The Trout Lake Medicine Wheel Garden planting party on September 21st, 2025, was the culmination of years in the making. We are so excited to welcome so many new plant friends!

Thank you to everyone who came out and volunteered to make it happen, and especially to the Whole Foods Market Foundation for sending over 20 volunteers and supplying a delicious lunch. Many thanks to Elder Seis’lom for his blessings, songs and stories. Also to Claudia Ho Lem for these beautiful photos.

Community Garden Roots and the Public Health Association of BC are proud to have partnered with Cedar Cottage Food Network and Lu’ma Medical to steward and co-create a vision for the expansion of this garden.

We want to thank the folks from the Land and Food Systems/ Decolonization Arts and Culture team at Vancouver Parks Board, Métis Landscape Designer Robyn Adams, Lu’Ma Medical Centre Society, the Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research and Wellness at xwc̓ic̓əsəm, and Trout Lake Community Centre and Association for all of your support and efforts to make this expansion possible.

We also gratefully acknowledge our funding support from the Whole Foods Market Foundation, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and the Neighbourhood Matching Fund program of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.