Two community gardens proposed for Cloverdale<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 am Saturday, July 18, 2026<\/p>\n
Two community gardens are being proposed for East Surrey.<\/p>\n
Paul Orazietti, a board member for the Cloverdale Community Association (CCA) and the executive director of the Cloverdale BIA, said both a \u201cWellness Garden\u201d and a \u201cUnity Garden\u201d were being put forward for two sites in Cloverdale\u2014one on the Fairgrounds and another at a yet-to-be-determined spot somewhere in town.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Wellness Garden is being proposed for the Fairgrounds on land beside the Stetson bowl,\u201d Orazietti revealed.<\/p>\n
The endeavour is being spearheaded by the CCA. Ken Bauder, CCA vice-president, said his group is advocating for building the two gardens in a partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cloverdale Community Association, in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, is proposing to develop and implement a food security training program,\u201d Bauder noted. The project is \u201cdesigned to strengthen community capacity for sustainable food production, healthy living, and climate resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems is a KPU multidisciplinary Applied Research Institute. The institute \u201caims to shape local and regional food systems that nurture people\u2019s health and well-being and sustain thriving ecosystems,\u201d according to the university.<\/p>\n
Bauder noted the CCA wants to use a piece of city land for a temporary pilot program and is currently in talks with the city on where the garden would be built. He said they\u2019re hoping to get going by Aug. 1. Workshops would follow in the fall, from September to December, in a collaboration with both SFU and KPU.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe call for participants will go out after the workshop dates and land are confirmed,\u201d Bauder explained.<\/p>\n
He added they expect to run a steady workshop period in the fall, followed by a quiet period through the winter months, with a startup active in early 2027 that will continue through the growing season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is for a two-year, plus or minus, temporary city pilot site,\u201d Bauder said. He added they\u2019ll build up \u201can infrastructure that can be moved to a community garden location in Cloverdale when the pilot finishes.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information, or to get in touch with the CCA, visit their website at cloverdalecommunity.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two community gardens proposed for Cloverdale Published 6:00 am Saturday, July 18, 2026 Two community gardens are being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-810199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}