brain Injury Association of Chatham-Kent

9 Maple Leaf Drive

 

Christian Labour Association of Canada

455 Keil Drive South

(at the corner of Park Avenue West)

 

Living Faith Community Church

530 Victoria Ave.

 

Ontario Early Years

215 Murray St.

 

Dresden

 

Park St. Place

650 Park St.

 

Tilbury

 

St. Francis Xavier Church

32 Canal St. West

 

Wallaceburg

 

First Baptist Church

99 Thomas St.

 

Salvation Army Store

600 Lowe St.