GUERILLA GARLIC GARDENERS

Raised Bed Gardens for Single-Parent Families in St. John’s

With funding raised online in the Fall of 2021, the Guerilla Garlic Gardeners in partnership with the Single Parents Association of Newfoundland and Labrador worked with single parents in St. John’s to create raised bed gardens for home food production.

In all, ten raised beds were built in neighbourhoods across the city, then filled with rich organic soil and planted to a selection of lettuce, carrots, peas, beans, kale, squash and tomatoes.    Residents worked alongside volunteers to achieve this.  One bed was created behind the Single Parents Association, to show the families that stop there what is possible.

We want to acknowledge the generosity and support of Luke Janes (Firewood Factory), John Frecker (Holland Nursery), Peter and Jackson (Gaze Seeds) and the management and staff of Canadian Tire (Hebron Way) for their support and donations of plants and seeds! More than a dozen volunteers helped with the work.

With support from the City of St. John’s and other local groups, we hope to continue to develop and expand this project to include even more families.

This project has been supported by Food Producers Forum with funding from more than 35 local and international donors.   Anyone wanting to help move this forward can do so by contacting us by email at: foodproducersforum@gmail.com.