The Gulch Garden - Trail, BC
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The Gulch Garden is to be seen along Highway 22/3B (Rossland Avenue) as it passes through "The Gulch" on the western edge of Trail.
Waymark Code: WMRCVZ
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 06/10/2016
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The Gulch was a predominately Italian neighborhood on the western edge of Trail, with a smattering of Irish mixed in, most of the original residents being immigrants attracted to Trail in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the appeal of steady work at the Cominco Smelter. The garden is near the centre of the Gulch, across the street from Colombo Hall, a large brick building completed in 1927 to house Cristoforo Colombo Lodge Mutuo Soccorso No. 1, a benevolent society created in 1905 for Italian immigrants.
The garden presently uses raised beds arrayed within a parking area. The use of portable raised beds makes the garden easily expandable. The organizers of the garden have shown some true genius in the area of recycling and repurposing. Though the majority of the beds are built of wood, as is the norm for garden beds, the taller ones toward the rear are actually repurposed freezers, painted and prettied by a local artist.
Completely manned by local volunteers, the produce from the garden goes to Trail food banks.