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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Thursday, July 15, 2010 · 20 Health and Wellness Vegetable gardens are no longer just for your backyard Whole Foods Market, along with partners Transition Oakville, Oakvillegreen, Fern Ridge Landscaping and Peace, Love & Landscaping are inviting the community to help them "take back the land" by turning a piece of concrete in the store's parking lot into a lush vegetable garden. "Sustainable gardening is gaining in popularity and we want to show people how easy it is to change something as hard as concrete into a living, growing showpiece," explains France Fournier, Marketing and Community Relations for Whole Foods Market. "Our hope is to educate our customers and show them how easy it is to grow herbs, veggies, or whatever strikes their fancy," she says. With a goal in mind to make the store a more inviting place to be and to ensure that they were giving back to the community, a community garden seemed to be an ideal initiative to highlight Whole Foods Market's core values of caring for the environment and community. "Our customers tell us they want to know where the food is coming from and more and more people are interested in growing their own produce." The community is welcome to get their hands dirty alongside Whole Foods Market Team Members to plant a variety of vegetables and flowers in Oakville's newest community garden on Saturday, July 17 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Local experts will be on-hand to teach sustainable, edible, urban gardening. Wolfegang Bonham of Peace, Love & Landscaping and Sean James of Fern Ridge Landscaping will show people how to construct a raised garden, and will answer questions on composting, mixing ornamentals with vegetables, lateseason gardening and more. Representatives from Transition Oakville and Oakville Green will also be available to share information about their organizations and how Oakvillians can get involved. The store hopes to share the produce with the community, as well as use the garden as a means to educate people on the importance of appreciating freshly grown produce and how to grow it themselves. "Whole Foods Market chefs will use some of the produce in our kitchen and any extra can be donated to local food banks." Once completed, the garden will become a part of Whole Foods Market and its upkeep will be the responsibility of their Green Mission Team members. For more information about the community garden contact Whole Foods Market at 905-849-8400 or visit the store located at 301 Cornwall Road. The Oakville location of Whole Foods Market has teamed up with different community groups to transform a dull slab of concrete in front of the store into an urban vegetable garden. 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