Created in 2009, Oak Street Garden is a community hub created by folks at Loving Spoonful. The garden is welcoming to all, implementing non-hierarchal organizational practices with consensus-based decision-making processes. The garden includes plots for individual use and common areas for community gatherings. The common areas include a Children’s Garden, a Tasting Garden, a Permanent Crop section and the Oak Street Food Forest. Each of these sections is tended by groups of volunteers. Oak Street Garden is situated on an unused road allowance in the Kingscourt area, on the corner of Oak Street and Brant Avenue, west of Victoria Street, and north of 3rd Avenue.
In 2011, urban gardener Tim Lyon initiated the Market Sharing program. He provides both formal and informal education about organic and urban gardening to students, including people from Keys Employment, and inmates at the local prisons. Garden members also teach workshops. Topics include medicinal herbs, composting, among others. Future plans include growing plants used for dyeing fibre and hosting community art projects.
In 2011, urban gardener Tim Lyon initiated the Market Sharing program. He provides both formal and informal education about organic and urban gardening to students, including people from Keys Employment, and inmates at the local prisons. Garden members also teach workshops. Topics include medicinal herbs, composting, among others. Future plans include growing plants used for dyeing fibre and hosting community art projects.
Telltales Media, Introduction to Oak Street Garden
Telltales Media, Tree Guilds with Joyce Hostyn
Quilt designed and created by garden member Elaine Foreman
