Valley Park Middle School Go Green Cricket Field and Community Garden.Valley Park Middle School Community Garden

 HELP US BUILD VALLEY PARK’S GO GREEN CRICKET FIELD AND COMMUNITY GARDEN  

This much needed community garden/hub will:

• Offer a friendly environment for children and adults to learn about cricket within a sustainable environment
• Create opportunities for newcomers to connect over their common passion for cricket
• Transform an underutilized schoolyard and public land into a vibrant community space

 Go Green Sustainable Sports Field:

• Community cricket within walking distance of the neighbourhood
• Rainwater harvested and diverted from the roof tops and parking lot through a bioswale into a marsh and an irrigation holding tank
• A track under a tree canopy to create an improved micro-climate
• An amphitheatre for outdoor cultural performances

 Learning opportunities:

• Hands on experience planting a vegetable and herb garden
• Creating an urban forest with students planting trees
• Reconnecting the schoolyard to the Don valley ecosystem

Valley Park is located in a very densely populated part of Toronto. The school serves over 1200 students from the Thorncliffe and Flimingdon neighbourhoods. The project will provide a hub for the community. Children, parents and community members will be able to enjoy the community/vegetable garden, cricket field, butterfly garden and amphitheatre for outdoor cultural performances.