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Get Growing, Victoria Seedling Distribution is back!

 

Check out full list of distribution locations + tips on how to care for your seedlings. 

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Check out the new Accessible Garden Video!

Gardening is for everyone! Rooting an accessibility and justice lens when developing a garden for yourself, or for your neighborhood creates spaces that are accessible, safe and inclusive for everyone in the community. 

 

The new Growing Together Accessibility Video highlights the stories and voices of members in our community! In the video we learn accessibility garden adaptations, discuss the importance of embedding accessibility into food systems and food growing, and showcase tips and resources to making your garden space more accessible. This video is in partnership with City of Victoria and Can You Dig It, a program run by PHABC, and their new ‘Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit’ with resources to develop accessible garden spaces.

 

Watch the Growing Together Accessible Garden Video through youtube (available with closed captioning and Spanish/Arabic subtitles) and check out the ‘Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit’.

 

This video project has been funded by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors project. 

 

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Let's

Grow

Together!

Growing Together is a collaboration of people and organizations from across Coast Salish territories coming together to help people to grow their own food.

 

Check out what we have accomplished together!

 
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Collaborators

Who is behind this?  We are a group of people and organizations from across the Victoria capital region - Coast Salish territories, coming together to support our communities in growing their own food!

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Tomatoes growing in the Bonnie Henry Alotment Gardens in Victoria, B.C
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The Jawl Foundation

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We are growing on unceded Coast Salish territories.

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This initiative works within the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən, SENĆOŦEN, and Hul'q'umi'num speaking peoples. Within this are the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees), Xwsepsum (Esquimalt), W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱SIKEM (Tseycum), Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay), T’Sou-ke, Pacheedaht, MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat), Pune’laxutth’ (Penelekut), Stz'uminus (Chemainus), Ts’uubaa-asatx (Lake Cowichan), Halalt, Lyackson, sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), and Quw'utsun (Cowichan) Nations.

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The presence of settlers (non-Indigenous peoples who live on these lands) is not neutral; it continues to have devastating impacts on many aspects of life for Indigenous peoples. Many settler practices, including the seeds planted, the forms of education, and methods of growing food come to these lands through the ongoing process of colonialism. Colonialism has suppressed local well-being by harming Indigenous food systems, whether they be land-based or of the sky and sea. We honour the stewards of these lands, including the people, plants and animals, who have an intimate knowledge of the foods of this land. We hold them up for the work they continuously do to protect and connect with the land.