Community Garden
BVS community Garden has been an integral part of our community for many years. Our devoted volunteers and members has spent hundreds of hours working on this garden. It has helped the community a chance to engage in some farming and providing some quality vegetables and fruits cultivated without using any chemicals. Through this, the temple was able to generate substantial amount of income as donations for the produce bought by our community
Need of the Project
For several years there has been requests form the membership and well-wishers to enhance the appearance of the temple premises and better utilize the arming land. BVS board of directors with the recommendations of community professionals prepared a plan to beautify the garden and better utilize the property to provide an appealing look to the temple premises and convert BVS garden to a revenue generating stream.
About the Project
This is a long term initiative with 3 major phases. We are currently in the phase 1
You can find the information about the project HERE
We are in Phase one now and through this page, BVS would like to give its members all the information about the project, current status and some memories of our journey so far with some photo, videos, etc. You can also visit the Facebook page of "BVS Community Garden" for news and information as things happen. To visit the Facebook page, please click HERE
Our Donors - Our Strength
This project wouldn't have made possible without the generous donations from our members and well-wishers. You can see the list of donors by clicking HERE
What's Happening Now
Having setup all the vegetable bed boxes, we are currently in the process of planting the baby plants. We started this activity in the last weekend of April. You can reserve a plot now for planting.
Click here to find out the list of available plots
Below are some photos and videos taken when our members from Board of Directors of BVS and some volunteers from the community
The Journey so far...
We started the project with an informative virtual townhall session to present the proposed Garden Enhancement Project plan to our members and well-wishers. You can access the video of that townhall here
With all the positive feedback, encouragement, support, guidance and most importantly the necessary funds from our community, we managed to start out project on a positive note.
On 13th of March at the auspicious time of 7.54am, a small ground breaking ceremony was held while Venerable Sirinivasa and Venerable Somawansa blessed the initiation of this project.
Since the 13th March, the project team enthusiastically worked together, day and night to navigate through countless number of technical challenges, roadblocks and many issues arises when managing such projects. Despite all challenges, it has been a wonderful, fun experience filled with determination, laughter and happiness from the day one
Below are some memories of that journey