The garden is located at the Macdonald Farm Centre in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, next to the Macdonald Student-Run Ecological Gardens, behind the Swine Complex. The site is approximately a quarter of an acre, bordered by a row of spruce trees on one side and a road on the other. It is West-facing, with MSEG to the North, and the rest of the farm to the South. 

 

While mainly flat, there is a slight slope downwards towards the road side, with a ditch running along the bottom edge to a drain. The lower section of the site, including the ditch is currently left wild so as not to block or disturb the ditch. When the site was given to us, it was an unused field of grass, with just a few young trees that had been planted a few years previously. Most of the trees unfortunately had to be removed because they would eventually have grown too large and were not well placed for the garden design. The leaning of the trees indicated the strong winds that, especially in the early summer, blow up into the garden from the side along the road.

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The soil is a good quality clay-loam. A soil biology analysis indicated that it was bacterially dominated, with relatively low fungal populations, mainly for the support of herbaceous plants and grasses.