Wednesday Augu:t 15. 1980 - North Shore News - 33

IFESTYLES
Growing concern

aoe Community
a garden plot
oa sprouts in NV

ONE OF the bes: things
about having your own

egetable garden is sharing
the bounty.

: ca By Barbara Black

News Reporter

. : There’s a special pleasure in
ae tending ao varden and planting
. : seeds which grow into cdible
plants. This is partis what Jean
Theampson, nutritionist for com-
munity health promonoan at the
North Shore Health Unit, had in
mind when she came ap with the
idea of establishing & community
garden plot.

The community garden plot is
part of a program by the North
Shore Heahh Unit to increase
food access to people living on a
. modest income and, secondarily,

an to create a mutually supportive

: network.

- Says Lis Howard, also a nutri-

tionist with the bealth unit,

“We'd like to focus on low-in-

come groups and extend an invita

tion to (low-income) community
: . groups such gs pre-employment
pa” programs and programs for pea-
. ple on assistance to participate.”

"NEWS photo Mik
LIZ HOWARD, nutritionist for community health promotion at the North Shore Health Unit, tends to a zucchini plant at North Van-
couver’s new community garden plot.

100-blogk of East Ist Street. The
garden is operated by the

couver,
{CU vou are interested in the pro-

Alihough this year's plot came — weather was so warm.””
up with less than a bumper crop, Seeds and supplies for the

This year the garden was tended
by members of a VMCA_ pre-
employment program i» well as by
a teen mothers group, both of
which include a Junch program.
Food from the garden is intended
in part to provide nutritious food
for these lunch programs. Any
excess, says Howard, can be taken
home by the participants. Plans
for next year include involving a
seniors group in the project.

the hope for next year is to grow
enough vegetables to supply a
number of groups with home-
grown food.

“We ended up with fots of
radishes, and some sad tomato
and zucchini plants,"" says
Howard in good humor. **But I'm
going to go down there (to the
plot} and Jl replani and fertilize
and water the garden. We gota
bit of a late start and then the

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garden were donated bs Dykot
Nursery, Capilano Nursery and
Paine Hardware. *‘They thought
the idea of increasing food acces-
sibility was interesting.’” Howard
noted.

Next year she would like to see
more bedding plants used in the
garden to liven up the 30 by 12-
toat plot.

The plot is part of a large
community garden located in’ the

Moodyville Garden) Association. gram. contact Liz Howard or Jean
garden Thompson
Health Unit.

The association offers

space to gardeners in North Van-

the North Shore
988-5231.

644-2091

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