gardening
Local gardens for local harvest
Peak Web July 29, 2025By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor Walking around Metro Vancouver, it’s likely you’ve found community gardens full of vegetables and plants. These spaces aren’t just pretty; they are a great way for people to strengthen their relationship with the land they inhabit, build community, and eat local food — how much more local can it get than harvesting with your own hands? Developing these plots of unused land into sources of locally produced food is one of Vancouver’s food security efforts. As part of the Vancouver Food Strategy and the Local Food Action Plan, the city harbors over 110 community…
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Embark’s community garden has a new home behind Maggie Benston Center
Peak Web May 20, 2025By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer and Hannah Fraser, News Editor Embark Sustainability’s community Burnaby Learning Garden is moving from outside the Technology and Science Complex (TASC) 1 to the field behind the Maggie Benston Center (MBC). They will transition over…
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