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Local community gardens endure theft
October 10, 2024 · 0 Comments
By Brian Lockhart
Growing vegetables for yourself or your family is a good way to enjoy fresh produce while reducing grocery bills.
However, a local garden has been having a problem with people stealing vegetables.
The Tec-We-Gwill Woman’s Institute has been looking after a community garden in Alliston since 2009.
Boxes were built to make the gardens accessible for residents who live in apartments or those needing to garden at waist height instead of on the ground.
The boxes are assigned each year to residents and they agree to look after their assigned box at the end of the growing season by making sure it is tidy for the winter season.
The aim is to grow their own vegetables, enjoy healthy eating during the summer months, and hopefully have enough to put away for the winter.
Each person is assigned a plot within a garden box where they grow the produce to provide for their family.
Tec-We-Gwill Woman’s Institute has also provided canning demonstrations to show how to preserve the harvest properly.
During this past summer, the garden experienced theft as people showed up to it and stole vegetables grown by other people.
The Tec-We-Gwill Woman’s Institute is asking people to be respectful of other people’s gardens and not steal their vegetables.
There is a waiting list for garden plots as people that have a designated box tend to keep it for the next year. The Institute is hoping that New Tecumseth Council will include the building of 10 more boxes in their budget for the next growing season.
If you are interested in growing at the community garden for next year, e-mail the Institute at: Tecwegwillwi@gmail.com.
The Institute will continue to look after registering and monitoring the plots and work with the Town’s Parks and Rec Department for water to be supplied to the community garden.
If you do not have a garden plot, do not enter the area to harvest vegetables.
They are someone else’s property.
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