Just across the parking lot is the Bloomfield Community Garden, which was built in 2008 at the corner of Almon and Agricola streets. The garden added some much needed green space to the neighbourhood, and was tended by neighborhood residents and community organizations. In 2010 Imagine Bloomfield and the Ecology Action Centre started to think of how wonderful it would be to build a community greenhouse next to the garden that would be able to extend the growing season throughout the cold winter.
And just like that - an idea, like a seed, was planted.
Once we had the idea, we needed to figure out all the details: who would use the building, what would be the best design, and how would we pay for it. Once we had a plan in place, we spent the next year and a half fundraising, designing and consulting with gardeners. The greenhouse was completed in September, 2011.