“For people who have always wanted the joys of a garden, the beauty and the bounty, but have never seem to find the time to get started, we offer our services; for people who have always gardened but can no longer maintain their former pace, we offer a helping hand.”
Vision: sustainable food system in Winnipeg
We envision a more just, sustainable food system, where people in urban spaces can work towards localizing food production, lessening our ecological footprint, working cooperatively, building community thus working towards food sovereignty in the city of Winnipeg.
Urban Eatin' helping coordinate a community garden project at Gilbert Park in Winnipeg.
Mission: serving you and the community
Our mission is to help enable urban people and places to become more food secure through the development of sustainable, healthy, edible landscapes; to develop viable livelihoods for enthusiastic, landless, urban gardeners/farmers using a grassroots, cooperative business model; and to effect positive social change.
By offering community members the opportunity to explore the joys of gardening and food production at their own paces and in their own spaces. We intend to use this model as a foundation from which we can explore other projects that fit into our public education mandate. For example, the establishment and development of schoolyard gardens, urban CSAs, and community gardens.
Overview: gardening and low-impact landscaping
Urban Eatin’ Gardeners’ Worker Coop is a small group of gardeners committed to using organic and holistic techniques to build and maintain vegetable and culinary gardens for Winnipeg’s private residences and public facilities. We have been trained with various techniques of light footprint, integrated gardening and permaculture principles. We believe that your home and your community should provide you with shelter and sustenance. So we offer to help make your yard a place of beauty, food, and comfort by enabling people to grow their own vegetables, fruits, herbs and edible garden spaces through consultations, workshops and hands-on learning.
We are available for consultations to help you plan your urban garden to assure maximum production and to integrate smart design to minimize maintenance. Together we will tailor the garden to suit your desires. You may then choose to have us come and implement the plan, collecting the seedlings, procuring the seeds, and installing your dream garden in your yard using low-impact landscaping techniques. Through the season you may find it helpful for us to return to help with the work load and offer suggestions to make your gardening experience uplifting and educational. You may not have time to tend your garden at all. In which case we could tend it for you, coming weekly to irrigate and weed. As a matter of fact, we could be your own personal farmers, planting, weeding, harvesting, and leaving the eating to you and your family.
Many agree that there are many costs of unhealthy eating – on our health, environment and society. Organic food is expensive. The average morsel of food in North America travels thousands of miles just to grace our tongues; it travels too far. Why not make your diet as local as it gets and grow food for your family right in your own yard? We are here to help you with that.
