The federal Crown corporation responsible for the park wants people to know it’s possible to grow a variety of food crops in urban Ottawa as part of its goal to tackle food insecurity.
A person takes a photo of corn and other vegetables growing in a planter box surrounded by metal fencing, at Major's Hill Park in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024On the western side of Major’s Hill Park, tall stalks of corn wave in the breeze from planters overlooking the place where the Rideau Canal empties into the Ottawa River.
“I think that showing food growing in urban spaces is inspiring. It’s a nice thing to see,” said Erin Beagle, the executive director of Roots Community Food Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., an organization that advocates for dignified food access.“To tell people it’s for food insecurity and then to even tell people who are food insecure, ’Actually, no, but you can’t touch that' is like waving something in front of them that they need.
In recent years, problems associated with poverty and drug use have become so acute in the ByWard Market that the local business association has hired private security and successfully lobbied the city to open a police operational centre so as to step up patrols. The agency says it’s doing that by opening more Greenbelt land to agriculture and community gardening, and exploring “the potential for food production on urban lands.”
The cement containers surrounding the Prime Minister’s Office are producing an abundance of groundcherries this summer. In recent years, they've also been home to kale and artichokes.
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