Welcome to the 2026 season!  Volunteers braved the icy weather recently for winter sowing. Winter sowing is the practice of planting seeds in translucent containers and leaving them outside in the snow…

Interested in volunteering at our garden? If you are new to the garden and want to receive emails about volunteer workshifts, please send an email to [email protected]. We work in…

In addition to our individual volunteers, we have been fortunate to have assistance from multiple corporate workteams again this year. Their organizations offer them time to work in the community…

Woof-Woof and Meoww! Our volunteers really enjoy greeting everyone’s fur babies when they walk through the garden. In their honour, we are accepting pet food donations to support the fur…

All winter, loNgtime volunteer Johnny keeps turning our compost. Even in the dead of winter, soil life lives on and is protected by the organic matter he adds. On behalf…

The City is expanding the garden and John McKenzie Parkette as a result of acquiring the neighbouring land at 37 Norton Avenue. The proposed design for the expansion area includes a pollinator garden,…

Our first volunteer work party of the 2025 season took place on Sunday, February 16th. A large group of volunteers braved knee high snow to winter sow cabbage, lettuce, leeks, kale,…

In addition to our 50+ strong individual volunteers who come out to work on weekends and weeknights, we were also aided this year by corporate teams who donated a morning…

We completed our final clean up of the 2024 garden, and then celebrated the season with our volunteers. Delectable dishes were contributed by volunteers, featuring garden produce where we could….

At Parkview Neighbourhood Garden, we split our produce between local food charities, and our volunteers and neighbours. Starting in May, we harvest directly for donation to local not-for-profit organizations such…