The Botanical Department offers courses on organic gardening, and has youth and children's horticulture and naturalscience programs. Available from the Rooftop Garden Resource Group is a questionnaire to introduce the perspective gardener to the issues involved in setting up a garden, fact sheets and a resource library. This organization runs a project to improve family health by involving them in the gardening program. They are also involved with building a regional community gardening network. In downtown Victoria, this farm holds old growth fruit-bearing trees, vegetable produce, and over 50 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
Produce is distributed locally and the farm is open to visitors and for compost drop-off.
The City of Winnipeg has between 580-630 allotment plots available for a small fee. There are also two large community gardens and many small ones. This is a working site. This document has not been peer reviewed or edited for content. This document is provided here for reference and discussion purposes only.