Harvest celebration at Porcher Park Community Garden on Sept 28, 2025. [KM]
Monday September 29, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC [Posted at 7:06 am]
Posted by Island Social Trends
People who grow food in Langford’s first community garden gathered on Sunday to celebrate the first year of successes at Porcher Park Community Garden (PPCG).
In addition to growing food for their households, gardeners at Porcher Park Community Garden have set in motion a community of urban food security supporters.
Porcher Park Community Garden in Langford, May 10, 2025. [Island Social Trends[
Porcher Park Community Garden is owned by the City of Langford and operated by Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) which is led by UFRIS Executive Lead Mary P Brooke.
Launching the garden space in May was strongly supported with generous donations from start-up sponsors including RONA (lumber and construction hardware), IslandEarth (three large deliveries of soil), and GardenWorks Colwood (starter plants for all the garden boxes).
Enjoying the fall season at Porcher Park Community Garden, Sept 28, 2025. [Island Social trends]
Generous discounts have been provided this year by Slegg Building Materials, and also by Buckerfields (Langford) which gives a 10% discount to PPCG gardeners, and Home Depot which discounted some additional lumber supply.
High quality construction of the growing boxes, compost bin and workbenches and setup of the tool shed was done by Jay’s Construction Group of Langford (thank you to Jay, Kelsey and Les).
Remarks to the gathering at the September 28 harvest celebration were delivered by UFRIS Executive Lead Mary P Brooke, City of Langford Councillor Mary Wagner, and two PPCG gardeners Patrick Hallihan and Monika Davies.
Year-One harvest celebration at Porcher Park Community Garden in Langford on Sept 28, 2025 (from left): community volunteer Kara Middleton, UFRIS Executive Lead Mary P Brooke, and Langford City Councillor Mary Wagner. [Photo by: Vincenza]
On the day, the donation of a large bale of mulch was delivered by Brian and Kara. A large donation of potty pan squashes was delivered by Paxton.
Seeds for next year’s peas and beans were donated by GardenWorks Colwood. A donation of many packets of radish seeds and also 25 soil-filled patio growing bags were donated by FED Urban Agriculture.
Seeds donated by GardenWorks Colwood and FED Urban Agriculture, for the 2025 harvest celebration at Porcher Park Community Garden in Langford, Sept 28, 2025. [IST]
Everyone brought potluck lunch contributions which always results in a fun array of food options.
Langford:
People of all ages attended. The four-hour drop-in was relaxed and supportive to the food security efforts of the City of Langford.
Langford has embedded food security as as goal within their Official Community Plan.
UFRIS:
Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) launched Langford’s flagship community garden which enables urban residents who have no yard space to grow food for their households.
This is part of the UFRIS mission to undertake seeing natural food-growing capacity in all urban communities across BC and to support household food affordability.
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The garden also donates fresh produce to the Living Edge Westshore food market which offers a food-bank-style opportunity for anyone to choose food items at no cost. Living Edge Westshore operates on Friday mornings in Langford.
Fresh produce from Porcher Park Community Garden is donated to Living Edge Westshore Food Market. [UFRIS – Aug 2025]
On the broader scale, UFRIS is working to see that food-growing capacity is included in all urban development permits across BC as well as organizing to facilitate disaster response food supply in earthquake-prone regions.
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