Community Gardens
Volunteers needed!
Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC) is looking for volunteers across the city to help coordinate community gardens! This role will act as a liaison between the Kingston Community Gardens Network coordinator and the garden group (which includes all members of a community garden).
Volunteers are responsible for:
- Signing a community garden partnership agreement with the City of Kingston.
- Ensuring the garden's use aligns with the Community Gardens Development and Operations Policy.
- Communicating and sharing updates with the garden members.
- Supporting garden members with the success of individual garden plots.
- Writing applications for annual garden grants over the winter.
- Writing impact reports at the end of the garden season.
Apply today
If you would like to volunteer for a community garden, please email Marie Bencze, Community Development Coordinator at KCHC at marieb@kchc.ca.
About the Kingston Community Garden Network
Community gardens provide a shared space to grow and harvest fruits and vegetables, herbs, flowers or native plants. We worked with community partners to create the Kingston Community Garden Network. This network helps make new community gardens on public or private land and keeps existing gardens in our city going strong.
Kingston Community Health Centres coordinates the Kingston Community Garden Network with support from the City of Kingston.
The Community Gardens program includes:
Growing annual and perennial food plants, medicinal plants and flowers
Planting Indigenous, cultural and native plants
Creating pollinator gardens
Establishing little forests
Growing orchards and edible forests with fruit trees, nut trees and shrubs
Designing landscapes with edible plants.
Who's listening
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MB
Email marieb@kchc.ca -
Phone 613-546-4291 Email BLeslie@CityOfKingston.ca
