SEEDLINGS FOR SAANICH SENIORS

Together we connected seniors from across Saanich with seedlings to grow their own food gardens. 6126 seedlings were given out for free! 

This program is now wrapped up.

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Big thanks to our volunteers, to Nathalie and David Chambers, our anonymous donor, and Sol Kinnis of City's Edge farm for growing all the plant starts.

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Just received your seedlings and want to get started?
Check out this video!

The Jawl Foundation

We are growing on unceded Coast Salish* territories.

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The presence of settlers (non-Indigenous peoples who live on these lands) is not neutral; it has had and continues to have devastating impacts on many aspects of life for Indigenous peoples. Many (settler) practices, including the seeds we plant, the ways we educate, and our methods of growing food came to these lands through the ongoing process of colonialism. Settler colonialism has suppressed local well-being by harming Indigenous food systems, whether they be land-based or of the sky and sea. Let us hold this understanding in our interactions and engagements with this land and its people.

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* The term Coast Salish is used to encompass a number of Indigenous peoples, including Esquimalt, Hul’qumi’num, Klahoose, Lekwungen, MALAXEt, Musqueam, OStlq’emeylem, Pentlatch, Scia’new (Beecher Bay), Sliammon, Shishalh, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, Straits, Tsleil-Waututh, T’Sou-ke, W̱SÁNEĆ, and Xwemalhkwu. 

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