“Some things grow a lot better up here than other things,” said Our Place kitchen manager Brian Cox. “I’m just very excited about it. We’ve talked about it for years and it never happened.” Combined with food grown at its New Roads centre in View Royal and fruits and vegetables from donors, Our Place has enough in its gardens to reduce its produce budget by a third, Cox said. New Roads gives people a chance to improve their lives through gardening and other activities, said Grant McKenzie, Our Place director of communications. New Roads resident Lee Morton, who has been there about four months, said gardening and learning about plants as well as looking after chickens has been therapeutic for him. “It’s my recovery,” he said. “When I’m out there gardening, it’s hugely meditative for me.”