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Zones nourricières écologiques (Ecological food zones)

Last updated November 1, 2024
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This project calls for the development of spaces that promote urban agriculture on public property. It was one of the winning projects in the first edition of the city’s participatory budget.

Description

Creation of compact spaces in which to grow trees and edible honey plants, based on a permaculture approach that favours indigenous plants. These green spaces may include pollinator-friendly flower beds, mushroom farms and orchards.

This project will be implemented in five boroughs, with a total budget of $2.9 million.

Benefits

  • Offer ecological and food-related alternatives to lawns.
  • Provide spaces for relaxation, picking gardens, and access to nature.

Progress update

Learn more about the details of the project in each borough:

Partially completed

Improvement of two existing food zones and development of a new zone in collaboration with community partners.

  • Location:
    • Parc Saint-Simon (South)
    • Parc de Salaberry (North)
    • Parc Marcelin-Wilson (North) - Construction in fall 2024
  • Budget: $624,000 
  • Delivery date: Fall 2023 and 2024

Partially completed

Development of a rest area for walkers and cyclists, including the installation of furniture and collective gardens and the planting of small trees along with food-producing bushes and shrubs.

  • Location: J.-D.-Ducharme park and linear strip along the Canal de l’Aqueduc, in the Hepworth sector
  • Budget: $221,000 
  • Delivery date: Fall 2023 (parc J. D. Ducharme) et spring 2024 (canal de l’Aqueduc, Hepworth sector)

Under planning

Development of two new food zones, improvement of the collective urban agriculture site at Parc Beaubien, and relocation of the community gardens on Avenue Thérèse Lavoie-Roux in Parc Beaubien.

  • Location:
    • Parc John-F.-Kennedy – Construction in fall 2024
    • Parc Beaubien – Construction in spring 2025
    • Borough hall (543, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine)
  • Budget: $500,000
  • Construction period : Fall 2024 to fall 2025 
  • Delivery date: Starting in 2025

Completed

Development of two food zones, including about 100 fruit trees as well as food-producing shrubs and plants.

  • Locations:
  • Budget: $800,000
  • Delivery date: Fall 2023

Under development

Revegetation of open zones in Parc Philippe-Laheurte and of the right-of-way and the median along Boulevard Cavendish to facilitate pollinator travel between the Parc Marcel-Laurin wooded area, the Cavendish-Raymond-Lasnier wooded area and the Parc Philippe-Laheurte. Phase 2 of Saint-Laurent Biodiversity Corridor. Learn more

  • Location: Parc Philippe-Laheurte (near Boulevard Cavendish)
  • Budget: $800,000
  • Construction period: Starting in summer 2023
  • Delivery date: Fall 2024
ArticleMontréal’s participatory budget: Report on the first edition (2020-2021)

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