community urban food forest + permaculture garden victoria, bc
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Welcome to Spring Ridge Commons
Community Urban Food Forest + Permaculture Garden Victoria, BC
Spring Ridge Commons
A garden of possibility......
“Imagine a green space in the heart of your neighbourhood designed to provide fresh organic food, conserve and recycle resources, create native bird/insect habitat, and generally improve the local quality of life.”
— Geoff Johnson, Originator
About Spring Ridge Commons
Spring Ridge Commons is an example of what is possible when you transform an under-utilized, marginal spaces ( a barren gravel lot)
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into a productive space both in terms of yields such as food and medicines
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and in terms of social yields such as experiences of beauty, nature and solitude,
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community and fun....1 2 3
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learning, 1 2 3
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a sense of belonging through contribution to a common space
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and place making........
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and experimenting with new relationships to land and people.
The site establishes common ground between all people who
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Spring Ridge Commons Events1
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Spring Ridge Commons: Bee in the Garden
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Spring Ridge Commons Primary
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Friends of the Spring Ridge Commons Society
“Friends of the Spring Ridge Commons” became a society under the BC Societies Act on July 6, 2012 for the following purposes:
a. To preserve and protect the Spring Ridge Common(s) as a community open space that is freely accessible to the neighbourhood and the larger community.b. To ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of the Common(s) as a community site, open to all by providing opportunities for people to experience community through shared management of the commons and hands-on knowledge sharing about permaculture design techniques and ecologically sound food growing practices.c. To provide a cultivated wild habitat in which birds, bees and other insects can thrive.d. To promote permaculture as well as other organic agricultural practices on the site.e. To preserve and protect fruit/production trees, shrubs, herbs and perennials that are free to harvest by all.The by-laws of the society are those set out in Schedule B to the Society Act.
History of Spring Ridge Commons