Contact Information
- Name Jennie
- Email jennie.wharton@nanaimofoodshare.ca
- Phone 250-753-9393
- Website https://nanaimofoodshare.ca/programs/five-acres-farm-tours/
- Address: 945 Park Ave, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 4J4
General Information
The City of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Foodshare partner on an urban farm site in Nanaimo. Our programming provides ecological and food growing and cooking knowledge in our community.
You can find the Park Avenue Farm at 945 Park Ave. This land was the hunting grounds of the Snuneymuxw People. It is also one of the last intact five acre parcels of BC’s first planned (mining) agricultural community. Foodshare programs uses this land as an educational urban farm and community classroom.
We offer group tours of the Park Avenue Farm and we want to introduce you to large scale food growing in Harewood! Get hands-on practice with food growing skills and fun ecological activities. Weekly, monthly, seasonal, and individual visits highlight the various cycles of growing.
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- Teaching/Resources - growing food
- Teaching/Resources - cooking
- Teaching/Resources - food systems
- Teaching/Resources - food waste/composting
- Teaching/Resources - nutrition
- Teaching/Resources - food justice
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