The garden is open for visitation all year long; our growing season is from May to October, please check our website for programming and events. The Children’s Garden, at the corner of Main and Clegg in Old Ottawa East, is Ottawa’s first dedicated children’s garden. Its big purpose is to serve as a space to engage and educate the senses, the mind and the imagination in terms of our relationships with nature. In May of 2008, Robert Legget Park was a virtually unused patch of grass with a few trees. Today it is alive with organic food-growing beds, a woodland garden, a bursting-with-colour fence painted by Lady Evelyn kids, a beautiful stone pathway, a seating circle for story-time and activities, a composter, and a variety of shrubs and trees. It has hosted play-groups, art-making workshops, organic gardening workshops, harvest feasts and more. It is a “giving garden,” an idea promoted by the late local farmer and bee-keeper Terry McEvoy. So anyone is welcome to help out in the garden, and to harvest from the garden. Of course, the target audience is kids, but we need adults (with or without kids) to keep things happening and to stay ahead of the weeds. If you have even just an hour here and there throughout the season to help out, we’d love to hear from you. Eat a cucumber. Pull some weeds. For listings of Garden events, activities and workshops, please see our pinned post or contact us at [email protected]
