The Shuswap Community Teaching Garden engages new learners, as well as seasoned gardeners, in the art of growing food! We work together to grow an abundance of naturally-grown produce to share with Second Harvest, the community and volunteers. The garden is in its 11th growing season in partnership with Buckerfield’s, Reliable Septic and Sudoa Farm with a goal of growing over 6000lbs of nourishing produce each season.
5921 30th St NE
Salmon Arm, BC
(North Broadview)
We have fully planted at the garden and now we carry on with weeding, mulching, watering, and pest checks! We encourage you to sign up for the Teaching Garden newsletter (see bar below) to be informed of when we have garden events and crew onsite. See the calendar below which is where you’ll see hours on the most up to date copy!
The Garden has been growing beautifully and continues still into the month of October! We continue to tend, plant, weed and harvest every week. We encourage you to sign up for the Teaching Garden newsletter to be informed of when we have garden events and crew onsite and you can also check out the calendar below which is where we’ll keep the most up to date copy!
Sign up for our newsletter below!
Melanie at projects@shuswapfood.ca
The garden is under mentorship by Sue Moore, prior owner and farmer of Notch Hill Organic Farm and Nursery, as well as Elmarie Roberts, Permaculture educator and Work Bee leader.
Our SFAS Garden Crew have regular scheduled hours on-site so be sure to check the calendar for days or contact us for tasks to tackle.
Fill out our volunteer form on our Volunteer Page to let us know that you are keen to help with our garden programs.
During sign up, you will be asked to sign our garden waiver in order to participate. Due to liability concerns, we will have a lock on the gate to limit entrance to those who are registered with signed waivers.
Sign up for our newsletter below to be kept up-to-date about garden events and tasks.
If you have questions about how to support the garden, contact Melanie at projects@shuswapfood.ca!
We are looking forward to another great season and would love to have our community lend a hand. Our efforts are to grow as much fresh food as we can and with many hands, we can!
**Work Bee days are weather dependent. VERY wet days will likely cancel the day or events will be postponed.
When: Saturday, Oct. 17th 3pm-6pm
Where: Shuswap Community Teaching Garden
5921 30th St, NE, Salmon Arm
It’s time to get the garden ready for Winter!
Great activity for kids and families and those wishing to build our community’s food security and resiliency!
Sunday, August 23 from 11-12pm
Seed Saving 101 + Demo
Learning to grow crops for seed can provide years of food security. There is plenty to learn to grow seeds that will grow your food! Come see demos of a great variety of mature crops.
RSVP is very helpful. You can do that here It helps us plan!
The event is FREE though we greatly appreciate donations on-site to help us continue this important work!
Families and children encouraged. Come Grow With Us!
Come join with us and help our Teaching Garden’s leads through the whole week! Elmarie will be available on 2 Saturdays per month and most Thursdays, with Sue each Wednesday and Sunday in order to teach, take care of garden tasks and help orient any new volunteers.
We appreciate our core base of volunteers and love to meet new folks too! This is a great way to learn more about growing food, to help our community and to connect with an amazing group of people!
The assistance on these days truly helps to assist the garden’s growth and to produce the thousands of pounds of fresh food!
Come join with us and help our Teaching Garden’s leads through the whole week! With Fall now here, we will have less days where crew will be on-site so be sure to check the calendar.
Elmarie will be available on some Saturdays and most Thursdays, with Sue will be back here and there!
We appreciate our core base of volunteers and love to meet new folks too! This is a great way to learn more about growing food, to help our community and to connect with an amazing group of people!
The assistance on these days truly helps to assist the garden’s growth and to produce the thousands of pounds of fresh food!
YouTube playlist all about the teaching garden progress. Note the drop down menu for more videos.
YouTube playlist filled with gardening tips.
This in-depth presentation will cover the WHY to grow your own, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN and HOW!
Special thanks goes to our community partners: Buckerfield’s & Reliable Septic Services. We also thank Watson’s for their donation of gloves for volunteers, the Shuswap Rotary Club for providing the gathering shelter, to Sue and Elmarie for their diligent and steadfast work to nurture this garden as well as our amazing group of volunteers making this garden grow! This year we’re excited to host different school and community groups to learn more about the ART and skill of gardening.
