Community Urban Food Forest + Permaculture Garden Victoria, BC.

Welcome to Spring Ridge Commons

Community Urban Food Forest + Permaculture Garden Victoria, BC

Spring Ridge Commons

A garden of possibility......

“Imagine a green space in the heart of your neighbourhood designed to provide fresh organic food, conserve and recycle resources, create native bird/insect habitat, and generally improve the local quality of life.”

—  Geoff Johnson, Originator

About Spring Ridge Commons

Spring Ridge Commons is an example of what is possible when you transform an under-utilized, marginal spaces ( a barren gravel lot) 

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into a productive space both in terms of yields such as food and medicines

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and in terms of social yields such as experiences of beauty, nature and solitude,

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a sense of belonging through contribution to a common space

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and place making........

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and experimenting with new relationships to land and people.

The site establishes common ground between all people who

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Safety Comfort

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Spring Ridge Commons: Bee in the Garden

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Spring Ridge Commons Primary

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Friends of the Spring Ridge Commons Society

“Friends of the Spring Ridge Commons” became a society under the BC Societies Act on July 6, 2012 for the following  purposes:

a.  To preserve and protect the Spring Ridge Common(s) as a community open space that is freely accessible to the neighbourhood and the larger community.b.  To ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of the Common(s) as a community site, open to all by providing opportunities for people to experience community through shared management of the commons and hands-on knowledge sharing about permaculture design techniques and ecologically sound food growing practices.c.  To provide a cultivated wild habitat in which birds, bees and other insects can thrive.d.  To promote permaculture as well as other organic agricultural practices on the site.e.  To preserve and protect fruit/production trees, shrubs, herbs and perennials that are free to harvest by all.The by-laws of the society are those set out in Schedule B to the Society Act.

History of Spring Ridge Commons