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Huge support in Ripley for Bruce Botanical Food Gardens By Liz Dadson |
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 Ripley-Huron Community School students, staff and parents, are joined by Huron-Kinloss Township council members and staff, as well as Lynne Taylor and Heather Pletch, co-ordinator of the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens, in their support of the project, slated to be built on Park Street in Ripley  Cheering support for the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens  Supporting the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens are Huron-Kinloss mayor Mitch Twolan (L), sustainable project designer Lynne Taylor, township staff Tracey Howe, Taralyn Martin, Mary Rose Walden, Phyllis Hunter, Sonya Watson and Joanna Mallott, deputy mayor Wilfred Gamble, and Heather Pletch, grant researcher and sustainable community facilitator | |||||
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About 250 Ripley-Huron Community School students, staff, parents, and Huron-Kinloss council members and staff gathered in the school gymnasium to register their support for the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens. Slated to be built on Park Street in Ripley, the project is in the running for funding through the Aviva Community Fund competition. If it wins, the project could receive between $100,000 and $150,000. People have until Wednesday (Oct. 19) to vote for the project, says Lynn Taylor, sustainable project designer. To do this, they must visit the website: www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf11223 and place their vote. Deadline is Oct. 19 for the first round of voting. Round two runs Oct. 24 to Nov. 9, and round three runs Nov. 14-30, with the semi-finals on Dec. 6-16. Registration requires that the voter enters only an E-mail and
password in order to vote, or log in through his/her facebook page. Taylor is urging everyone to participate. A vote for
the gardens is a vote for Bruce County. For more information about the gardens,
check the website at www.bbfg.org Phase one, on about three acres of land, is slated to begin in the spring of 2012, and will include an extension of the entrance road, a crop of sunflowers and a corn maze for income generation, underground tank for watering, lighting and drainage, and main walkways. Phase two includes parking, a second underground
holding tank for watering, and more lighting, drainage and main walkways.
Phase three includes garden construction and installation of standing stones and associated gardens, plus more lighting, drainage and walkways. A possible fourth phase would see a new washroom building added, and a new greenhouse/teaching area.
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Taylor says the gardens project will develop the potential of
agritourism, edutourism, and the arts, increase community pride and
participation, build on existing strengths and exemplify community assets,
provide opportunity for skills and general interest development of all age
groups and all levels of ability, increase cultural opportunities, strengthen
community voluntarism, and address the concerns of a new sustainable economy by
building community resilience to peak oil and climate change.
The project provides a wide variety of programming opportunities, says Taylor, including a youth swap program, alternative building workshops, working with youth at risk and adult redirection programs, develop a major culinary program and events, recreational opportunities, special events, business development, socially-supportive projects providing fresh, nutritional foods, and potential for a Community Nutrition and Food Security Learning Centre. Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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