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Community Ceremony and Celebration
October 26, 2025 (1 pm – 4 pm): Join us for a ceremony and celebration for our newly expanded Medicine Wheel Garden! Part of the Vancouver Parks Board Sustenance Festival, a celebration of Food, Land and Culture.
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TLMWG Planting Day Recap
Event Recap: 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…
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Garden Expansion Planting Day
September 21, 2025 (11 am – 3 pm): Roll up your sleeves and help us plant the newly expanded medicine wheel garden! We’ll be moving soil, planting new plant friends, harvesting medicines and saving seeds! We’ll have snacks and a tent set up in case of heat or rain. Please bring tools and gloves if…
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Painting Cityscapes Green on Underutilized Urban Spaces
By activating underutilized urban spaces, community gardens elevate urban planning efforts and contribute to strengthening local food systems. Over half of the world’s population currently resides in urban areas, a trend projected to continue in the coming decades. Rapid urbanization creates greater distance between people and the sources of their food. The growing physical distance…
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Rooted in Community Connection: Celebrating Inclusion
Urban community gardens are vibrant spaces that celebrate inclusion and hands-on learning! Community Garden Roots envisions community gardening as an avenue for growing social connection. Community gardens facilitate neighborhood resilience through knowledge transfer and resource sharing bringing together neighbours from different generations and diverse backgrounds. People find themselves drawn to community gardens for a variety…