The sale of a rare community garden in the heart of the Montreal's red light district has angered Montrealers who rely on the land.
In early April the City of Montreal's executive committee approved the sale of a 14-plot community garden on Berger Street, just east of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and north of René-Lévesque Boulevard to a numbered company for the construction of luxury condominiums.
The move has angered people who have plots on the site and were about to start planting this season.
Kathleen McMeekin from the St. Jacques Eco Quartier, said the land is vital to people in the area.
She said the sale of it sends a wrong message to Montrealers looking to participate in community and green initiatives.
While McMeekin said people from Berger Street have been told they can plant at the nearby community garden at Habitations Jeanne-Mance, space there is limited and there is already a long waiting list to get in there, she said
"We're destroying again more green space in the centre of Montreal and we're also taking away garden space from people I think really need to have a place to garden and get fresh food in the city," McMeekin told CBC News.
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