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Riley Park Community Garden

50 East 30th Avenue
Vancouver, BC, V5V 2T9
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A food security project of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House

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Regina Woman Micro-Gardens to Donate Greens to North Central Neighbourhood →

June 9, 2016 Dhira Khewsubtrakool
Image courtesy of Gardening Know How

Image courtesy of Gardening Know How

Lydia Martens wants her community in North Central to know they can grow their own food. That's why the Regina woman is growing an abundance of vegetables and herbs. "This time of the year my hands are never clean," Martens said, as she stood in her front yard on the 800 block of Garnet Street. She's taken a twist on the traditional gardening by using a method called micro-gardening. 

Rows upon rows of produce are growing at the side of her house and in her backyard. She sowed individual plants in milk jugs which she then stacked on shelves. 

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50 E 30th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5V 2T9

Riley Park Community Garden is a food security project of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (102-1193 Kingsway)

 

We acknowledge that the land on which we garden and gather is the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories belonging to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizon for Seniors Program
 
 

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