Green Thumbs

Public Housing's Green Thumbs is a unique contest that gives you a chance to eliminate heat islands and make our city bloom, while sharing the joys of gardening!

This competition is also a "program" featuring the many ways tenants strive to pursue sustainable development.

This event was know as the "Flowering Balconies Competition" until residents started to plant plots around their buildings to create the green spaces and community gardens that have even since beautified their neighbourhoods.

This gardening contest also:

 

  • Improves the quality of life and health not only of participants, but of all community members.
  • Provides a welcome source of fresh vegetables.
  • Serves as a melting pot for different generations and cultures.
  • Forges links with the community.
  • Helps eliminate heat islands by planting over concrete and asphalt surfaces.

 

Please view this video produced at Montréal's 3rd Environmental and Sustainable Development Gala for a better idea of what's happening.

2010 Winners' Photos

Forty-two participants,  participant groups and Elite members were honoured at the prize award ceremony held in the Botanical Garden's auditorium on September 30.

This event was held in the presence of Mr. Alain Tassé, Verdun Borough Councillor and City Councillor Responsible for Housing and Resident Relations and was brilliantly hosted by Mr. Albert Mondor, a gardening columnist and contest spokesperson.

Here are the names and photos of 2010 individual and group winners.

 Habitations Cousineau

Association des locataires habitations Cousineau – Élite 2010
(Ahuntsic-Cartierville)
Fabien Cournoyer, OMHM Executive Director, Alain Tassé, Verdun Borough Councillor and City Councillor Responsible for Housing and Resident Relations, Ghislaine Boucher, Elite member, Albert Mondor, contest spokeperson and MC, Diane Grisé, Elite member, Michel Perreault, Deputy Executive Director, Operations at the OMHM and Nicolas Joly, Director, Sustainable Development at the OMHM.

 Aven A. Comeau Aven A. Comeau, Indivual Elite member 2009
 Nury Pulgarin Nury Pulgarin, Individual Elite Member, 2009
 Membres Élite Émilien-Gagnon Habitations Émilien-Gagnon Tenants' Association, Elite community members, 2009
 Terrasse Ontario Habitations Terrasse Ontario Tenants' Association, Elite Community Association, 2009
 Lucie Goudreau  Lucie Goudreau, Individual Elite member, 2010
 Sophie Constantineau  Sophie Constantineau, Individual Elite member, 2010
 Les Jardins Chaumont Habitations Les Jardins Chaumont Tenants' Association, 1st prize, Sustainable Community Beautification
(Anjou)
 Les Jardins Chateauneuf Habitations Les Jardins Chateauneuf Tenants' Association,
Second prize, Sustainable Community Beautification
(Anjou)
H Habitations De Salaberry Tenants' Association
Favourite, Sustainable Community Beautification
(Ahuntsic–Cartierville)
 Guy-Anne Huot Guy-Anne Huot, 1st Prize,  Sustainable Private Property Beautification
(Arrondissement Ahuntsic – Cartierville)
 Hélène Payette Hélène Payette, 2nd  Prize,  Sustainable Private Property Beautification
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Yeo Choon Sung Yeo Choon Sung, Favourite, Sustainable Private Property Beautification
(Arrondissement Côte-des-Neiges – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Krystyna Jedra Krystyna Jedra, 1st Prize, Sustainable Private Balcony Beautification
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Denise Sauvé Denise Sauvé, 2nd Prize , Sustainable Private Balcony Beautification 
(Lachine)
 Habitations De Mentana Habitations De Mentana Young Tenants' Association, 1st Prize, Community Vegetable Garden
(Le Plateau Mont-Royal)
 Habitations Côte-des-Neiges

Habitations Côte-des-Neiges Tenants' Association, 2nd Prize, Community Vegetable Garden
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)

 Place Lucy Habitations Place Lucy Tenants' Association, Favourite, Community Garden
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Bassam Akra Bassam Akra, 1st Prize, Private Vegetable Garden
(Saint-Laurent)
 Antoine Daher Kouri Antoine Daher-Kouri, 2nd Prize, Private Vegetable Garden
(Petite-Bourgogne–Saint-Henri)
 Claudette Sarrazin

Claudette Sarrazin, Favourite, Private Vegetable Garden
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)

 

