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BOULEVARD GARDENS Feeding the City, One Boulevard at a Time
JULIE BARNES Lisa Taylor has a lot on her plate these days, and it’s all related to what ends up on our plates. She divides her days between a part-time job with the University of Saskatchewan’s fruit breeding program, growing food for two local restaurants (she plants, tends to and harvests greens
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and herbs forThe Hollows and Primal Pasta), and along with her husband Jason, she also manages her latest venture— BiodiverCity Farm. “We grow food in the city in as sustainable a manner as possible,” she says. “We have customers who buy a share in our CSA, which stands for
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community supported agriculture. Then, throughout the summer, they get a food basket delivered to them every week with whatever vegetables and fruits are ready at that time.” Any excess is sold to local restaurants. Two of her four garden plots are located on city
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boulevards, and as she grows her business, she says she’ll be looking to leverage more of this prime growing space. In yards, “sometimes there’s a lot of shade due to fences, buildings and trees. The boulevard is often an area that’s out in the open and gets lots of sun.”