Welcome to our community garden! (for more on the information below visit https://www.cedarcottagegarden.org/history)
The garden was started in May, 2008.
The food forest was constructed in early 2010, as a permaculture area - shifting traditional garden practices to integrate principles and cycles observed in natural ecosystems. The goal was to create productive, self-sustaining systems that use water efficiently, build healthy soil and provide food for people, pollinators, and wildlife.
The garden shed was built within 20 feet of the original Lakeview station on the BC Electric Railway that once ran between Vancouver and New Westminster. The style of the structure reflects the design of a typical station stop on the Central Park line. It is a three-quarter scale replica of the building that stood there from ~1900 to 1935. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on October 25th, 2009. The plaque mounted to the garden's shed commemorates the Lakeview disaster.
Below: B.C. Electric Railway Company car "Sumas" at the Lakeview Station on the Central Park line, taken around 1903. The image is in the public domain and was made available by the City of Vancouver Archives.
Below: B.C. Electric Railway Company car 1310 at Lakeview Station on the Central Park line, crossing Hull Street.
You can learn more about the Central Park line of the BC Electric Railway in a 2009 article from Translink's Buzzer blog.
The big steel "A" frame is the entrance to Vancouver's old Austrian Plaza from the 1980's, it was painted in the colours of the Austrian flag and was eventually adopted by the garden. Beautiful healthy hops now grow over the giant "A" in the summer.
We hope you enjoyed the garden today!