That garden, a stakeholder and community partner of ICSP, supplies the food bank, as well as homeless and women’s shelters with organic vegetables, fruit, berries and herbs.
Phil Ferraro, manager of the Farm Centre and Legacy Garden, said they started out with 85 allotments and are now up over 150. Last year, it produced more than 17,000 pounds of food that went to various charities.
As a stakeholder in the ISCP, Ferraro was thrilled to hear Charlottetown has launched a new ICSP on Wednesday.
The ICSP is a long-term, forward-thinking strategic plan that was developed in consultation with the public to provide direction for the community to realize sustainability objectives for its environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions.
Last year, the city delivered a survey and held a visioning session with stakeholders about what is happening in the city and what they’d like to see happen.
Ten themes came up: water; energy; transportation; food; healthy economy; infrastructure and the built environment; people and places; arts, culture and heritage; active healthy living and nature.
Ramona Doyle, the city’s sustainability officer, said people earmarked specific priorities during the visioning sessions.
“We heard a lot about focus on energy, focus on water and we continue to hear focus on water is an important thing for Islanders and for Charlottetown residents,’’ Doyle said. “We also heard lots on transportation and public spaces (and things like) how we can use public spaces to engage people to be a part of their community.’’
Other goals include fixing gaps in cycling routes and improve signage, developing a food security strategy, develop and dog park or other improvements for dog owners and partnering with educational institutions and community organizations to support emerging artists.
Ferraro went a step further.
“It’s very exciting to see the city having implemented a social responsible business program with water conservation measures they’ve taken, looking at urban forests and protecting those (and) keeping the green spaces.’’
Doyle also emphasized that ICSP isn’t just a city plan.
“We’ve created a community plan. It's for the community to collaborate with us, among organizations to really make ourselves sustainable going forward. Some of the action goals will be more city-led, some of them are going to be more community led and a lot will be done in community partnerships.’’
For more information, go to the city’s website at www.city.charlottetown.pe.ca
That garden, a stakeholder and community partner of ICSP, supplies the food bank, as well as homeless and women’s shelters with organic vegetables, fruit, berries and herbs.
Phil Ferraro, manager of the Farm Centre and Legacy Garden, said they started out with 85 allotments and are now up over 150. Last year, it produced more than 17,000 pounds of food that went to various charities.
As a stakeholder in the ISCP, Ferraro was thrilled to hear Charlottetown has launched a new ICSP on Wednesday.
The ICSP is a long-term, forward-thinking strategic plan that was developed in consultation with the public to provide direction for the community to realize sustainability objectives for its environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions.
Last year, the city delivered a survey and held a visioning session with stakeholders about what is happening in the city and what they’d like to see happen.
Ten themes came up: water; energy; transportation; food; healthy economy; infrastructure and the built environment; people and places; arts, culture and heritage; active healthy living and nature.
Ramona Doyle, the city’s sustainability officer, said people earmarked specific priorities during the visioning sessions.
“We heard a lot about focus on energy, focus on water and we continue to hear focus on water is an important thing for Islanders and for Charlottetown residents,’’ Doyle said. “We also heard lots on transportation and public spaces (and things like) how we can use public spaces to engage people to be a part of their community.’’
Other goals include fixing gaps in cycling routes and improve signage, developing a food security strategy, develop and dog park or other improvements for dog owners and partnering with educational institutions and community organizations to support emerging artists.
Ferraro went a step further.
“It’s very exciting to see the city having implemented a social responsible business program with water conservation measures they’ve taken, looking at urban forests and protecting those (and) keeping the green spaces.’’
Doyle also emphasized that ICSP isn’t just a city plan.
“We’ve created a community plan. It's for the community to collaborate with us, among organizations to really make ourselves sustainable going forward. Some of the action goals will be more city-led, some of them are going to be more community led and a lot will be done in community partnerships.’’
For more information, go to the city’s website at www.city.charlottetown.pe.ca
