The Kitchen Community Garden Project

The Kitchen Community Garden is a one-acre volunteer operated garden providing bushels of fresh, organically grown vegetables, berries, herbs and flowers for St. John's Kitchen . Located on an 80-acre farm just on the outskirts of Kitchener, the garden provides a unique opportunity for volunteers to spend satisfying, quality time out of the downtown while working in the garden to produce fresh produce to take home.  The Kitchen Community Garden shares a large green house and garden tools with GROW Herbal Gardens.

• A harvest of 400 bunches of fresh cut herbs, 12 bushels of onions, 22 bushels of lettuce, 22 bushels of kale, 20 bushels of cauliflower, 120 litres of beans, and 225 large zucchini!
• Approximately 1500 volunteer hours (including over 100 different volunteers on site)
• An estimated 5-10 tonnes of compost taken from St. John's Kitchen
• 50-60 visitors during our July Open House celebration

Volunteers Needed!

From April to November volunteers are needed for seeding, watering, transplating, weeding & harvesting. No garden experience's required, and new volunteers are always welcome throughout the season. Great opportunity to learn about small-scale organic garden & greenhouse production! Ongoing training provided. The Kitchen Community Garden aslo has 16 individual community garden plots - free for garden volunteers!

The Kitchen Community Garden is located at 50 Kraft Drive, just off Bloomingdale Road, and is accessible by the #6 busline (last stop).

For more information, please contact Karin at The Working Centre at (519) 743-1151 ext. 244 or by e-mail.