Guelph to open pop-up space at Shelldale Centre
Global News
The plazaPOPS program in partnership with Our Food Future will see benches and garden boxes installed in the parking lot.
Something is popping up at the Shelldale Centre.
The City of Guelph is bringing back the plazaPOPS program this summer with the help of Our Food Future’s Reimagine Food initiative.
The project will see a gathering space and garden boxes installed inside the parking lot of the centre.
“It’s benches, garden boxes with fresh herbs and pollinator plants, shade structure and umbrellas,” said Ashlee Cooper, manager of food equity and community resiliency at the City of Guelph.
“It’s really taking an underutilized public space, making it inviting, making it a place where people can gather and enjoy their time outside together.”
Work on the installation of the benches and garden boxes will begin Wednesday. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington, the local Onward Willow community will be putting together the space.
The SEED at Guelph Community Health Centre and Shelldale Farm Park community gardeners will be planting the herbs and maintaining the garden boxes. Access to the space is being provided by Kindle Communities.
Cooper said the space will situated next to the Shelldale Community Gardens.
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