Riverside Community Garden
Riverside Community Garden is located by the green space at the south end of Riverside Drive NW.
Riverside
The Gardens
Riverside Gardens is in a fully exposed location, subject to all the conditions that come whith Chinook Zone gardening.
There are 43 garden plots at Riverside Drive – 24 ground plots and 19 raised beds. There is also a common herb bed, communcal vegetable bed, strawberry patch, and communal pole bean patch. There is also a food forest that has apples, sour cherries, haskups, red currants, and pears.
First Season - 2015
Establishing the Riverside garden in the open turf field was a huge effort. So many volunteers from the initial garden subscriber list showed up to help. A good amount of time was spent installing the perimeter fence and getting bed perimeters cut and assembled.
The construction of the garden grounds faced a big time crunch with; in ground water system, turf scraping, perimeter fence construction, bed construction, filling beds with our soil/compost mixture; all after the Spring thaw and before we got too far into the growing season. But it was done and the first gardeners were able to prepare their personal beds and plant for June 1. What a success!
Riverside Gardens went from completely bare the first of June…
To this … over the course of the first season.
