EcoHouse Garden Programs

The EcoHouse Community garden is home to approximately 20 garden plots with a combination of raised beds, wheelchair-accessible beds, and in-ground beds available for rent each year. New gardeners are welcome to join the waitlist throughout the year. If a plot becomes available, we will contact you in April or May with information on joining and the annual rental fee. For more information or to be added to our waitlist, please email garden@greenventure.ca or call 905-540-8787.

 

A community garden supports local residents without access to suitable gardening spaces to grow their own fresh food locally. Participating in a community garden is an amazing way to engage with your neighborhood, create a more sustainable food system, and reduce environmental impacts.

The Grow A Row program was established during the pandemic in 2020. As we continued to cope with the Covid-19 crisis, we were inspired by the local community resilience efforts taking shape. Many people were interested in learning new skills, and even more, they grew their own local fresh food!

At Green Venture, we saw it as an opportune time to help support a more local, sustainable, equitable food system. The Grow A Row program started as a pilot project to support more urban growth and facilitate sharing of locally grown food and gardening knowledge.

DO YOU HAVE SPACE IN YOUR GARDEN TO GROW A LITTLE EXTRA?

By joining as a Grower, you are helping to fight food insecurity and increasing access to healthy, sustainable, and local food sources within the Hamilton community. 

When you grow your own food and share it locally, you are creating a more resilient, healthy, and connected community:

• shortening the food miles fresh food travels
• reducing the number of pesticides and chemicals used 
• increasing access to local, nutritious food 

The Hamilton Seed Library is an initiative started by the Hamilton community and maintained by Green Venture that serves as a hub for sharing, borrowing, and donating seeds at no cost. We encourage those interested in gardening to visit a Hamilton Seed Library location to browse a free selection of seeds for planting! The Hamilton Seed Library depends on seed donations from you! Please save your seeds and share some back to the seed library at harvest time, so we can keep the cycle going next season.

Since 2011, Green Venture has been the primary organizer of Hamilton’s Seedy Saturday – a well-established and beloved gardening event. It is the go-to spring gardening event and launches the spring growing season. Seedy Saturday aims to promote local ecologically grown seeds and plants and support local seed producers and growers.