Community event at Porcher Park on May 10, 2025

Friday May 2, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC [Updated May 5, 2025]

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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 where needed.

On Saturday May 10 Langford residents are invited to visit the community garden, meet fellow gardeners, and sign up for a growing-plot (if they have not already done so).

• Where: Porcher Park Community Garden, 822 Wren Place (in central Langford)
• Date: Saturday May 10, 2025
• Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
• What: Find out how the garden will operate. Meet fellow gardeners. Add your name to the garden plot selection lottery (assigned plots will be announced on Monday May 12); a wait list will be built after that. Sponsors, donors and volunteers welcome.
• Parking: Some street parking. Walk/cycle/roll is encouraged.
• Who: Everyone welcome.
• Pets: Dogs not allowed with the food-growing fenced area; there is other open park space at Porcher Park.

Porcher Park Community Garden is operated by Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS).

The UFRIS Executive Lead is Mary Brooke, B.Sc. (Foods and Nutrition) who will guide the garden to many great things including food production, developing food-growing expertise, and building community.

The Porcher Park summer gardening season officially starts on Thursday May 15, 2025. Garden-plot users will be asked to sign a user agreement and to pay a per-season plot fee:

CATEGORIES/PLOT FEES: (per-season fee – summer & winter)
A. Langford resident with a small family or aging-in-place senior – $40/plot
B. Langford resident with a large family – $60/plot
C. Langford resident growing to provide for community food donation – $60/plot
D. Langford resident with accessibility needs – $30/plot
E. Langford resident self-identifying as Indigenous – $50/plot

As many people as possible will be given growing space. If two families/users are assigned to one plot they can split the user fee.

Inquire about this event and/or get your name on the email info list: info@urbanfoodresilience.ca .