Sign Up For A Community Garden Plot
How To Join
Garden plots are available for Richmond residents only.
Since plots in these gardens become available on a yearly basis, a wait list has been produced that will ensure you’ll be called on a first come first serve basis. Unfortunately, it generally takes about 2 years to be offered a plot. When a garden plot becomes available you will be notified by phone or email. (Please read more about how our wait list system works at the bottom of this page.)
Only after you’ve been notified that a garden plot is available, download, review and sign the rules document:
In order to register your name on the wait list, you must provide the following information:
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Email (if you have one)
- Which 2 community gardens for which you want to be wait listed
You can sign up for the wait list in the following ways:
Telephone – contact Richmond Food Security Society at (604) 244-7311 and leave a message with all the necessary information. Please note that we are only in the office on Mondays from 9am – 5pm. Please be patient your call in important to us. We will get back to you as soon as possible. If it is an emergency please call the Parks department at (604) 244-1208.
Online Form -Submit the form at the bottom of this page
Fax – send your information to (604) 277-7311
Mail – Richmond Food Security Society PO Box 22006 100-3675 Westminster Highway Richmond, BC V7C 5V2
How our wait list system works
- When an individual is assigned a garden, regardless of location, they are struck off our wait list.
- We cycle through the wait list when a garden becomes available and those at the top of the wait list have 48 hours to respond. If there is no response or that person declines they are rotated to the bottom of the wait list.
- It is up to wait listed individuals to inform us of any changes in phone numbers, address and emails addresses. Phone numbers and emails that are out of service will be struck from our database.
- Location of garden plots are luck of the draw. There are no guarantees in regards to condition and location of the garden plot. Gardens plots are “as is.”
- Gardeners on the wait list are requested to choose the two gardens closest to their home. If none are chosen we will allocate the two closest gardens based on their postal code.
- Gardeners who have gardens and want to transfer are given priority for the next yearly renewal cycle and must forfeit their current garden that following year.
