Care Baskets – The PLOT

PLOT Care Baskets

Helping Our Neighbours with Immediate Food Needs

WHILE CARE BASKETS ARE NO LONGER IN OPERATION, we remain grateful to the caring members of the PLOT Sharing Garden and the greater community that visioned, brought this program into being, and allowed it to operate during the Covid 19 lockdown.

This is a challenging time for our community. We are growing lots of beautiful organic vegetables but we cannot grow enough to meet the current needs of the community, and our garden may not be accessible to those impacted the most by this pandemic.

PLOT Care Baskets is an initiative aiming to provide weekly boxes filled with delicious, fresh produce (hearty veggies and fruits) for our neighbours who are in need. And, our friends at All Of Oils have generously offered to provide us with some 60 ml bottles of their incredible Extra Virgin Olive Oil to make these produce baskets even more fabulously delicious.

If you are in need of a produce box please email us with your name and phone number, whether the basket is for an individual or a household, and whether you are able to pick-up from the PLOT (12:30pm- 3:30pm on Saturdays). Please include your address if you will need it delivered.

Please know that due to limited capacity and resources, we are only able to provide these services to the most vulnerable in Surrey’s Newton and City Centre area. There are many local organizations that are providing amazing service during this time. You can learn more about some of them here.

If you would like to support this initiative, we are gratefully accepting food and cash donations. Please email us. We are volunteers, and 100% of your donation goes to the care baskets. Thank you for helping us support our community during these challenging times.

Thank you and best wishes from the friends of the PLOT. We will all get through this together.

These are some of our first deliveries.

Here are some of our second week of Care Baskets. Thank you to Studio 73 for the beautiful “We’re in this together” fused glass magnets included in the baskets! Please remember that we will be at the PLOT every Saturday from 12:30-3:30 with baskets ready for pick-up.

Week 3 of the Care Baskets — we served 25 households today!

‘Thank you so very much for the wonderful fruit and veggies I have been enjoying the last couple of weeks. I am so very grateful as I can feel my health returning and honestly it is because of the goodness you provide, and your kindness, gratitude from my heart.’ ❤️

‘The greens have been especially beneficial. I can actually feel these amazing gifts from nature and you….making me feel SO much better, and that in turn effects my family and everyone in the community.’

Week 4 of the Care Baskets — Mothers Day weekend — we served 23 households on Saturday! One delivery was to a beautiful First Nations mother of 5 beautiful children. We hope you all enjoyed the veggies, we harvested some that morning from the PLOT garden. On Sunday we made 2 emergency deliveries. One was to a beautiful senior mother who was very hungry, she had only had one small meal on Saturday and had no food in the house. These are very challenging times. We wish you all a Happy Mothers Day!

‘I am in heaven!!! All the food is so crisp and fresh and delicious! I think about you and thank you Every Time I Eat!!! Thank you so much for your generosity of time and effort to shop and deliver to me… I am so deeply grateful for your care and friendship!’