Category: Langford
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Compost your pumpkins at Porcher Park Community Garden
Sunday October 5, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, UFRIS Executive Lead After you’ve celebrated Thanksgiving with pumpkin pie or Halloween with jack-o-lanterns, your pumpkin is wanted by Mother Nature! Save the pulp and seeds for baking or gardening, and put the rest into composting. Compost options: For raw pumpkins (not cooked), here…
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Year-One Porcher Park Harvest Celebration
Monday September 29, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by UFRIS Executive Lead Mary P Brooke We had a relaxing upbeat harvest season event at Porcher Park Community Garden (PPCG) on Sunday September 28. We celebrated the first year of urban community gardening at PPCG by households in Langford. These are households who don’t have their own…
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Porcher Park Community Garden harvest donations to Living Edge Westshore
Sunday July 27, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke. Executive Lead, UFRIS Two raised garden beds at Porcher Park Community Garden (PPCG) are used for growing veggies that get donated to the community. The gardeners at PPCG have come to know the boxes as 32 and 33. Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS)…
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Midsummer gardens are growing
Saturday July 12, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, B.Sc., Executive Lead – UFRIS Gardens are growing at Porcher Park Community Garden in Langford. Over 31 local households have invested their time, gardening skills and care to grow edible foods in raised garden beds. The range of plants includes lettuce, carrots, potatoes, beans,…
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Summer gardens are watered and growing
Monday June 16, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead – Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society Gardens are growing fast and well at Porcher Park Community Garden in central Langford! Growing boxes are in action by 31 local households as well as three community growing boxes. Everyone cooperates to keep an eye…
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Garden plots fully underway at Porcher Park Community Garden
Thursday June 5, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS Gardens are growing strong at Porcher Park Community Garden this week. There are 33 growing plots in raised garden beds, with crops well under way. Thirty-one of the growing plots are for individual household resilience and two are growing veggies for…
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Langford OCP includes food security goals that align with UFRIS recommendations
Wednesday May 21, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS On Tuesday evening May 20, City of Langford council heard a fullsome presentation of their new draft Official Community Plan (OCP) which includes Part 13 – Food Systems and Security. Naturally, the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) supports all steps…
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We’re seeking donations of gardening tools & equipment
Saturday May 17, 2025 by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS Porcher Park Community Garden at 822 Wren Place in central Langford has food-growing plots for household resilience and food donation to community. Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) operates the garden on behalf of the City of Langford. The City of Langford has paid…
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Food-growers connect at Porcher Park Community Garden
Sunday May 11, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS It was a rainy setup on Saturday morning May 10 for our UFRIS meet-and-greet at Porcher Park Community Garden. But the sun came out and so did Langford food-growing enthusiasts! Thank you to our volunteer setup crew and everyone who visited.…
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Community event at Porcher Park on May 10, 2025
Friday May 2, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC [Updated May 5, 2025] The opening season of the first year at Porcher Park Community Garden starts with an event on Saturday May 10. This first community garden in Langford is for people who grow food! It will support households and provide donated food to the broader community…