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260 Fourth St (1st house) - Barb & Barry Campbell - 1pm to 6pm

These gardeners high on the hill can speak to the challenges of growing atop a northfacing

slope with frequent westerlies. They also have compost secrets that prevent

smells and fruit flies as well as hasten the composting process. Ask to see the Lookout!

Parking: Please park on the street by the baseball field and walk up if possible.

601 Campbell St - Shelter Restaurant - 11am to 7pm

If you've eaten at Shelter in the past three months, you have more then likely eaten

something from their garden! This garden provides edibles for the restaurant and

recycles their food scraps from the kitchen. Highlights include a Sun-Mar barrel

composter and extensive worm composting system. Go to the back of the restaurant

and ask for Jeff or Joel.

320 Bond Lane - Arlene Craig - 2pm to 3pm

At 93, Arlene is probably Tofinos oldest gardener! This is a unique opportunity to tap

into her local traditional gardening wisdom and that of her daughter, Arlene McGuiness,

who was raised on her moms gardens from this area of the peninsula. The garden

includes a healthy fig tree and even a cut back kiwi tree that is starting to come back,

plus many other delights.

301 Tonquin Park Rd - Gill & Hilda Sadler- 11am to 2pm

These long-time local gardeners have honed their skills and varieties over the years to

successfully grow corn big enough to eat, fruit trees, berries plus tomatoes, cukes and 2

varieties of grape absolutely dripping with fruit in their greenhouse! Chickens too!

#12-295 Arnet - Chenoa Akey & Doreen Myers - 11am to 1pm

A great example of what you can do with condo gardening! Includes a small greenhouse

and many containers bearing strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, beets, greens, a

double crop of peas and more. Small space, big yield!

380 Gibson St - Adrienne Mason - 3pm to 7pm

This large garden contains all your favourite berries including heirloom cascade berries,

fruit trees, mason bees, and all kinds of vegetables from asparagus in raised beds to

tomatoes in a greenhouse.

150 Fourth St - Green Soul Organics - 11am to 7pm

As this store has grown, so has its container garden out front! Linger amongst the

greens, edible flowers, herbs and strawberries before you head in to buy your local

organics.

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Tofino Edible Garden Tour 2010 - Downtown map

* Please note that these maps are slightly inaccurate as they come from Google Maps.

Tour at your leisure within the times indicated for

each garden.

Biking & carpooling are encouraged!

Admission by donation to the Tofino Community Food

Initiative. Donation jars available at each garden.

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1084 Pacific Rim Hwy - Tofino Botanical Gardens - 11am to 7pm

The Darwin Cafes kitchen garden provides guests and visitors alike with everything

from berries and herbs to artichokes. There is also a medicinal garden in front of the

cafe that provides Carmen Bell with raw materials and inspiration for her line of

Clayoquot Botanicals. Ask for Mats or George in the cafe.

3 MacKenzie Beach Rd - Leah Austin & Jonathan Brooks - 3pm to 6pm

This is a multi-family garden that grows food all year long! Vegetables are grown in

locally enriched clay soil, all water is sourced from ponds on-site and seeds are

collected and shared.

619 Tibbs Pl - OCN Garden Centre - 11am to 5pm

Visit our local garden supplier, Trina, who has finished her summer garden and is now

preparing her winter garden with veggie starts. She will do a showcase of some of the

winter garden products from the garden centre and tell you what you need to do to get

started. Bring a little plastic container and Trina will set you up with some free root

conditioner for the new winter garden you are going to plant when you get home! Ask to

see the water collection system too!

1119 Fellowship Dr - Jenn Heckert - 1pm to 7pm

Come see how a rock pile has been transformed into a productive veggie garden fromwhich food is harvested daily! Organic fertilizers and local soil amendments feed this

garden and a water collection system quenches it's thirst. This garden also houses two

greenhouses, berries, edible flowers and herbs.

828 Ocean Park Dr - Suzanne & Jeff Mikus - 3:30pm to 7pm

Visit our local backyard chicken expert and her 6 egg-laying girls. Suzanne and Jeff have

transformed this back yard into an oasis of food, flowers and chickens. Pumpkins ooze

out of pots, beans, greens and more thrive in raised beds with unique roll-down cloches,

and tomatoes roll out of retired tires along the hot side of the house. Parking: Please

park across the road in the paved parking area.

1290 Lynn Road - Robert & Mara Love - 4pm to 7pmSee how this couple tackles growing food close to the ocean with year-round herbs on

the deck, a hand-made greenhouse with running water, a fan, and heat-activated roof

vents, and raised beds of berries, peas, greens and more. All this amongst their

backyard of driftwood benches and flower arbors! Ask about the amazing sand-point

well Robert created to water their abundant gardens. Parking: Please park on the

roadside.

1397 Pacific Rim Hwy - The Hearts Garden - 11am to 4pm

Craftiness and creativity abound in this yard where fruit trees, medicinals, herbs, edible

flowers, greens, berries, grapes and tomatoes in a hand-made greenhouse grow

between the kids climbing wall, beach log monkey bars and zipline. Although this edge-of-

town garden is one of the few in Tofino that gets shared with deer, bears have no

interest in their compost.

Tofino Edible Garden Tour 2010 - Out-of-Town map

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This event is brought to you by the:

Tofino Community Food Ini tiativeP.O. Box 391Tof ino, BC V0R 2Z0

tofinolocalfood@yahoo.ca

www.tofinofood.blogspot.com