Wait list shrinks to 14 names
Four new members 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.
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Ashly said that, in the past, she has been a member of two other community gardens, including in Whitehorse, YT, where she lived for three years.
“Gardening in the Yukon is quite a different situation than here,” she said. “You have daylight for 20 hours, but only for two months of the year.”
Ashley said some crops such as potatoes grow fantastically well in Whitehorse. But other vegetables, such as tomatoes, though often growing extremely tall, usually don’t have enough time for their fruit to ripen before cooler weather sets in.
Ashley was also a member of the short-lived community garden at the London Drugs site on Hastings Street. However, because of an injury, she was never able to garden there and now, as the new London Drugs building nears completion, the temporary community garden on the site is only a memory.