Garden Party and Open House at Montreal's Rooftop Garden!!!

Contact: Jane Rabinowicz tel. 514.286.5115 jane@santropolroulant.org

When and Where: Tuesday, June 21, 5:30-8pm, in the Rooftop Garden @ 4750 Henri Julien

The Rooftop Garden Project cordially invites you to our Second Annual Garden Party! This year we are opening the garden in style, donning our best whites and wide brimmed hats to launch the growing season for Montreal's only soil-less rooftop garden. Enjoy great conversation with a diverse constituency of garden supporters, innovators, volunteers and partners. Sample gourmet food and drinks from Santropol Roulant's meals-on-wheels kitchen.

The Evening Unfolds: Eat, drink and explore. After short presentations from the project team and generous supporters, explore the garden, enjoy the photo exhibition, and dig deeper into the evolution of Montreal's urban landscape.
The Rooftop Garden Project is an innovative partnership between international development organisation, Alternatives and local community organization, Santropol Roulant. We seek to make widespread rooftop gardening and food provision a reality in Montreal and around the world. Our novel gardening methods empower local residents to green their neighbourhoods and improve their health while liberating previously un-used urban spaces such as Montreal's rooftops.

Our demonstration garden is in the heart of the Plateau Mont Royal. Santropol Roulant and Alternatives volunteers work together applying new hands-on solutions that link local food production with food security, nutrition, and environmental health - while providing Santropol Roulant's meals on wheels service with delicious fresh produce in the summer!

The Rooftop Garden Project would like to thank our supporters and partners: the Public Health Agency of Canada, les Fonds d'action Quebecois pour le developpement durable, Environment Canada, the City of Montreal, the EJLB Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, Foundation of Greater Montreal, the International Development Research Centre, and the University of Quebec.

Alternatives www.alternatives.ca
Alternatives responds to the needs and ideas of progressive Canadians, who are working together to counter poverty, racism and social exclusion in Quebec, Canada, and around the world. Alternatives is promoting rooftop gardening as a new opportunity for urban residents to engage in a healthy and enjoyable activity that can improve their quality of life offer a new income generating activity to the urban poor in developing countries.

Santropol Roulant www.santropolroulant.org
Through an innovative meals-on-wheels service, intergenerational activities and volunteer programs, Santropol Roulant provides enriching social experiences and aims to address the health and food security needs of seniors and Montrealers living with a loss of autonomy. Santropol Roulant, founded by young people, will be coordinating the rooftop garden volunteers, organizing events at the garden for the Santropol Roulant community, establishing a compost for kitchen waste, and using the garden produce for the meals-on-wheels services.

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