 Gabriel Sagard 1 Habitations Gabriel-Sagard I Tenants' Association, 1st Prize, Northwest Sector Community
(Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension)
 Habitations Émilien-Gagnon Habitations Émilien-Gagnon Tenants' Association, 2nd Prize, Northwest Sector Community
(Saint-Léonard)
 Hab. Marie-Ange-Jasmin Habitations Marie-Ange-Jasmin Tenants' Association, Favourite, Northwest Sector Community
(Sainte-Geneviève)
 Jean-Paul Beaudry Habitations Jean-Paul-Beaudry Tenants' Association, 1st Prize, Eastern Sector Community
(Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles)
 Les Jardins Angevins Lucille Mc Gurk and her fellow team members, Habitations Les Jardins Angevins, 2nd Prize, Eastern Sector Community
(Anjou)
 Bellerive Habitations Bellerive Tenants' Association, Favourite, Eastern Sector Community
(Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles)
 RitaDelGrande Habitations Mayfair Tenants' Association, 1st Prize, Southwestern Sector Community
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Habitations Le Domaine des Rapides Habitations Le Domaine des Rapides Tenants' Association, 2nd Prize, Southwestern Sector Community
(LaSalle)
 Habitations De L'Érablière Habitations De L'Érablière Tenants' Association, Favourite, Southwestern Sector Community
(Petite-Bourgogne–Saint-Henri)
 PierretteBoucher Pierrette Boucher, 1st Prize, Private Plot, Northwestern Sector
(Saint-Léonard)
 Raman Ollee Raman Ollee, 2nd Prize, Private Plot, Northwestern Sector
(Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie)
 Estelle Janelle Estelle Janelle, Favourite, Private Plot, Northwestern Sector
(Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie)
 Adrienne Lambert Adrienne Lambert, 1st Prize, Private Plot, Eastern Sector
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Yvette Chaput Yvette Chaput, 2nd Prize, Private Plot, Eastern Sector
(Le Plateau Mont-Royal)
 Vivianne Lemay Viviane Lemay, Favourite, Private Plot, Eastern Sector
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Lioudmila Dobrovlianskaia Lioudmila Dobrovlianskaia, 1st Prize, Private Plot, Southwestern Sector
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Guillemo Lozno Guillemo Lozno, 2nd Prize, Private Plot, Southwestern Sector
(LaSalle)
 Maria Churkina Maria Churkina, Favourite, Plot, Southwestern Sector
(Verdun)
 Nicole Lessard Nicole Lessard, 1st Prize, Balcony, Northwestern Sector,
(Saint-Léonard)
 MadeleineFaille Madeleine Faille, 2nd Prize, Balcony, Northwestern Sector
(Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie)
 Isamelle Antoine

Ismaëlle Antoine, Favourite, Balcony, Northwestern Sector

(Saint-Léonard)

 Madeleine Delisle Madeleine Delisle, Honourable Mention, Balcony, Northwestern Community
(Saint-Léonard)
 Madeleine Caron Madeleine Caron, 1st Prize, Balcony, Eastern Sector
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Rachel Kean Rachel Kean, 2nd Prize, Balcony, Eastern Sector
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Lise Perrone Lise Perrone, Favourite, Balcony, Eastern Sector
(Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
 Rosa Moon Kyung Ae Rosa Moon Kyung Ae, 1st Prize, Balcony, Southwestern Sector
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Illuminada Averion Illuminada Averion, 2nd Prize, Balcony, Southwestern Sector
(Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
 Micheline Pelletier Micheline Pelletier, Favourite, Balcony, Southwestern Sector 
(Sud-Ouest)

The OMHM would like to congratulate all winners of and participants in the 2010 Social Housing Green Thumbs Competition.

2010 Launch

The launch of the 2010 Green Thumbs Competition was held at Montréal's City Hall on June 3, 2010.

Special guests included Albert Mondor, gardening columnist and competition spokesperson, Paule Lamontagne, Chair of Amis du Jardin botanique, Robert Labelle, President of the OMHM, the OMHM Management Team and Alain Tassé, Verdun Borough Councillor and City Councillor Responsible for Housing and Relations with Residents. Mr. Tassé asked new 2010 Elite members to sign the city's guestbook, as did 2009 Elite members, the year before.

Lancement Pouces verts 2010

2010 Horticultural Program

Montréal's social housing tenants have been able to learn more about gardening over the past through years through programs on horticulture.

These sessions are given by two experts, Marie-Ève Chaume and Anne-Marie Legault, who also write on gardening for Montréal' Social Housing tenants' publication, La Rose des vents. Participants learned more about cultivating and maintaining vegetable gardens, plants and flowers. Ms. Chaume and Ms. Legault also offered a variety of highly appreciated tips and talked with gardeners.

Formation Horticole

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