Winnipeg Free Press By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 19, 2021
Move over Year of the Ox. The gardeners are taking over.
If the number of people tending plots at community gardens and greenspaces across the city in the past week is any indication, the pandemic-friendly pastime will be as popular in 2021 as it was last year, when Greenhouse Canada magazine declared 2020 the Year of the Garden in its September 2020 issue.
Barbara Ediger has had her hands in the soil long before gardening became a trendy pandemic activity. She has had a plot for more than 25 years at the Riverview Garden Society’s space between the Riverview Health Centre and the Red River shore.