Gibbs Road Community Garden:
This newest garden (2007) is located on Gibbs Road West and has been leased to COCG by Faith Lutheran Church. This garden was supported by a Community Action for Health Grant.
Westbank Towne Centre Community Garden:
This garden will be starting up sometime in 2008. This garden will be built in partnership with the Regional District of Central Okanagan. Funding will be contributed by RDCO from a Provincial Spirit Grant and by COCG from a Community Action Health Grant (2007). This garden will be the biggest of all the CG sites thus far.
Cawston Avenue Community Garden:
The Cawston garden is located adjacent to the Unitarian Church, north of downtown Kelowna. The Church kindly donated the land; the City of Kelowna provided the funding and numerous businesses donated or reduced the costs of most of the materials. This garden has ten 4’ X 4’ raised beds and three wheelchair accessible boxes. In addition to the shed, compost bins and rain barrels on-site, Cawston also offers a ‘free food’ box. This box is planted and cared for by the gardeners with the resulting produce being available to anyone who needs it.
Hartman Road Community Garden:
The Hartman Road Community Garden has thirty-four plots (10’ X 20” and 10’ X 13’). The site is located on land donated by the City of Kelowna Parks Department. Community volunteers, including the youth from the Rutland Boys & Girls club, built the Hartman site in May 2005. Funding for this project was generously provided by grants from the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, the Diggers and Weeders, Canadian Federation of University Women and the Central Okanagan Foundation. On-site there are areas dedicated to the food bank and two raised beds for wheelchair gardeners. Compost bins, rain barrels and several picnic tables are also available for the gardeners’ use.
Barlee Road Community Garden:
Barlee Road Community Garden has 33 plots and is located on City of Kelowna land at 1898 Barlee Rd in the Springfield Road area near Orchard Plaza. The garden design incorporates many of the same features as at Hartman Road, including large plots, a tool shed, compost bins, water access, plus a shady-grove for picnics and park-like space for dog walking.
Winfield Community Garden:
Lake Country gardeners now have a community garden on land provided by Paul and Judy Shoemaker of Nurturing Nature Organics. The Winfield garden, located at 11187 Bottom Wood Lake Rd, offers 40 large plots of varying sizes. Shed, tools, water access and compost bins have also been incorporated into the garden design.
