Beban Learning Gardens

The Site

This site is located in Beban Park behind the new PickleBall Courts and beside the Pitch and Putt Golf Course. Search for Beban Learning Garden on either Apple or Google Maps to find your way to us! On some paper maps we are listed as Nanaimo Community Garden Society. (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 gazebo, a screenhouse, a large gravel-covered yard containing 22 large planter boxes, picnic tables, fruit trees, berry bushes, and grape trellis.  It is surrounded by chain-link fence.

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.

We hold one work party every Wednesday from 10 to noon, year-round. Information on seasonal work parties is found on the left of this webpage.

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 programs

. Donated to support school gardens (more info here)

. Donated to community programs (more info here)

. Grown at our sites and harvested by members

. Currently excess vegetables are shared with the community at Foodshares Good Food Box pickup in Beban Park

More about the transplants is found here

 

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

Cinnabar Valley

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

SeaSoil

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