The Parkallen Community Garden
we've been digging it in Edmonton since Summer 2011 @ 65th Ave & 111th Street
The Parkallen Community Garden is entering it’s 11th growing season in 2022 and needs a director.
The Community Garden Director organizes planting, gardening, and harvesting activities in the garden.
The director is supported by the past directors, a liaison who works with the Parkallen Community League, and the regular and casual community gardeners in Parkallen.
Are you interested in learning more about this volunteer opportunity? email: garden@parkallen.ca
Bring a picnic and a blanket to the Parkallen Community Garden on June 15, 1 p.m.
Rink Mural Part II Workshop at 2 p.m. in the Parkallen Community Hall
Garden Days is Canada’s largest garden party, a celebration of the vital role of gardening in our communities and lives. It begins on National Garden Day, Saturday June 15th, 2019 and continues for nine days. Promoted by the Canadian Garden Council, Garden Days encourages local gardens, garden centers, horticulture societies, garden clubs and others to create special reasons for people to visit a garden. Last year, there were hundreds of activities across the country!
This year, we’re jumping on the bandwagon! Please join us on Saturday, June 15th at 1pm to celebrate National Garden Day in the Parkallen Community Garden. Bring a picnic and blanket to enjoy the good company of neighbours, new and seasoned gardening enthusiasts alike. We invite you to enjoy a glass of lemonade and tour the community garden to learn and share in your knowledge and passion for gardens and gardening.
Tools will be available for those that want to pull a weed or water some tender shoots as our garden landscape will just be getting exciting. Pick up a garden brochure or chat with a community garden member to learn how you can be involved!
For our little people (and those like me that just love a good story), we’ll also have a big basket of garden story books available. There’s nothing like laying back on a picnic blanket in the shade with grass between your toes, while you listen to the Tale of Peter Rabbit and other literary delights.
Looking to leave a permanent fingerprint? The rink mural is being extended to the south side of the rink to become a backdrop for the garden. A workshop to create the initial drawings will be hosted in the community hall at 2pm. Come and add your art to the garden!
See you there!
— Sara Wipperman
Gardeners, there are two planting bees schedule on May Long Weekend, the traditional “get your garden in” weekend in Edmonton, when we consider “all danger of frost to have past.”
Help seed the garden
Saturday May 18, 2-4 p.m.
and/or
Sunday May 19, 2-4 p.m.
If you can’t make either date, you’re still welcome to tend and harvest the PCG throughout the 2019 garden season.
TWO GARDEN MEETINGS
Afternoon of Saturday April 27th
Come celebrate and support our garden
Gardener Welcoming Gathering with Snacks
Time: 2-3 p.m.
at the garden south side of the rink
To welcome all those who think they may be interested in helping plant and/or maintain the garden this year and talk about our garden plans, and introduce newcomers to our garden.
Annual General Meeting 3-4 p.m.
Time: 3-4 p.m.
at the Garden OR the location will be posted on the garden shed
Come to listen or join in on a discussion on how our garden is operated. We will be reviewing garden roles, how we communicate, projects and programs opportunities.
At the Community Hall
Tuesday Mornings 8-9 a.m.
Wednesday evenings 6-8 p.m.
And Sundays mornings 8-10 a.m.
…unless otherwise posted on the shed door
The Parkallen Community Garden has a new leader: Christine Watts. All ages and abilities are welcome to meet and garden with Christine at directed gardening bees on Saturdays, 2-4 p.m. and on Wednesday Evenings, 7-8 p.m.
As always, visitors are welcome anytime and self-directed gardening is encouraged. Pull some weeds, plant (and label) something, harvest a handful of something to munch on the spot or for your dinner. See what’s coming up.
Looks for the cheery bulbs planted by the Brownies in 2015 and 2016. We’re still growing in 2017.
Because gardens are for peas and love.
From our April 22, 2016 meeting where we discussed what worked last year, what didn’t, what we loved and what we liked, emerged this 2016 Growing Plan:
Marlene Wurfel attended the 2015 Edmonton Federation of Community League’s Showcase Gala this summer to accept a spotlight award on behalf of the Parkallen Community Garden and the Parkallen Community League.
The all-ages gardening projects at the Parkallen Community Garden were 1 of 5 outstanding projects showcased by the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues at their gala. The showcase included a story by CTV News’ Dez Melenka.
The Parkallen Community Garden