Manor Park Community Gardens
Welcome to the Manor Park community gardens page !
This section of the MPCA website features the community gardens that focus on growing food, and highlight some pollinator-friendly native plant gardens that you will find throughout Manor Park. Various groups and individuals participate in these gardening and rewilding initiatives throughout Manor Park.
If you would like to get involved, please see the About our Gardens Section for specific garden contact information.
About our Gardens
Manor Park Community Garden at St. Columba:
This community vegetable garden is located behind St. Columba Anglican Church. It has raised bed vegetable garden plots that individuals and families rent for the season, as well as donation plots that volunteer gardeners use to grow food for the local food bank at Rideau Rockcliffe Community Resource Center. There are currently 12 garden plots and they are rented out starting in (February). Please contact the garden early in the season if you would like to rent a plot.
This site also features a pollinator garden that was created by members of St. Columba Church in collaboration with Faith and the Common Good.
Information:
- Location: 24 Sandridge Rd, Ottawa, ON K1K 0A8
- Inquiries: manorparkcommunitygarden@gmail.com
- Our gardens are operated out of the space provided by St. Colomba Church.
Seeds of Change Community Garden:
This community vegetable garden is located behind 500 St. Laurent Blvd Ottawa Community Housing building and contains raised bed vegetable garden plots where residents (of 500 St. Laurent Blvd?) can grow food together. It also features a children’s garden and a pollinator garden.
Information:
- Location: 500 St. Laurent Blvd
- Inquiries: gardentheseedsofchange@gmail.com
Manor Park Native Plant Demonstration Garden
This garden aims to create a small habitat for native wildflowers, grasses, insects, and birds to thrive. Our goals are to provide ecosystem functions to enhance and protect Manor Park’s natural systems. The garden also serves as an engaging educational tool for residents to enable them to create native habitats with similar ecosystem benefits on their own properties using green gardening practices.
Information:
- Location: 100 Thornwood Avenue
- Inquiries: environment@manorparkcommunity.ca
Manor Park Community Council (MPCC) Vegetable Gardens
These raised beds located next to the MPCC fieldhouse and close to Manor Park Public School are used for vegetable gardening by children who attend MPCC programs including their after-school programming, summer camps, and the licensed daycare.
Information:
- Location: 100 Thornwood
- Inquiries: ssears@manorpark.ca
Support Our Gardens!
Your support brings life to our gardens and our programs.
Please consider donating whatever you can in order to help finance supplies, enhancements, and seed access.
You may also consider donating lightly used (or brand new) tools for use by our community gardeners!
Additional Resources
- Just Food Garden Guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin)
- Just Food Community Gardening Network
- Just Food Newsletter
- https://justfood.nationbuilder.com/newsletter_signup
- Fletcher Wildlife Garden
- Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library
- The Corner Pollinator Garden and Wildlife Habitat
Latest Posts
Here, you can read about the latest news related to our community Gardens. These posts are published by our local gardeners and garden coordinators.
Upcoming Events
This is the space where users can see what sort of things are happening at the MPCA. You can click on events and add them to your calendar.
