In 2006, a group of residents and local organizations started searching for land in eastern Kitchissippi for a large community garden. Progress was made in 2014 when 10 organizations and a number of residents appealed to the National Capital Commission (NCC) resulting in the NCC creating a pilot project for community gardens on urban lands. A pilot garden was launched in Woodpark near Lincoln Fields in June 2017. 

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Over the past few years, we - local residents and organizations - have continued advocating to the NCC on the need for a community garden in the Hintonburg-Mechanicsville area. This neighbourhood has been identified as a food desert, an area where residents do not have easy access to healthy and affordable food year-round. 

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In 2016, we secured $14,500 in funding from the Community Garden Development Fund for a community garden in Hintonburg-Mechanicsville. In 2020, Goldenrod Community Garden Project  received approval to build a garden on a parcel of National Capital Commission (NCC) land located west of Parkdale, just north of the Tunney’s Pasture Complex, which we are calling the Goldenrod Community Garden. 

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The Goldenrod construction plan, developed in 2020 by a tireless group of volunteers, will construct up to 81 garden plots measuring 4 by 8 feet (32 sq. ft.) in 2021 with the intention of expanding and  increasing that number over the next two years.  There are plans to include a compact food forest and pollinator garden. 

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