Fairfield Community Gardens
Welcome to the Fairfield Community Gardens! We are currently managing the Fairfield Food Forest & the Ross Bay Native Plant Garden. Learn more about the gardens and how to get involved.
Upcoming Work Parties:
Fairfield Food Forest: Fall Work Party
Date: Saturday, September 20
Time: 1:00- 4:00 PM
Location: Ross Bay Native Plant Garden
Description: Get your hands dirty and help put the Ross Bay garden to bed for the fall/winter!
Ross Bay Native Plant Garden: Fall Work Party
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 1:00- 4:00 PM
Location: Fairfield Food Forest
Description: Help top up the garden beds in the food forest! Lay compost, leaf mulch, and wood chips in the garden while meeting fellow gardeners in your neighbourhood.
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Please contact us for more information on how to participate
Ross Bay Native Plant Garden
Location: Between Ross Bay Cemetery and Memorial Crescent. It extends from Dallas road to Bushby St.
This Ross Bay Native Plant Garden has officially been installed and opened the summer 2024.
Salt-spray and wind resistant native plants are planted on the site. It is a natural community gathering area where anyone can come and learn about coastal plants that thrive in our area.
Some plants that we know will thrive in this area include:
Ocean Spray, Oregon Grape, Nodding Onion, Sword fern, Junegrass, Seablush, Evergreen huckleberry, Snowberry, Pearly Everlasting, Woolly sunflower and more
More information & FAQs on this project here
Fairfield Food Forest
Location: Porter Park, on Thurlow Rd between Kipling & Durban Streets.
Fairfield Food Forest is a permaculture garden growing a wide variety of small trees, berry shrubs, herbs and more!
Everyone is welcome to visit the Food Forest at any time to grow and harvest food while following permaculture techniques. This is not meant to be a vegetable garden but instead be a garden where anyone can come to and cultivate plants for the whole community can enjoy for years to come.
Some things that need to be done in this garden include: tree pruning, weeding, compost mulching, under-story planting, irrigation revamping, preparation for installation of a second fence to encircle the rest of the garden.
There are many edible and medicinal plants in the Food Forest! Click the plant maps below:
Fairfield Community Gardens are supported financially by the City of Victoria