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Green & Gold Community Garden
The Green & Gold Community Garden is a joint project of the School of Public Health and the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences.
The garden occupies about two acres on the University of Alberta’s South Campus. It is run entirely by volunteers — both the labour and the seeds and plants are donated. A large variety of vegetables, including many heirloom varieties, herbs and flowers are grown.
All proceeds from the garden go to the Tubahumurize Association, in Rwanda. Tubahumurize is a not-for-profit organization that supports socially and economically marginalized women through counselling, vocational training, health education, and employment opportunities.
Most of the women who benefit from Tubahumurize are survivors of the Rwandan genocide; many are widows, orphans, HIV-infected or victims of physical violence.
Last year's support
In 2011, the garden’s third summer of operation, we raised $22,000 from donations for produce from the garden. All of this (100%) will go to support the programs of Tubahumurize. An additional $3,734 was raised from sales of the handicrafts made by the women of Tubahumurize.
Support the garden - Support Tubahumurize
Supporting Tubahumurize and the garden is easy – just purchase your vegetables from the garden during the harvest season.
Customers are asked to “donate” for the vegetables they take. Donations should be based on what you would pay for good quality, organic produce in a farmers’ market.
Because of the wonderful support from donors and from the hard-working volunteers, we are able to send every penny of these donations to Tubahumurize.
Interested in getting more involved?
To learn more about getting involved with the garden - as a volunteer or as a garden "customer" - please visit our FAQs.