There will be two more community gardens in High River as of Monday's council meeting.

Construction for the gardens was approved on two pieces of land, one in McLaughlin Meadows and the other on Riverside Drive near Notre Dame Collegiate.

Chair of the Community Gardens Ad Hoc Committee, Leslie Scrimshaw, says she hopes the gardens will encourage people to think about food and sustainability.

"It's going to be great, I think. And I'm hoping that it's a way that we can start looking at a bunch of things around food, that sustainability and getting our food on the table."

She says both gardens will include food forests to benefit the community.

"Each of the gardens will have something that we might call a food forest. That will be a perennial area where we would grow things like fruit trees, berry bushes, perennial herbs like sage, tarragon, thyme, those kinds of things.

Scrimshaw says they already have the money to buy these plants, and the harvests will benefit the public.

"The harvest from those areas is going to be a harvest for the community not just for the people who are in the garden so, everyone will be able to benefit from them. That'll take a while, because a fruit tree doesn't have a huge harvest for the first few of years, but over time the harvest will continue to get better and better."

There will be an open house on March 1st, where everyone can come and look at the designs for the gardens. Registration packages will be available at that time as well, so people can sign up.