Canada: Grand opening held for Dawson Creek Community Garden
The City of Dawson Creek also proclaimed 2022 the year of the garden in February, and donated some bark mulch for the plots.
By Grace Giesbrecht
Energetic City
June 15, 2022
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The community gardens provide a space for community members to grow their own fruits, flowers, and vegetables. The rain on the morning of the grand opening dampened the soil of the garden plots but not the spirits of the attendees excited to celebrate the official completion of the beautiful space.
Previously, the community garden made its home on the Dawson Creek and District Hospital grounds. The district hospital will be replaced in the next few years, and will use land that the community garden had partially occupied.
After “momentary heart failure” upon hearing about the new hospital’s need of the land, Fern Hansen, the head of the Dawson Creek Community Garden Society, explained that they found a new home on the corner of the Northern Lights College campus in Dawson Creek, only a short distance from the original site.
Hansen thanked several community contributors for their help moving and rejuvenating the gardens. Northern Health’s hospital replacement team for the new hospital and Northern Lights College were vital in the process, as were the construction and design firms that helped bring the garden to life again.
