Thursday, April 30, 2020

Community Gardens Are (Almost) Open!

The Province of Ontario recently deemed community gardens an "essential source of fresh food for some individuals and families" (source: https://www.news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2020/04/ontario-allows-the-redeployment-of-staff-to-better-care-for-vulnerable-people-during-covid-19.html) The WECCGC, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit and the City of Windsor have been coordinating to craft and plan the adoption of guidelines that will ensure safe operation of community gardens for the 2020 season.

We will release more information when appropriate; but we are at this time circulating a poster that will be placed in all of our gardens. (No one needs to go printing any of these themselves - we're working on coordinating their printing and posting now...)



... And here are some more detailed guidelines from the WECHU: