About

Ravina Community Garden aims to provide residents of Ward 13 with a place to come together and grow pesticide-free produce, herbs, and flowers.  We also intend to use this space for people to offer educational events related to gardening, cooking and preserving, healthy living and sustaining a vibrant community.

This green will provide a vital location for our children to learn about where our food comes from and how to care for the Earth.  It will also provide the necessary green space for the many residents who have no access otherwise to grow their own produce.  We foresee the inevitable surplus of produce can help support our local families in need.

We envision this space to be a hub of community co-creation, networking and education, where not only plants, but people grow.

Inspiration is drawn from a variety of gardens in the city, most especially the High Park Children's Garden, the Perth Dupont Community Garden and the Dufferin Grove Gardens.  It is our hope to bring the best of these gardens to fruition and enhance our own neighbourhood with such vitality and community spirit.

Updates:

The proposal application for a community garden at the corner of Clendenan Avenue and Glendonwynne Road has been accepted by the City of Toronto, moving the project on to the implementation process. 

The group is in the process of obtaining an Access Agreement from the Park's Supervisor and a Locates Report from OneCall and soil tests have been completed for the site.

For more information on the process of starting a community garden in the City of Toronto, please visit this website.


Due to prolonged pesticide use onsite, all edibles must be grown in containers.  This means that we need to build raised container beds and other vertical gardening structures to grow food in.  This type of gardening is very safe, however, it is expensive to build the containers and will limit the overall design of the garden site.  It also prevents us from offering individual plots at this time.


The garden group is currently in conversation with City Park's to determine the viability of soil remediation test patches to heal the soil.  If successful, this action would open up a wider range of gardening possibilities for future years and have a positive impact on the natural environment.


In the meantime, the focus is on formalizing our governance structure and community group while we collectively plan to create a wonderful community garden in Ward 13.