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Location: Bell Manor Park, Bayside Lane in Etobicoke.
Directions: This community Garden is just a short walk away from the The Stonegate Community Health Centre, at 150 Berry Rd. The closest intersection is Parklawn and Berry Road (just north of the Queensway).
Accessibility: The garden is wheelchair, walker and cane accessible.
About our Garden: The Stonegate Community Health Centre supports a local community garden in Bell Manor Park. The community garden which is part of the health centre's Food Access Program addresses the following :
- The lack of space for growing food in this lower income neighbourhood where most residents live in apartments.
- An alterative food source for gardeners.
- Access to social interaction and engagement in community activities.
- Enables gardeners to connect with the many other cultural and family associations of growing food.
Bell Manor Community Garden gives local residents the chance to work their own small plot of land and grow their own fruits, herbs, vegetables and flowers, in a safe and secure community setting. Gardeners keep their plots from year to year, but vacancies do come up. At present the garden holds close to twenty community gardeners.
To learn more about the gardens, or to put your name on the waiting list for a garden plot, please call (416)231-7070 ext. 229.
Visits: To arrange a tour of the garden, please contact the Stonegate Community Health Centre at (416)231-7070 and inquire.
Programs: Garden programming takes places throughout the spring and summer months. Workshops and seminars and are held (weather permitting) in the garden during the summer months and indoors at the health centre, in the spring .
Please call us directly for more information about the Garden and Food Access Programming.
Contact info:
- Julia Graham, Community Health Worker,
- Stonegate Community Health Centre,
- 416)231-7070 ext. 229 ~
- julia.graham@stonegatechc.org
Website: www.stonegatechc.org
updated April 04, 2013
Content last modified on April 04, 2013, at 08:18 AM EST