The mixture of high temperatures and good rain has allowed the urban farm to flourish and has provided two large harvests already – a total of 60 lbs to date has been delivered to the food bank for families in Burlington. Adria Cehovin wanted to thank all of the volunteers and the corporate donors as well. They could always use more volunteers so if you would like to get involved with an amazing team, please contact Adria (grow4changes@gmail.com)

• Molinaro group (https://www.molinarogroup.com/) for lending the land,
• Seferian Design Group (https://www.seferiandesign.com/) for providing water
• Nurture Growth, (https://www.nurturegrowthbio.com/) for providing organic plant food
• Owens family, for the water containers
• and all the wonderful Burlington volunteers!!

The Urban Farm is here in downtown Burlington (Brant St. and Ghent Avenue). There are seedlings now growing in half of the 148 huge straw bales about 7ft x 3ft each. They are now growing peppers, broccoli, kale, tomatoes and various other vegetables and herbs. The project is progressing and all the start-up costs were managed by the Molinaro Group. The goal is to produce fresh vegetables and herbs and to donate them to food charities in Burlington. They also grew a pollinator garden to complete the cycle. Adria (grow4changes@gmail.com) will post updates along the way on their facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/I.will.grow

If you are in need or know of someone who could use our help, PLEASE have them email us at info@burlingtonfoodbank.ca or call 905-637-2273 to make arrangements to have food dropped at their door or make arrangements to pick it up through our curb-side pickup option. If you are a resident in Burlington, we are all here to help. Don’t struggle – give us a call.