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Wall Street Community Garden
Welcome!
Four New Gardeners Join Us in 2025
Wall Street Community Garden welcomes four new gardeners in 2025.
New members Ashley, Evelyne, Carmen and Jessica received their orientation training in April and can now be seen around the garden preparing their new plots. Please welcome them.
Membership Coordinator Eliana said this year’s filling of plot vacancies went smoothly.
“It was nice to start early,” Eliana said, “so that people were assigned plots at the beginning of the growing year.”
Eliana said there are now 14 people still waiting to join the garden and the wait list, closed a number of years ago when it grew to more than 60 names, may possibly be re-opened next year.
New gardener Ashley said she waited six years before finally being offered a membership this spring.
“It’s great to finally be able to join,” she said on a bright May day at her new plot.
News and Updates
TV Pilot Filmed at Garden
Wall Street Community Garden was the star of the show as a film production crew used the garden in early September as the location for a TV pilot shoot.
The proposed comedy series, entitled Gardens, is a story of controlling personalities, over-sized egos and bitter grudge matches in a fictionalized community garden.
“We looked at a few community gardens around Vancouver and this one really stood out,” said one of the show’s writers.
More Garden News
Fees Hiked for Some Members
Gardeners who don’t contribute three hours will pay higher fees next year.
Board Tightens Rules for Neglected Plots
The garden board has voted to tighten standards for neglected plots.
Three Gardeners Forfeit Membership
Three gardeners have forfeited their membership by failing to work their plots.
A Few Words About Us
We are one of the oldest community gardens on Vancouver’s East Side.
We are located in a fantastic setting overlooking the Port of Vancouver and have woven ourselves enduringly into our Forgotten Triangle neighborhood.
We humbly acknowledge that we sit on unceded coastal Indigenous territories. Not only do we unwaveringly support Reconciliation, but we also call for full compensation to Indigenous peoples for the catastrophes wrought by colonialism and European imperialism.
Plots are democratically allocated to interested Vancouver residents via our wait list. We also offer shared gardening and free produce to neighbors.
We are a community building a community. In an increasingly broken Vancouver, we aim to improve well-being by enhancing green space and human connection.
This Is What
Wall Street Community Garden Stands For
Reconciliation and Compensation
We think Reconciliation with Indigenous Nations goes far beyond middle-class virtue signalling. We support Land Back and full political and financial compensation for Indigenous peoples. Check out the Land Acknowledgement in our Guidelines.
Human Face-to-Face Connection
Community gardening is social as well as agricultural. In a lonely Vancouver obsessed with screens, we think getting acquainted with fellow gardeners is a perfect antidote to social isolation—a pathway to feeling real. Our meetings are face-to-face for this reason.
Natural Organically-Grown Produce
We are strictly organic. Our Guidelines and the City of Vancouver prohibit the use in Wall Street Community Garden of chemical fertilizers and artificial soil enhancers. We think sustainable and locally-grown produce is a key to healthy living.
Have a Look at Some of Our
Recent photos
Springtime is the garden’s busiest season. In early spring, plots are weeded and dug out. Soil is prepared with lime, manure and compost and seeds and seedlings are sown.
By late spring, early crops such as radish, lettuce and peas are already ready for the dinner table. Meanwhile, tomato gardeners are wondering about rain, shading and the eventual possibility of blight.
