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Roots, tendrils, seeds and shoots: a case study of Parkallen’s community garden, a permaculture project

dc.contributor.authorWurfel, Marlene
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T00:59:00Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T00:59:00Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe first growing season of Edmonton’s Parkallen Community Garden began in Spring 2012. We transformed an unused strip of lawn bordering our hockey rink into a loamy, thriving “edible food forest” of corn, beans, squash, kale, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, apple trees, and mammoth sunflowers. It is unlike most community gardens in that individual plots are not tended by individual gardeners; rather, the PCG is tended communally, by the community. The garden is open and accessible to the community, always, and all are welcome there, from the toddler whose only contribution is to chomp on a snowpea and water a dandelion, to the senior who wants to plant a tree in his community that he knows will outlive him. Hundreds of Parkallen residents have planted something, admired something, or munched on something there. In its first year Parkallen’s garden won The City of Edmonton’s top community gardening award from Communities in Bloom. This article is a case study of the Parkallen Community Garden. Through the lenses and observations of the author, it details how Parkallen’s permaculture design came, literally, to fruition and how permaculture has been interpreted and how it informs our garden and our gardening community.
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dc.identifier.citationWurfel, M. (2013). Roots, Tendrils, Sprouts and Shoots: A Case Study of Parkallen’s Community Garden, a Permaculture Project. Earth Common Journal, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.31542/j.ecj.82
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31542/j.ecj.82
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1411
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectcommunity gardens
dc.subjectpermaculture
dc.subjectcase studies
dc.subjectEdmonton, Alberta
dc.titleRoots, tendrils, seeds and shoots: a case study of Parkallen’s community garden, a permaculture projecten
dc.typeArticle

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