Willow Creek Community Garden will hold a registration night later this month. (file photo/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

By Angela Brown

SIGN UP FOR GARDEN PLOT

Willow Creek Community Garden plans registration night

Apr 2, 2023 | 5:04 PM

People who want to sign up for a garden plot this year can attend the Willow Creek Community Garden Inc. registration night.

The event will take place at the Meadow Lake Library in the back room from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on April 27.

There is a nominal cost of about $20 to lease a garden plot, which helps recover some of the cost of the water delivery and tillage.

Willow Creek Community Garden coordinator Pat Morley said the fee also enables people to attend the year-round garden club’s seminars, workshops, tours, and social events.

“We try to make it a learning experience,” she said. “We want to encourage people to come out and learn how to garden and produce fresh fruit and vegetables. The biggest thing is to get people involved, outside, get fresh air and sunshine, and have a place to be able to do that.”

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(Submitted photo/Pat Morley)

The community garden is located between Seventh Avenue East and Ninth Avenue East, running along Sixth Street East, in Meadow Lake. The garden has 34 20 sq. ft. ground plots available.

“We divide them up,” Morley said. “Some people don’t want a full plot. We try to accommodate as many [people] as we can.”

The volunteer group also has seven plots with extra-high raised garden beds, to make it easier for people who have a hard time bending down to garden.

“We’re building more this spring, as soon as the weather permits,” Morley said. “We’re hoping to get another four.”

There are also seven medium-high raised bed gardens and three smaller-sized medium-high raised beds.

The community garden also contains a communal garden space for people to use who do volunteer work at the garden.

“That is [for] our fruit trees, our sorrel, our rhubarb, our strawberry boxes and our herbs, and bedding plants that get donated… We put them in spots that are for everybody to use,” Morley said.

She noted the community garden is not for people who walk in off the street to access and help themselves to the produce. People must be registered members or volunteers to use the garden.

The garden’s growing season runs from May to the end of September.

Morley said for people who don’t have a garden of their own at home, the community garden fills a need.

“[Some people] don’t have any place to plant anything,” she said. “So, it’s important to get people out and have a place to be able to get together, grow some fresh produce, build community, and be a part of a community project that does something good for the whole community.”

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