Hinton's Community Gardens Win Funds

The ACE alumni community of Hinton has received some great news recently! Their Hinton Community Garden Society can look forward to a healthy injection of funds next year after the community organization was named the recipient of the 2013 Canadian Tire Mayor’s Charity Event.

Mayor Ian Duncan made the announcement last week after the Garden Society was selected from nine applicants to be the focus of Hinton’s annual fundraising weekend in August. After forming three years ago, the Hinton Community Garden Society has seen operations grow at a rapid pace to more than 90 registered members growing food in two large greenhouses.

To read more about this, see this great article by Eric Plummer in the Hinton Parklander!

Hinton in the news!

Check out this link to a Hinton newspaper article describing the Communities in Bloom report for Hinton. Communities in Bloom is a volunteer based, Canadian non-profit organization, committed to fostering civic pride, environmental responsibility, beautification and to improving quality of life through community participation and the opportunity to participate in a national program. The Alberta Recreation and Parks Association oversees the Alberta's Provincial Edition of the Communities in Bloom initiative.

The last 2 paragraphs refer to the Hinton Community Garden that was part of the town’s ACE Communites initiative.

Good to see the continuing success with this project!

Official Launch of Hinton's Greenhouse

The Hinton Community Greenhouse is bursting with sweet red peppers, juicy tomatoes, strawberries, peas, squash and even cucumbers. What a time for thanks and celebration!

The Hinton Community Garden Society hosted a Grand Opening ceremony and harvest celebration on the Labour Day weekend and community residents all shared the local produce, success and new opportunities that this brings for Hinton! Starting out as one of the first ten Active Community partners (now ACE), this hard working group has created this “Third Place” where everyone can participate and be part of ensuring a local supply of fresh, organic produce!

Greenhouse founder, Jerome Cranston, said that: “since the plan was first dreamed up and presented to council in January 2009, there has been so much community support. This is really a grassroots project thanks to the thousands of hours of volunteer labour, and from the support of sponsors especially Kinder Morgan Canada, Alberta Recreation and Parks Association and the Town of Hinton”. Hinton is pleased to have a new executive lead by Noel Corser that is working hard to take this to the next level!

And to see pics of this great event, click here!

For more information on this amazing process please contact Kate Wright at kathrynwright77@hotmail.com or visit their website at http://hintoncommunitygreenhouse.org

Upcoming Grand Opening of Hinton Greenhouse

The HINTON Community Garden Society is so pleased to announce their grand opening celebration – slotted for the end of August! The north greenhouse is 100% filled and the south greenhouse will be ready for gardening in spring 2012. The outdoor gardens and site landscaping are currently underway thanks to thousands of volunteer hours and corporate donations.

The Hinton Community Garden project has three purposes:

· To improve Hinton’s food security by ensuring a perennial local supply of fresh, organic produce.
· To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by reducing the amount of fossil fuel used in the production, processing, and transport of food.
· To promote social cohesion and inclusiveness by functioning as a "Third Place" where everyone can participate.

Go to their website to see all the action and check out this blog!