Food Policy - Grow A Row, Share A Row Program

How often is it that you can enjoy a favourite hobby and help others in your community at the same time?

The Grow a Row, Share a Row program invites local gardeners to grow an extra row of vegetables for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and Neighbourhood Houses in Vancouver.

When you share your harvest through Grow a Row, Share a Row, you can support local programs, and help strengthen your community. See the list of 2009 drop-off locations below, or download the 2009 brochure. Your shared garden can also count towards the City’s 2010 Community Gardens by 2010 Challenge.

This program is based on the Plant a Row, Grow a Row program established by the Canadian Association of Food Banks, The Composting Council of Canada and the Garden Writers Association of America.

» View the Grow a Row, Share a Row 2009 brochure here (PDF, 422KB)

How can you help?

Grow a Row, Share a Row builds on the long-standing tradition of gardeners loving to share their harvest with others.

Add an additional row, bed or pot to your vegetable plot or balcony garden. Plant or harvest a fruit tree. Then, set aside the extra fruits and vegetables from your garden for donation at a community drop-off site listed in this brochure.

Then, send an email to foodpolicy@vancouver.ca to register your shared garden plot in the 2,010 Community Gardens by 2010!

Food Distribution

Your garden-fresh produce will go directly to pre-school, after-school, youth, single parents, newcomers and seniors programs at the location of your choice.

Making your donations for the Grow A Row Program

From June through October, fresh produce can be taken to one of these drop-off sites. Check the list below to find the location closest to you. PLEASE make your donations only during the times and days of the week identified

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Drop Off Locations & Times

Central Vancouver

• Little Mountain Neighbourhood House
  3981 Main Street
  Monday – Friday 9am – 4:30pm
  
  
• Mt. Pleasant Neighbourhood House
  800 East Broadway
  Monday – Friday, 8:30am - 5pm, Saturday & Sunday noon – 4pm

West Side

• Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
  2325 West 7th Avenue
  Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm; After 4:30 (or on Sat or Sun) leave on front deck.
  
  
• West Side Family Place
  2819 West 11th Avenue
  Monday – Thursday, 9am – 3pm

West End

• No sites currently available in the West End.

East Vancouver

• Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House
  4065 Victoria Drive
  (604) 874-4231
  Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
  
  
• Collingwood Neighbourhood House
  5288 Joyce Street
  (604) 435-0323
  Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11am - 3pm; Call for weekend and evening drop-off times.
  
  
• Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
  2131 Renfrew Street
  (604) 251-1225
  Monday - Friday 1pm – 4pm
  
  
• Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  2425 Oxford Street
  (604)-254-5401 /(604) 254-5401
  Monday – Friday 8am – 6pm
  Call for weekend or evening times.
  
  
• South Vancouver Family Place
  7710 Nanaimo Street
  (604) 325-5213
  Tuesday – Friday, 9am – 3pm
  
  
• Wilson Heights United Church
  1634 East 41st Avenue
  (604) 325-9944, x225
  Tueday - Friday, 9:30am - 2:30pm

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