Special Projects

Cherryvale Organic Farm
The Cherryvale project is one of our most exciting and ambitious to date. Cherryvale is an organic farm in the Picton Ontario area managed and operated by a young dynamic team. They are blending permaculture and farming to grow and market unique fruits and vegetables.
Click here to go to the Cherryvale website

Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue
Championed by green activist Ryan Young, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is striving to become a truly green city. We currently have two projects on the go. The first being to reface their water tower using kiwi vines which will be anchored in with metal supports to cover 40 feet high of surface area. This is being put into place to minimize maintenance and prevent graffiti.
Click here to see the plan

The second project will have us lining their newly built bike path with fruit trees giving pedestrians and cyclists fruit, nuts and berries to eat as well as providing food for wildlife. This project should make Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue the city or town with the largest variety of fruit trees in Canada.
Click here to go to the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue website

Maison Productive (Eco Habitat)
Rune Kongshang's sustainable urban living project is Montreal’s first ecological design that seeks carbon-neutrality and addresses various productive aspects of a responsible lifestyle: alternative energy, food garden, active transportation, more personal productivity and leisure time. The Green Barn will be putting the finishing touches on the project by installing a mini orchard utilizing permaculture techniques to minimize the use of space and maximize production. We will also be installing an indoor citrus and rare fruit garden.
Click here to go to the Maison Productive website
Click here to see the plan

Eco Echo
A visionary project in the Outaouais region, the Eco Echo environmental campus is a beacon for diversified and sustainable progress.

Unfortunately Eco Echo is going through some difficult times as the city of Wakefield Quebec is attempting to expropriate part of their land. Click here to read the letter written to the Mayor by the Green Barn Nursery in support of the Eco Echo project. If you would like to lend your support feel free to contact Christopher Minnes.

Loyola Edible Landscape
Following in Ken’s footsteps his son and my brother Nicholas, became part of Concordia Food Systems Project a group of professors, students and former students trying to make their University more sustainable. They did a great job. It’s nice to see a group taking a different approach. Nick will be doing the landscape and orchard plans for the Green Barn.
Click here to download the presentation
Click here to see the biographies