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‘The Plot Thickens’ Community Gardening Workshop, Metro Vancouver or Surrey, BC

April 28th or May 5th 2012

by Queenie, Community Garden Network Coordinator

Interested in starting a community garden this year? Learn about how your garden will address food insecurity in our city. Registration Form here.

Our ‘The Plot Thickens’ Community Gardening Workshop will give you a good start! It will be given by A Rocha Canada’s experienced gardening friends, partners and trained community organizers. Vancouver ‘Plot Thickens’ Poster, May 5th 2012

Our workshop covers: gathering your garden team, generating excitement about a community project, managing plots, gardening how-tos, facing challenges and more. Participants will receive a community gardening manual, monthly gardening emails, an online space to connect and a webpage for profiling your new community garden. Our goal is to partner with you and your Christian community as you develop a garden to support local food production and facilitate community outreach.

Organizational Partner:

City Gate Leadership Forum as the main Coordinator of the Christian Food Security Network in Metro Vancouver wants to help you connect your garden to local organizations who could benefit from sharing your produce harvests.

City Gate Leadership Forum exists to inform, equip, and coordinate organizations and leaders for the spiritual and social renewal of Metro Vancouver, envisioning a future where the church is a valued leader in fostering vibrant, sustainable cities.

Contact:  T 604 484 8629, office@cglf.ca

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Saanich Church Garden, BC

Jun 20 2010

by Luke

We believe the universe and everything in it belongs to God the Creator. God has entrusted the care of the earth to all people, who are responsible for managing its resources. Good stewardship uses the earth’s abundance to meet human need, but resists the unjust exploitation of the earth and its peoples. All God’s gifts are to be received with thanksgiving and used responsibly.” -MB Confession of Faith, Article 15

At Sannich Community Church, we take Creation Care as part of our confession of faith seriously.  Through involvement with A Rocha, we arrange bird-watch hikes, plan nature walks, and work with the municipality in removing invasive weeds from parklands.

We also have a native plant garden at the front of our church property, and a vegetable/fruit garden at the back of our property that produces food from May – October which is donated to the local foodbank, for needy families in Victoria.


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