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Get out and garden with us!!!

Gardening 101

Get off on the right foot this year and attend our annual introduction to organic collective gardening and planning session for the Victory Garden Network.

It will take place from 10 am – 4 pm on Satruday, April 25th at the Unitarian Church (5035 de Maisonneuve West). Attendance is reserved for members of Action Communiterre. There is a $5 annual fee to become a gardener and member of Action Communiterre.

For more details, call 514. 484. 0223.

Support Action Communiterre by ordering organic heritage plants for your home garden!

We sell plants every year to help raise the funds necessary to operate the Victory Garden Newtork. For more details or to place an order, contact Nel Ewane at technique@actioncommuniterre.qc.ca.

AC in the Media...

New heights in gardening - The Gazette - September 27, 2007

Reportage à Radio-Canada/Macadam Tribu

Reportage dans la revue SIAFU

Revue Franc Vert

Journal La Grande Époque

Women's garden cycles bike tour

Radio CBC

City Farmer

Pour Kyoto

La Fête des semences – La Presse

Plants and seeds catalogue
he varieties 2008 plants and seeds catalogue is now available. Please visit the catalogue page.

Action communiterre takes home its third award!
ontreal, June 20th, 2005 – Action Communiterre has been awarded a third prize recognizing its innovative and distinctive collective gardening program. Having won the Centraide Agnes-C.-Higgins Award, Action Communiterre’s environmental commitment also earned it 2nd place at the Canadian Environmental Awards as well as a Phoenix of the Environment in Quebec

Action Communiterre coordinates a network of collective gardens in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) neighborhood. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering social solidarity, promoting local food security and improving access to healthy produce through collective gardening and other urban agriculture projects. In keeping with a vision of sustainable development, Action Communiterre also engages in a variety of activities designed to raise public awareness of the value of community-based food production and distribution.

Centraide’s Agnes-C.-Higgins Award in 2004 rewards Action Communiterre’s innovative approach in responding to the needs of the community. Presented every year to organizations sponsored by Centraide of Greater Montreal, this prize highlights Action Communiterre’s pioneering role since 1997 in inspiring many other organizations throughout Quebec to develop collective gardening programs as a means of promoting food security and strengthening community.

Action Communiterre’s ecologically-minded approach has won it two prizes, one Canada-wide, and the other Quebec-wide. Having already won a Silver award (2nd Place) in the “Living Ecologically” category of the Canadian Environmental Prizes, Action Communiterre was distinguished on June 9th with Quebec’s Phoenix of the Environment. These two prizes underscore our success in transforming unused urban land and parking lots into lush, productive organic gardens.

Our collective gardens’ chief aim is to promote and raise public awareness of food security. These gardens break social isolation and foster active citizenship by giving everyone, including socially disadvantaged people, the opportunity to produce a portion of their own food in a dynamic, enriching group setting. The harvest is shared among the gardeners and also distributed throughout the neighborhood. In 2004 alone, our four gardens produced one ton of food, one third of which was redistributed through the NDG Food Depot and other housing projects in the district. We expect our harvest for the 2004 season to be every bit as impressive!

These three awards recognize the hard work of our volunteers, employees and especially our gardeners, many of whom have been involved since 1997. Action Communiterre will proudly continue to cultivate solidarity for many years to come!