Tofino Edible Garden Tour 2009

Interested in growing your own food?

Here's an opportunity to visit an assortment of gardens, meet some of our community's gardeners and see how to successfully grow your own food.

Already growing your own food?

Take part in the tour to network with other gardeners, share tips and stories and help build our local food system.

How do you participate?

Print out this map and tour the gardens at your leisure between 4pm and 8pm on Wednesday August 19th. Biking and Carpooling are encouraged!

***In lieu of admission fees, please bring along a non-perishable food donation to the Food Bank on the Edge &/or a cash donation to the Tofino Community Food Initiative. Donation boxes will be available at any of the gardens on the tour.

Participating Gardens

250 1st Street - Eileen Floody

A brand new garden making use of limited space and plants/seeds obtained from other gardens in Tofino. Also on display is an electric composter, which makes nutrient rich fertilizer every two weeks!

380 Gibson Street - Adrienne Mason

This is one of the larger and more established vegetable gardens on the tour, with a great variety of vegetables, herbs and berries. Highlights include heirloom Cascade berries and asparagus.

150 Campbell Street - Green Soul Organics

Not only is Green Soul Organics the place to get vegetables you aren't growing yourself, it also has its own container garden with a great selection of edible flowers.

260 Lone Cone Road, Dan & Mollie Law

This garden shows that it.s not too difficult to grow your own edibles as well as raise a family! Must-see features are the productive berries and herbs as well as backyard chickens.

1084 Pacific Rim Highway - Botantical Gardens

Vegetables, medicinal plants and herbal teas are on display at the Botanical Gardens! The highlight of this stop is local herbalist Carmen Bell, who will be available to show you which herbs to grow in your garden at home. The on-site cafe harvests veggies & edible flowers from their kitchen garden daily.

3 MacKenize Beach Road - Poole's Land

This is a multi-family garden that grows food all year long! Vegetables are grown in locally enriched clay soil, all water is sourced from ponds on-site and seeds are collected and shared.

619 Tibbs Place - OCN

**NOTE** tour from 4-6pm only. Visit our local gardening supplier, Trina, who will show you her family's container gardens brimming with fall and winter vegetables.

652 Shore Pine Road - Ricenda Pease

Here you will find a garden full of of character and beautifully landscaped in edible berries, flowers and veggies. Be sure to check out the coldframes and greenhouse made from recycled windows as well as the antique water barrels and pumps.

824 Ocean Park Drive - Suzanne Mikus

With corn ears ripening & winter squash already started, this garden shows that you can indeed grow anything in Tofino. A key feature of this garden is the laying hens which not only provide eggs and fertilizer but also make great pets!

706 Ocean Park - Jerry and Jessica Boy

This family has a greenhouse teeming with tomatoes and cucumbers and grows an abundance of food outdoors using bio-intensive gardening methods. This garden is a true example of how to make the most of a small space.

1398 Pacific Rim Highway - Norma Dryden

This garden evolved with the mentality "anything goes", which has proved to be a successful approach. Vegetables and ornamentals are intermixed in such a way that you feel like you have stumbled upon a rainforest oasis. Be sure to take note of the rain collection system.