by Carl BR Johnson
May 31, 2013
Photo by Carl BR Johnson — Michelle LaBoucane and Leah Stewart with another volunteer of the community gardens hopes that this site near the Church of the Resurrection will be their final home, as they have moved three times in 10 years.
Fort St. John’s nomadic community gardens hopes their third home in 10 years will be their final destination.
“Knock on wood!” said Michelle LaBoucane, the coordinator of the gardens about their unusual tendency to move around the city.
“We never know when we’re going to move the gardens next because it’s only a year-to-year lease with the church now,” she said of their new landlord.
“We just don’t know what’s going to happen to us in the future,” she said.
The first time around, the gardens were on the property of the Northern Lights College, but they asked the gardens to move so they could expand their operations.
The second home was found right next-door to their current location, farther east, but the church, who used to own that section of land as well, sold it to a developer, and the gardens were obliterated.
The gardens’ third home, is now currently still on the Church of the Resurrection’s property, just closer to the church building itself.
They have set aside a small area of land and allowed LaBoucane to use it for her community gardens.
The church borders the gardens’ current location on the south side of the roughly one-acre garden plot, and is situated between 102nd and 100th Avenue, east of 96th Street.
“Thankfully, they’re (the church) community-minded enough to let us use the land for free,” she said.
“We love the location here, and it’s so central – we’re very close to the centre of town.”
Like the community gardens found in Dawson Creek, they rely entirely on community support and the generosity of local corporations and other business interests.
LaBoucane said that much of their monetary contributions and many supplies came from companies like Encana and BC Hydro.
“They (Encana and BC Hydro) paid for all the supplies and so did Home Hardware – they donated rakes and shovels and things that we didn’t think of like landscaping stuff,” she said.
“The list of donors goes on and on.”
LaBoucane said the gardens are for anyone and everyone to enjoy.
“All we ask, is that you pay a $15 deposit when you come to the gardens, which you will get back at the end of the growing season,” she said.
“We’ve found that when people come to the gardens without paying, they plant things and forget about them. So if their money is involved, they’ll be less likely to forget about their plants at the gardens.”
The popularity of the gardens in Fort St. John is undeniable, she said, because all 48 boxes were filled last year.
The “boxes” are raised garden beds about two feet tall that are typically installed at many different community gardens to make gardening easier.
Also, the raised beds are ideal for avoiding clay material found in the ground in this part of the world.
Gardeners like Rebecca Frederick, president of the community gardens in Dawson Creek, have stated the dreaded clay material is largely responsible for “choking” anything planted.
And all that generosity given to the gardens has been given right back to the community in the form of food donations.
“Over 50 pounds of new potatoes that we grew in the gardens last year were given to the Salvation Army,” said LaBoucane.
“The city of Fort St. John has always been very supportive.”
“A lot of people are holdings hands to make this work,” said Leah Stewart, another volunteer assisting LaBoucane.
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