Canada: Boulevard garden growing joy during pandemic summer days in Regina
The boulevard garden in the Crescents grows pizza ingredients, strawberries, pumpkins and community.
By Heidi Atter
CBC News
Sep 04, 2020
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It has only grown during the pandemic, and so has the meaning to the gardeners and their non-gardener neighbours. Pratchler said it’s a close community. Neighbours used to visit each other’s front porches, getting together frequently before the pandemic hit.
“When we had to go social distance, we missed visiting with each other,” she said.
Now the green area acts as a meeting place, complete with a prairie flower garden, perennial garden, a prairie resilience garden, a peace garden and a pizza garden. The peace garden is planted on top of a large peace symbol. The pizza garden is on the other end andd features pizza ingredients including basil, thyme, tomatoes and peppers.
In this time of physical distancing, Pratchler said it gives a safe destination people can go to see what’s happening and check in on each other while being physically distant.
“We know the length of a hoe and that’s a pretty good frame of reference. So we naturally keep our distance and we’re able to because we’re on the boulevard,” she said.
