Food Policy

A City of Gardens

Vancouver has several dozen community gardens located throughout the city - and more are being created each year. This page contains a listing of all the current gardens, plot numbers, and contact information that you can use to get in touch with the garden administrators. We rely on the community to notify us of changes to this list - so if there are any updates to be made, please send us an email at foodpolicy@vancouver.ca.
		Vancouver's Community Garden Map, March 2009 (click to download PDF, 4.3MB). You can find another garden map here.

Joining an Existing Community Garden

The City of Vancouver works with communities to set up new gardens. If you want to join an already existing community garden, please contact the person whose name is associated with the garden. Neither the City nor Park Board keep the waitlists nor determine how gardens maintain their memberships.

Currently, the demand for community garden plots in Vancouver is far in excess of the number of plots that are available. Many gardens do have wait-lists, so if there is no space available in the garden you want to join, ask the garden contact to place your name on the list so that you can be notified when a plot becomes available. Alternately, you may also want to consider starting your own garden.

Finally, even if you don’t want to garden yourself, consider visiting the gardens just to have a look. There are some extraordinarily talented gardeners busy in these spaces, and their handiwork - particularly in midsummer and early fall - can be beautiful to behold. To help you chart a course around these garden spaces the City has produced a series of walking tour guides and related brochures. You can download them here.

Note: We rely on input from gardeners to keep this list up to date - so if you spot any errors or omissions, please send us an email and let us know.

Existing Community Gardens and Contact Details

Name	# Plots	Location	Telephone	Contact Email / Website
16 Oaks	30	Oak Street and West 16th	Temporary garden site oak.16th.garden@gmail.com
Acadia Park	84	Acadia Park Lane /UBC	604-822-6389	carol.young [at] ubc.ca Limited to residents of Acadia Park & University apartments
Arbutus Victory	41	East Blvd. 50 - 57th & 65th - 68th Avenues	604-873-7204	greenstreets [at] vancouver.ca
Cedar Cottage Comm. Gdn.	28	Under Skytrain near Hull & Victoria		tlccfoodsecurity [at] gmail.com
Chimo Terrace Youth Garden	5	Wall Street		gwfcnetwork@gmail.com
China Creek Housing Co-op	30	E. 8th & Keith Streets		Limited to CC Housing Co-op members
China Creek South	23	Broadway & Clarke Dr.	604-734-4673	ms_tlstorey [at] yahoo.ca
City Square /SPEC	25	10th and Cambie		bakervicky [at] shaw.ca
City Hall Garden	36	10th and Cambie		hdavies [at] evergreen.ca
City View Baptist Church	6	Sophia and E. 28th	604-872-7233	skbring [at] alumni.sfu.ca
Collingwood	30	Joyce & Vanness	604-435-0323	foodsecurity [at] cnh.bc.ca
Cottonwood	50	Hawks Ave. & Prior St.	604-608-0384	Jill Weiss: jg3weiss [at] smartt.com
Cypress	65	6th Avenue, Cypress - Burrard	604-732-9175	cypress [at] vcn.bc.ca; or ryanmp [at] interchange.ubc.ca; cypresscommunitygarden.ca
Davie Village	100	Davie Street & Burrard Street	Temporary Garden Site dvgarden [at] gmail.com
Elizabeth Rogers	56	E 7th Ave & Manitoba St.	604-879-1347	Brigitta Kocsis: brigi [at] b--k.ca
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House Gdn 1	5	E 5th at Renfrew	604-254-1225	eva [at] froghollow.bc.ca
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House Gdn 2	5	E 1st at Slocan	604-254-1225	eva [at] froghollow.bc.ca
Garden of Eatin'	20	2670 Victoria Drive	604-671-1123	lindsay.vanderhoek [at] gmail.com
Grandview	39	Grandview & Woodland	604.713.4663	Brent: bmansfield [at] vsb.bc.ca
Hastings Street Folk Garden	150	Between 117 and 123 E Hastings		peterlagrand [at] gmail.com For clients of the Portland Hotel Society
Jacob's Well 1	120	449 E. Hastings		aupps04 [at] gmail.com For clients of Jacob's Well programs
Jacob's Well 2	120	460 E. Pender		aupps04 [at] gmail.com For clients of Jacob's Well programs
JFSA	See World In A Garden
Kaslo Gardens Community Vegetable Garden	16	Kaslo & Kingsway		For members of Kaslo Gardens Co-op Housing
Kitsilano Christian Community Church	7	1708 W. 16th	604-737-0169
Kitsilano Maple	80	6th Ave. & Maple St.	604-731-1236	megaga [at] shaw.ca
Kitsilano Neighbourhood House	2
Kitsilano West	55	6th Ave. & Arbutus St.	604-876-1073
La Cosecha	56	Broadway & Clarke	for participants in Latin American HEAL program
McSpadden	18	E. 5th Avenue & Victoria Drive		bowiefb [at] gm.com
Means of Production		E. 6th and St. Catherines		info [at] eya.ca
M.O.B.Y.	45	Commercial & E 11th (under SkyTrain)	604-872-7020	Tina: moby_lize [at] yahoo.ca
Mole Hill	70	Comox - Pendrell & Bute - Thurlow	604-683-0517	Tera: mail [at] wera.bc.ca www.wera.bc.ca
Mt. Pleasant		8th Ave. & Fraser St.	See Sahalli Garden
Nelson Park	37	Comox & Bute		plots [at] vcn.bc.ca
ONNI	125	Pacific & Seymour	Temporary community garden site mike [at] onni.com
Pine	63	West 6th from Burrard - Pine Sts	pinestreetcommunitygardens [at] gmail.com
Queen Alexandra Elementary		SE corner Clarke & Broadway in school yard		For children at the school.
Robson Park	40	14th Avenue & Kingsway		robsongarden [at] gmail.com
Sahalli (formerly Mt. Pleasant)	100	8th Ave. & Fraser St.	604-879-3676	dig [at] vcn.bc.ca
SPEC Rooftop Garden	9	W. 7th and Maple St.
South Vancouver Family Place 1	8	7710 Nanaimo St.		fampla [at] telus.net
South Vancouver Family Place 2	3	7715 Murfield		fampla [at] telus.net
South Vancouver Youth Centre Day Program	3	Located behind 4866 Fraser Street		gregcsiszan [at] svyc.ca
Stanley Park	32	Robson St. & Lost Lagoon		www.wera.bc.ca
Strathcona	200	Campbell Ave. & Prior St.	604-253-3384	frankiesobe [at] yahoo.com
Tea Swamp Park	20	E. 15th Ave. & Sofia St.	604-872-7745	viridia [at] telus.net
The Rise on Cambie	18	Cambie and W. 7th		For residents of The Rise
Urban Acres	30	W. 1st and Fir		justintilson [at] gmail.com
Wall Street	45	Cambridge St. & Wall St.	604-258-4122	Jan Robinson
Windermere High School	6	E. 27th and Windermere	For Windermere students
World in a Garden (formerly JFSA)	46	East Blvd. & 57th Ave	Youth Seed-to-Table Project - for youth and after-school programs offered through Jewish Family Services Agency.

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