Langley's community garden community is flourishing. Through active public participation residents are contributing towards making their gardens a place of comfort, beauty and abundance.

A community garden is a piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. Each community garden is uique since each garden is made up of individuals. These individual gardeners bring different skills, talents, and interests to the garden and really shape the community environment. Generally, community gardens have the following features:

• Managed and maintained through active participation of gardeners themselves, rather than a staff member or hired landscape company
• Membership fees are paid by gardeners to support garden maintenance
• Growing food for consumption (ie beans, squash, garlic, tomatoes, etc) is encouraged
• Gardens have a combination of delineated plots that are leased by individual gardeners and families as well as communal areas with shared upkeep such as toolsheds and compost bins
• Gardening times is sunrise to sunset