View Street Urban Farm

View Street Urban Farm is located in the heart of Uptown Port Alberni. We are truly urban, located on View Street and 8th Avenue, just 4 blocks from City Hall and 9 blocks from Harbour Quay.

Our urban farm and garden is approximately 1/3 of an acre. We have stone raised garden beds planted with a variety of vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs. A small orchard grows cherry, pear, quince and plum and three large heritage apple trees. Numerous berry bushes including blackberries, raspberries, tayberries and strawberries add to our fruit production. A small coop on the property is home to three Rhode Island Red chickens and two Welsh Harlequin ducks providing us with eggs, manure and composting of our kitchen and garden scraps. We have honeybees that work hard pollinating our flowers and providing us with delicious wildflower honey.

The vine covered arbours, potting shed, bird houses, ornamental trees, ivy, ferns, flower gardens, stone walls and large pond stocked with goldfish and flowering lilies, adds charm and interest to the property, making it decorative as well as productive.

The residence was built in 1924 and still has lots of old charm with 9 foot ceilings, hand crafted mission style mahogany and oak, custom stained glass, cedar lined closets and crystal doorknobs with skeleton key locks. We also enjoy a floor to ceiling malachite stone fireplace. The malachite rock was brought in from a quartz and malachite quarry that was active in the 1920s and 30s located on the shores of Great Central Lake.