Our Orchard People
Suz and Chad have been PNG volunteers for five years, and dedicated their time to taking care of our berries and fruit trees. When they wandered through the garden five…
Starbucks Thank You
Thank you to Starbucks Canada for your recent contributions to PNG! This awesome group of Starbucks Canada store and district managers came to help with spring cleanup, picking up stones,…
New Season!
Spring is here, and volunteer work events are up and running! To visit our events page and learn more about upcoming work events, click here.
End of 2022 Season
Our last volunteer event in the garden was October 30, 2022. We harvested our remaining jerusalem artichokes and prepared our garlic for fall planting. We ended with a celebration pot…
Farewell, Dianne McIntyre
On June 17, 2022, we lost a member of the Parkview Neighbourhood Garden. Today, we celebrate Dianne McIntyre’s life and contributions. Her many loving friends will remember Dianne for her…
Starbucks Thank You
Big thank-you to our neighbourhood Starbucks location at Yonge and Parkhome for saving up and donating coffee grounds to our garden, as part of their Grounds for the Garden program….
Garlic’s Epic Journey to The Table
It takes 9 months of work to get garlic to the table. We plant in October, weed and water and protect it until July, harvest it, cure it and then…
Gardening in the Desert
By Sushila Tellis, Parkview Neighbourhood Garden Volunteer I watched my dad gardening, planting vegetables from seed, and growing flower plants. You could say what’s so unusual about this? It was…
How the Pandemic Affected PNG
By: Nan Davey The COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges to PNG. To begin with, the 2020 season got a late start. The stable (our toolshed) was marked with a notice…