I love gardening, and I believe that everyone should have the right to good qaulity food and have been following this group since I saw them at the permaculture weekend event last year and I have shared a number of things on the blog/facebook page but they meetings tend to be well over an hour away and in the evenings, between chores and late driving, it pretty much has left me a cheerleader on the sides..

At least until today, they are asking for folks to consider splitting and growing extra’s for the Community Urban Food Forest, now they ideally want to get to the point of being able to make their own extras to offer for sale but that is a ways off yet, right now they need things to get that food forest planted and going..

That is where I and I hope lots of other gardeners come in.. now I am going to admit that I am the first one to say, that I have lots of room and certianly could use pretty much all the soft fruit starts for my own food forest but when it comes to plants, seeds and gardens and gardeners, at least to me, there is as much of a urge to share the plants as I get to share the bounty!

So given that, I figure I will offer up 25% of what I had already pinned or plan to split or started last year for my own food forest to the group (if they meet their approval but I can’t see why they would not) and I am going to throw down the garden glove! for all the local gardeners to get behind this idea with me 🙂 (Please, pretty please with sugar on top) and split off and well root out something in their garden this spring/summer and bring it in this fall of 2013 for their plant out and dig in date..

For those that think this is a great idea but are not local, well don’t give up on the spirit of the challange, google if you need to, there must be a community garden, or a church garden or a garden food based program somewhere in your neck of the woods, track down something you consider worthy and work with them, be it donate seeds, or grow a row or give fresh produce to the local food bank or soup kitchen or ?

So what do you think girls!  are any of you with me?  Let me know what you are going to try and do and we will share our stories and success with each other..

I need to see what made it though the winter before I can give a list of what I will be growing for this worthwhile project, will update as soon as I am able to do so!

“Permaculture Ottawa’s Community Plant Nursery Resource List
We envision the community plant nursery as a source of locally adapted permaculture plants that we can use while establishing our Community Urban Food Forest at the Just Food site in Blackburn Hamlet.  By donating cuttings, seeds, layerings, and splittings of your useful permaculture plants to the project, you will be helping us to conserve our resources so that we can focus our purchasing powers on plants that are rare and difficult to get in the Ottawa area.  Once we have acquired a base nursery of these plants, we intend to propagate them and make extras available to the community.  If you sign up to donate plants, please remember to email your contact information to Permaculture Ottawa (subject heading: CUFF community nursery) at permaculture.project.ottawa@gmail.com”
For more information on the project please visit http://permacultureottawa.ca/projects/community-urban-food-forest/