CAMPUS GARDENS

Loyola Campus – part of the Loyola Farm, located beside the solar house

This perennial garden boasts many varieties of medicinal and culinary herbs. with a balanced ecosystem to support all the plants.

Sir George Williams Campus - Hall building on the 13th floor

The Greenhouse provides a welcoming, organic green space that fosters community by providing experiential learning opportunities within a year-round growing environment.

Please note that volunteer opportunities are very limited during the summer due to excessive heat in the greenhouse.

Loyola Campus - behind Psychology Building

These gardens are host to perennial plant species native to Quebec which provide important food and habitat for local pollinator species. What once were two student-led projects are now one great opportunity to learn more about our native plants and pollinators — all while having fun in the gardens!

Loyola Campus – part of the Loyola Farm, this plot is located at the northern-most corner of the campus, north of Rue Terrebonne.

CultivAction is a non-profit solidarity cooperative of urban farmers working with community organizations to create a more sovereign local food system.  They offer a variety of programing including volunteer opportunities, urban agriculture courses, CSA baskets and more.

CultivAction's Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership is an affordable and convenient way to get fresh, farm-direct, local produce. 

CSA basket pick-ups are every Tuesday from 4–7 p.m. at the Loyola Campus from June 27 until October 31.

Volunteer this summer for lunchtime gardening sessions at the Grey Nun’s Gardens. The team will revive the raised bed plots to grow a mix of vegetables, herbs and flowers. No experience or commitment necessary.

Loyola Campus: Part of the Loyola farm, located across from the solar house on the northern most part of the campus.

Hamidou Horticulture grows African and ethnic vegetables in Quebec. They offer courses on growing, sell vegetable baskets, and produce seedlings and plants. They also grow and save their own vegetable seeds.

Loyola Campus - in front of the Hingston Hall (HA) building

mind.heart.mouth. uses garden-based learning and sensory experience theories to create workshops and spaces that increase awareness and foster stronger connections with our natural environments and the food production process.

Loyola campus - multiple locations

A collaborative urban mini-forest project with over 188 indigenous trees encourages biodiversity by attracting pollinators and providing food and habitat for local wildlife.

Loyola Campus -part of the Loyola Farm, this garden is located inside a fence on the corner of Terrebonne, east of Hingston Hall (HA).

The People's Potato community garden is a space that encourages volunteering while providing the community with access to fresh and organic vegetables.

Sankofa Farming Cooperative is calling on Africans, Afro-descendant and Black-Indigenous peoples to reclaim and seek the wisdom of their roots through teach-ins, workshops, media projects, Black-Indigenous farming, gardening, storytelling and rituals.