Grow what you eat on Friday, March 2nd from 7 – 11pm at Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carall Street, Gastown.
Victory Gardens, an urban farming business from Vancouver BC, is pleased to announce the launch of their first growing season with a silent auction and fundraiser, featuring generous donations from a host of the community’s finest, including: Nelson the Seagull, Collage Collage, Raincity Chronicles, Pickershack, Gravity Pope, Lark, Regional Assembly of Text, Beth Richards, Heartbreaker Salon, Rocklore, Dace, Back-yard Buzz, Humble Roots Wellness, Community Vintage, Instinct Training, Ystava and more!
Lisa Giroday, Sam Philips and Sandra Lopuch have come together to form the urban farming business, Victory Gardens. With varying backgrounds and interests in food production, sustainable development and environmental activism, Victory Gardens embodies many of the principles in which they were born, but with a fresh perspective. The team at Victory Gardens looks forward to working with the community; transforming front yards for food production, facilitating dynamic workshops, such as: “Grow Your Own Pizza”, providing education and planning tools for the new urban farmer to grow what they eat and much more.
The term Victory Gardens speaks to WWI and WWII era campaigns instigated by American, Canadian, German and British governments intending to reduce the pressure on public food supply. However; more than that, Victory Gardens served as symbols of comradery and support, unifying the masses to promote sustainability, efficient land use, innovative economic models and to unite families in a passive war effort for victory. British Columbia and Vancouver were no exception to this push for city farming, and in early 1943, The Vancouver News Herald reported, “If all the Victory Gardens in British Columbia were lumped together, they would occupy a space approximately three times the size of Vancouver’s great Stanley Park.” At that time, the paper said, there were 1425 gardens on city-owned lots.” (http://www.cityfarmer.org/
Not much has changed in the way a Victory Garden can benefit the community today, so we’re delighted to provide the tools to make that connection!
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Masthead photo courtesy of Rob Holland