Lady Flower Gardens, is a place of experiential learning about growing food and growing community.
Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a gathering place. Since its beginnings it has created a space for groups typically pushed to the edges of Edmonton’s society to come and garden.
LFG’s primary purpose is to allow all who come to the land to find food, friendship and freedom. The garden operates on a service model: community members work together to grow crops. Each individual is invited to tend a communal plot of land through planting, weeding and harvesting. Most of the harvest goes to food organizations within Edmonton, but people also take a portion of the produce home for their own use. Using this model LFG is becoming a place of renewal, both for individuals and for relationships between individuals of differing classes, ethnicities and walks of life.
LFG currently works with nine organizations serving Edmonton, including The Mustard Seed, Hope Mission, Inner City Recreation and Wellness (a collaboration between the Bissel Center and Boyle Street Community Centre), Wecan Food Basket, The Winnifred Stewart Society, Autism Edmonton, Ambrose Place and the Edmonton Food Bank.
LFG and RBG share land and resources and was started in 2011 by Doug Visser & Kelly Mills.
– Lady Flower Gardens 2015 Report