Our community garden continues to grow and expand this year. The municipality was fortunate to receive funding through both the LiveWell Community Catalyst Grant from HealthPEI, as well as the Island Community Food Security Program from the Department of Agriculture and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Our new greenhouse features a farm stand-inspired alcove where fresh produce can be picked up for free. There is also a mud kitchen for children on-site. Soon, the greenhouse will also be home to a “Seed Library” (for sharing seeds!), some cedar bird houses, and some fall plantings to extend our growing season. Market carts were stained and repurposed as seed starting shelving. 

Please feel free to pop by the garden to have a look around, and sign our guestbook. 

Please see the above file for our post regarding snow removal operations in the municipality for Winter 2026/2027. We are accepting letters of interest for the contract position of plow operator, and other proposals for review by Council.

Council had its usual summer break in August 2026.

The Rural Municipality of Mount Stewart has a new logo, thanks to designers Brandon Hood and Aidan Searle, of Hood+Searle (PEI/NS).

We’re excited for you to start seeing these designs incorporated in new signage at our municipal properties in the coming months.

Thanks,
Katharine MacDonald, CAO

Please find attached on this post our three proposed budgets for the Rural Municipality of Mount Stewart for Fiscal Year 2026/27. If anyone in the Municipality should have any questions, concerns, or other feedback you would like to share with Council, please send them to mountstewart@eastlink.ca or drop by the municipal office. The Budget Approval Meeting is scheduled for March 18th, 2026, at 6:30pm at the Community Complex.

The Municipality has been carrying out its Active Transportation grant-funded project at the Eco-Centre, the Station Street-Main Street Corner Lot, and around the Confederation Trail areas.

Shiny Paint created this custom, hand-painted 4ft x 8ft map of Mount Stewart, highlighting its gorgeous and historic trails.

Shiny Paint also painted this custom-designed crosswalk along Smith Street to honour our heritage in the strawberry farming industry, as well as our place on the Hillsborough River.

Dozens of flowering, fruit-bearing, and ornamental trees and shrubs were planted in the area, including two Ginkgo Biloba trees (pictured in foreground). Over time these trees will offer much-needed shade and shelter to cyclists, pedestrians, residents, and even pets. Trees include multiple varieties of magnolias, cherries, apples, pears, and crabapples, as well as a mulberry tree featured facing Main Street, a horse chestnut, a Japanese maple, and a serviceberry.

More changes and additions are coming over the summer, we look forward to seeing residents and visitors enjoying the effects of this much-appreciated grant.