Sawyerville Community Garden

The Sawyerville Community Garden is a not-for-profit organisation that has been in operation for the past six years. Over this period of time the community garden has grown to include multiple pieces of equipment and has become a gathering point for multiple activities within its community.

Some of the resources available at the garden, such as the ancestral wood-oven, takes inspiration from technologies of yester-year. The clay oven is used every Saturday to make pizzas which are sold during the Sawyerville Villagers Market (farmer’s market).

The newest addition to the community garden is a covered platform where the organisation hosts its Mercre-dîner. The Mercre-dîner is essentially a weekly lunch offered on Wednesdays, during the summer, made from local produce and produce that comes directly from the community garden itself. All the proceeds from this lunch help fund the organisation. This structure is also used during the farmer’s market, where producers can set up their market stands.

All of the community garden’s infrastructure is available to the community, the covered platform and wood-oven can be rented for 50$ for the day. For more details email us at jcsawyerville@hotmail.com.

Not only does the community garden offer space for people to garden, it also heads multiple activities in its community, such as; the Sawyerville Villager’s Market, which takes place from July to September, the Sawyerville Harvest Festival, educational workshops and also the Sawyerville Seed Festival, which will be taking place this coming Saturday, February 16th.

The Sawyerville Seed Festival is the largest event thesawyerville Community Garden organises. This festival is as old as the Community Garden its self. Every year they organise this even t where people can exchange ideas, tips and tricks and learn about new subjects all in the theme of gardening and the environment. All proceeds generated by the event will be used to support the activities of the community garden.

This year the festival will be bigger and better than ever before, with 21 kiosks for groups ranging from local artisans to vegetable and seed producers. Not only that, there will be 12 conferences held all throughout the day. These conferences will be on topics ranging from pollinators, to super-foods, to living soils, wild mushrooms and nuts, to regenerative agriculture and much more.

Lunch will also be provided, all made by volunteers. The menu will include, soups and salads, turkey pot-pie, vegetarian and vegan lasagnas, and lastly dessert.

The Seed Festival will be held on Saturday, February 16th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Eglise Notre Dame du Rosaire in Sawyerville. Entry prices: 15 years old+ 20$, 12 to 15 years old 15$, 8 to 12 years old 10$, 8 years old or younger are free.

The Community Garden is an organisation with the health of its community and the environment at heart. It strives to engage people to grow their own food or to purchase locally and to acquire knowledge about growing food and how to protect our environment.