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Organic Produce grown locally in Ottawa, right in your own yard!

Our goal at VegetablePatch.ca is to inspire organic living right within the city center. We take under-used green spaces in Ottawa, Canada, and turn them into beautiful and healthy vegetable gardens. The resulting business is a wonderfully low impact means of producing and distributing sustainably grown market produce. We achieve this in two ways, through our land sharing projects and through our local basket delivery service. Get involved and together we shall infuse some much needed environmentally sustainable vitality directly into the city. What could possibly feel better?

This season we have set a goal to build a strong and dedicated army of urban farming volunteers! If you would like to get your hands dirty, love fresh air, and are interested in learning how to grow delicious food of your own, then we want you! Stay informed about volunteer opportunities and other interesting news by joining our newsletter.

Here are four ways in which you can get involved with VegetablePatch:

   1. Buy a weekly vegetable share through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project

   2. Visit us at the Main Street Farmers Market

   3. Share your backyard with us! Allow us to turn your backyard into an urban farm plot

   4. Volunteer with us!

Cheers,

Jesse, Kirsten and Genevieve

May 9th, 2010

Some recent media attention:

On April 19th, Jesse and Genevieve were interviewed live on CBC radio's Ottawa Morning with Kathleen Petty. Click here to go to the Ottawa Morning archives. Just scroll down to find the VegetablePatch segment.

On May 5th, VegetablePatch.ca was featured on an episode of the World, a radio program that is broadcase to over 300 cities across the United States. To listen to the episode Click here. The segment about VegetablePatch.ca is about a third of the way into the show.

Also, an article written by Kathleen Wilker appears in the current Spring 2010 issue of “Ottawa Outdoors Magazine” To read the article Click here. Here is a list of locations where you can pick up a copy of Ottawa Outdoors.

The main reason Jesse started VP was to promote urban farming and encourage smart sustainable food production in cities across Canada. The recent spike in interest about what we are doing here in Ottawa is more then humbling. It is a sign that citizens support business based on principles of community sharing and cooperation. This year for VegetablePatch.ca tastes like it might contain a tsp of success and the potential of achieving those goals. It is super encouraging and makes us feel very proud.

April 19, 2010

The planting season has already started for the early crops and garden construction will also begin starting this tuesday. We will be in the Pleasant Park/Alta Vista area tomorrow from 8:30am till dusk ripping up 4 new gardens. If you would like to join us tomorrow or any day in the future please sign up for our newsletter or feel free to contact us about volunteering.

April 10, 2010

We are currently seeking to form relationships with residents who have productive edible fruit trees on their propery. We propose to come pick the fruit, clean-up the windfalls and divide the haul into several shares; a share of fruit for you, some for our CSA participants, and possibly a share donated to the local food bank. No sense in wasting delicious local fruit. Please contact us.

April 2, 2009

Check out the article written by Laura Payton that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen today featuring Jesse and VegetablePatch.ca. Thanks to Pat McGrath for the photos.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Life/empty+gardens+this+entrepreneur/1453776/story.html

March 30, 2009

We are still a long way from our goal of selling all 50 shares this season. Lend us a hand and spread the word. Put a VegetablePatch.ca poster in your lunch/coffee room at work. Click here to see our posters and handouts. Click here to sign up for your share of delicious weekly vegetables.

March 5, 2009

It has been a long winter, but we are gearing up for the approaching 2009 season. We have finally completed our new sign-up page and account login. In 2009 we will be following a CSA style model and have 50 full shares of our produce to offer to individuals and families. So do not delay, check it out and sign-up for your share of delicious weekly vegetables NOW!

Nov 8, 2008

Listen to Amrita Singh talk about VegetablePatch.ca on CBC Radio One's In Town & Out with Michael Bhardwaj.

Amrita Singh is part of the Living in Ottawa team. Living in Ottawa airs every weekday at 3 PM on CBC Television and is hosted by Maureen Welch. Recently Jesse (founder of VegetablePatch.ca) joined Amrita at her home to talk about how to prepare your own vegetable patch this fall for next year's growing season. They also talked through the ins and outs of planting garlic for next year. The segments were filmed and will appear on Living in Ottawa on Nov 10th and 13th respectively. The episodes will be posted here after they air and are available online.

Living in Ottawa is a show that guides viewers to places in and around the city and offers ideas and tips on how to best enjoy Ottawa.

When Amrita isn't reporting she's producing content for Living in Ottawa, and when she isn't working she's volunteering, reading, and generally living it up in our great city.

Amrita joins Michael Bhardwaj on In Town and Out every Saturday morning to feature one of her stories from Living in Ottawa.

Contact Amrita:
amrita.singh@cbc.ca

May 20, 2008

Listen to Jesse talk about VegetablePatch.ca on CBC Radio One's All in a day with Adrian Harewood.