PEI Food Exchange
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Growing food

Why grow your own food?​

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Fresh picked food has more flavour and higher nutritional value.

Your own food supply makes you more resilient in the face of ​fluctuating food prices.
 

​Access to food that can be harvested, prepared and fed to your family daily during the growing season.
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Preserve your harvest to feed your family even when the growing season is over.


Lack land?


 Join a community garden. Here's a list of community gardens on PEI.


Lack knowledge?



There are all kinds of resources available - on line and in the public libraries. Check out our Edible Gardening For Beginners toolkit in the Resources section of this web site. 

There are a number of gardening workshops you can take. If you follow the Food Exchange PEI facebook you will see notice of workshops.


Check out the Food Exchange Garden Party a facebook event where people discuss what has worked for them on PEI.

The following facebook groups on PEI may be of interest:
  PEI Animal and Bug Friendly Gardeners Group 
PEI Vegetable Share
  PEI Gardening
  PEI Foraging Friends
  
East Coast Garden Lifestyles


We gather to make 100 meals for people in need twice a month. Volunteers are invited to take meals home. One of the cook days has a foraged food theme.  Email us to join. 
  • Home
  • About
    • Guiding Principles
    • Food Security on PEI
    • Contact
  • Gleaning
  • Growing Food
    • Community Gardens on PEI
  • Gaining Knowledge
  • Resources
    • List of CSA's on PEI