by Diane Lefroy At the beginning of every event in the coFood Collaborative Garden, we acknowledge that we gather, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: namely the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. In terms of time, we are interlopers here. Our tenure is less than 200 years. Indigenous peoples have populated …

by Diane Lefroy In my first post in this series, titled Our Collaborative Garden: an “island of sanity” , I described how a small privately-owned urban site has been transformed into a beautiful gathering place for neighbours to learn, play and grow together in love and harmony with Nature. We are in the process of winding up our third season – planning, …

by Diane Lefroy In 2010, I purchased a small vacant lot across the street from where I have lived and worked for almost 20 years- in the Brewery Creek neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, When I say small, I mean just over 2000 square feet- less than half an acre. With money from an inheritance to invest, I had been …