The Site
This site is located in Beban Park right between the little red barns and the Pitch and Putt Golf Course, accessed from the Overflow Parking lot. (map) 
You can park in Beban Park or use BC Transit route planner to come to the garden. The site was designed and built around our greenhouse, which is 25′ x 75′ and has 18 convertible planter boxes where we grow produce in soil part of the year and cover with a work surface and seedling pots part of the year. As well, there are a small clubhouse/office, a toolshed, a large gravel-covered yard containing 22 large planter boxes, some lawn with picnic tables, a few fruit trees, berry bushes, and a grape trellis. It is surrounded by chain-link fence and cedar hedges.
Membership
Join our wonderful community of gardeners growing co-operatively.
Membership in Nanaimo Community Gardens Society is required and is $25 per year. Please contact us if you have difficulty paying the fee.
We welcome people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities. No previous experience is necessary and all work is done according to one’s own comfort level. Everyone shares in the planning, the work, and the harvest.
At present time, we hold one work party every Wednesday from 10 to noon, year-round.
What We Do
In our greenhouse, we grow a wide selection of heirloom vegetable starter plants, using organic methods. These plants are then:
. Sold to local gardeners, the revenue helping to sustain our program
. Donated to support school gardens
. Donated to community programs
. Grown at our site and harvested by members
New Additions
During the past few years, we have been able to continue enhancing the Beban Learning Gardens. We built a covered shelter area to be use for open air workshops, plant sales, and as a workspace. We also created a large pollinator garden in the centre of the yard. Our busy team built a “screen house” to hold cool weather seedlings in spring and seedlings we start during the summer for fall planting.
For further information about BLG, contact blg@ncgs.ca
Nanaimo Community Gardens Society would like to thank all our supporters both LARGE and small for the help you have given us with our new greenhouse and site.
Federated Cooperatives Ltd. – Community Spaces
The City of Nanaimo
The Nanaimo Foundation
Home Depot
First West Foundation
Sawmill Sales Direct
Archie Johnstone Plumbing and Heating
Island West Coast Developments
Island Aggregate
ShareCost
Mayco Mix
Mazzei Electric
Bedrock Redi-Mix
Tess Contractors
VIU Construction Program
VIU Horticulture Program
Old City Investment Services
Integral Wealth
Highline Environmental
Earthbank
Cinnabar Valley
Island Savings
DBL Disposal Services
Coastal Community Credit Union
Leonard Krog
Pheasant Hill Homes
Paul Manly
LANARC Consultants
RJC Engineers
Home Hardware
Gallazin Locks
Westburne
Torbram Electric Supply
Guillevin
NEDCO
Hub City Survey
Lewkowich Engineering
Weatherwise
Canadian Tire
Master Gardeners