ArugulaBasilBok ChoyBroccoliCantaloupeCherry TomatoesChivesCilantroCucumberDillEdible FlowersEggplantGreen Beans

Green PeppersGround CherriesLettuceLeeksMintOnionsParsleySquashSwish chardThai BasilTomatoesCucumber

Maturity Time for Selected Crops

CELERY ONIONS

LEEKECANTALOUPE

EGGPLANTTOMATOELETTUCE

BROCOLICUCUMBERSGREEN BEANSGREEN PEPPERSSWISS CHARD

40 60 70 80 90 100

Crop Type

Selected plants Edible Flower Vegetable Garden Plants

This collaborative project of Alternatives, the Minimum Cost Housing Group of McGill’s School of Architecture and Santropol Roulant is supported by the Sustainability Projects Fund of McGill University.

For more information, visit www.mcgill.ca/mchg/ www.santropolroulant.org

To volunteer, contact: green@santropolroulant.orgor 514.284.9335

GROWINGCROPS

HARVEST PREPARING FOOD

PACKING DISTRIBUTING FOOD

WASTE COMPOST SEEDING PLANTING

T H E E D I B L E C A M P U S F O O D C Y C L E

School Of Architecture, McGill UniversityMirna Wasef Supervised by Prof Vikram Bhatt Sure poster presentation 2012

The edible campus is a model garden to empower ordinary people by producing their own vegetables, greening their neighbourhoods and together they work to build healthy communities. Installed in 2007, the garden has grown every year and as a model, it has proven itself to be sustainable and ecological.

• Demonstrate ways to weave productive planting into urban spaces.• To augment food production in cities.• maximize use of underutilized and neglected spaces, such as urban corridors, rooftops, terraces etc.• Provide an action research project for students interested in the betterment of the environment.

PartnershipTHE EDIBLE CAMPUS

URBAN DESIGN - Multifunctionality - Revitalization - Beauti�cation

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY - Food Security - Reducing Food Miles - Community Involvement - Social Inclusion - Children Education

ENVIRONMENTALSUSTAINABILITY - Reducing carbon Footprint and Waste - Recycle and Reuse

EDIBLE PLANTS

ECOLOGICAL CONTAINERS

COMMUNITY GARDENS

This containerized garden is part of an urban food chain: the organic garden is cultivated in downtown Montreal, its harvest is walked or bicycled to Santropol Roulant’s kitchen, where it is transformed into nutritious food. Prepared meals are delivered to clients who have mobility impairments; breaking their social and economic isolation. It meets 1/3rd daily requirements of fresh organic vegetables of Santropol Roulant’s meals on Wheels program that goes out to about 100 clients, making it an ideal model of complete urban food cycle.

The Project is a true University-Community partnership: The University provides the space to grow and the Minimum Cost Housing Group’s researchers designed the garden and coordinate the project; the garden is maintained by Santropol Roulant with help of volunteers. The organic harvest from the garden goes to the meals-on-wheels program that delivers nutritious food to the mobility impaired breaking their social isolation

SPRING

SUMMER

FALL AND WINTER

March- MayFirst yearFemales build nests6-8 eggs per hole

Bees grow from Egg to Larva

Bee Larva enters Pupal stage in the summer

Fully developed bees hibernate until spring

Fully developed bees hibernate until spring

The collaboration between the Minimum Cost Housing Group and Santropol Roulant hosted two hives on McGill’s Frank Dawson Adams building as a part of the Edible Campus Project. The strategic location of the hives on the FDA adjoining the Edible Campus conceivably contributes to the pollinating of the vegetation as well as the weekly harvest. Like miniature farmworkers, honey bees transport pollen from one tree to another.

The Edible campus occupies a quarter acre of land with 275 self-watering containers and three permanent gardens. In 2010 alone, one ton of produce including over 30 di�erent plant species of more than 50 varieties was harvested.

Bees tongue

Plants stigma

Stigma touching bee

Pollen sticks to the haris of the bees body

Ripe anther touching bee

MINIMUM COST HOUSIGN GROUP

Companion PlantingMarigolds

How?Produces pesticides repels pests such as

tomato hornworm, nematodes.

Radish

How?Distracts pest such as the cucum-

ber beetle.

OnionsGarlicLeek

How?Uses scent to disguise plants from

slugs, carrot root �ies, aphids.

Planting techniques

New adult(Adult day 1)

Nurse bee(Adult day 1 to 22)

Foraging AdultAdult day 23 to 42)

Minimum Cost Housing Group

Design and research Community Empowerment

Volunteers

Betterment of the Urban City

Santropol Roulant

Food SecuritySocial Cohesion

EDIBLECAMPUS

Harvest

FoodPreparation

Food Packaging

Food DistributionWaste

Compost

Seeding

Planting

Growing Crops

Edible CampusFood Cycle

Academics Staff Students Gardeners Animators Families/Children Professionals Disabled

McGill University Community Volunteers NGO actors Visitors

Individuals involved in Making the Edible CampusIndividuals interacting with the Edible Campus

Adult bees life cycle

Vegetation

Growing Medium

Drainage, Aeration, Water Storage and root BarrierInsulationMembrane Protection and Root BarrierRoo�ng Membrane

Structural Support