2024

Resource Guide for Establishing Community Gardens: Case Studies for BC Municipalities

Explore this Resource Guide for Establishing Community Gardens, created to assist municipalities in enhancing their community garden programs.

Divided into three common areas of focus, garden models, funding sources and governance and administration- it offers insights into diverse models and features three municipally led garden programs in BC, each unique in their location, model and approach.

2022

Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit

The purpose of the Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit is to explore how Universal Design principles can be applied to the physical, built environment in community gardens. It provides an easy-to-use guide for garden coordinators to develop more physically accessible gardens.

City of Victoria Community Garden Workshop Series

This two-part virtual workshop series was created to build community garden coordinators knowledge and skills for making accessible community gardens. Workshops were presented and facilitated by Janice Todd of Agape Inclusion Solutions.

Accessible Workshop 101: The first workshop of the series provided foundational level information to help bridge gaps in understanding to build disability confidence

A Community Garden for Everyone: The first workshop of the series introduces community garden coordinators to Universal Design Principles, considerations for accessible design and enhancement in existing community gardens.

2020

Urban FoodLands Case Studies

In 2020, the Public Health Association of BC conducted three case studies throughout urban municipalities to explore current urban foodlands practices and policies and align them with community visions and outcomes. A report was created with the intention of aligning efforts across municipalities to help inform the coordinated development of urban foodlands policies and practices across BC.

Three case study municipalities were chosen for this project; the cities of Kamloops, Victoria and Vancouver. These locations were chosen due to strong community engagement in food system policy. Each regional organization involved in this case study had received or was currently working on a Real Estate Foundation BC-funded project on urban food policy and had good working relationships with the city staff members who hold food system portfolios.

2014

Inclusive Community Gardens

This document combines current knowledge of inclusivity through the engagement of existing community garden guidelines; dialogues hosted by Can You Dig It (CYDI) PosAbilities, and community coordinators and gardeners in Vancouver.

The aim is to understand inclusivity in the Vancouver context; investigate current attributes of community gardens and their members; and provide assistance to leaders and gardeners in the creation of more welcoming and inclusive gardens.