Baraga was started in 1982 to provide residents of Burnaby with space to grow vegetables and fruit. We have 372 plots on 14 acres, leased from the City of Burnaby. We have a long waitlist and it takes several years for a plot to come available.

For the last 10 years we have partnered with Ryan's Rainbow Emergency Food Outreach. We donate vegetables, fruit and herbs every week from June to October. Gardeners donate from their individual plots. And we plant specifically for the food bank in our orchard space. When we began our collaboration, Ryan's was helping 45 families. Since then, the need has grown and today they serve over 300 families. Our fresh produce helps to provide healthy food. We recieve a generous donation of seeds from West Coast Seeds and other companies.

As a school, we are always looking for ways to teach in authentic and meaningful ways. Last year, we signed up for the Harvest Bins through BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation. The goal of the program is to grow food so students see where their food is coming from. It connects with the Science curriculum, Math (as we graph the growth of our plants), Social Studies (natural resources), ADST Food Studies,and First Peoples Principles of interconnectedness.

We are a community volunteer-based seed library. We share seeds, plants, knowledge, and enthusiasm for gardening from the Ocean Park Library once a month for seven months of the year. People come to the library to exchange seeds of heritage...

A small town club that is having fun helping residents find the joy in gardening, enjoying a harvest and saving seeds for the future.

Our last Seedy Saturday was standing room only. All of our workshops are filled, and we have a lot of ideas for future workshops.

Langara College is a large public academic post-secondary school. We have existed outside of Vancouver Community College as independent since 1994. The College is a key employer in South Central Vancouver and we do many outreach activities in the Library (https://langara.ca/library/index.html) for our students. The Library has a Climate Action Group that launched a Seed Swap (https://langara.libguides.com/seedswap) in March 2025 with the generous donation of seeds from West Coast Seeds (please see the attached photos). We are grateful to be able to offer our community members (students, staff, faculty and general community) a place to both receive and return seeds. We have the intent to create a special library garden in the future as a place where we can grow some of the WCS donations.

We are an educational service providing both an in school Sustainability and Wellness Program to students from K to 7 as well as an After School Program providing a Garden Club and Cooking Club to 2 Burnaby Schools. The program began in 2011 with the creation of the first edible school garden in Burnaby to bring the classroom into a garden setting and integrating the BC Core Competencies and Curriculum as a way to foster eating habits, food security and literacy, environmental awareness and mental health.

The full after school and in school program is offered at Forest Grove Elementary and Edmonds Community School to approximately 600 students as well as a mini program at Burnaby Mtn Secondary with about 12 students and once a year at Windsor Elementary to about 150 students.

The Armstrong Elementary School Garden is a new community-supported garden project built during the 2024–2025 school year. The idea started with an idea from staff who wanted to create a hands-on learning space for students and the staff asked the school's Parents' Advisory Committee to fund and build the project. We hoped to build a garden where kids could learn about food, nature, and sustainability. 

In April 2025, over 50 volunteers joined us for a full-day work party to build the raised beds. In May, each class planted vegetables, herbs, and flowers, including seeds donated by West Coast Seeds. We held a grand opening celebration in June with speeches, music, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Now the garden is used daily by students, teachers, and community members.

Cedar Springs is a 501(c) three ecological Conservancy restoring forest and watershed health while providing educational and community access.

The mountain ranch seed library began in 2023 after many years of hosting small intimate, Seeds swaps in the local resource center, farms, and Town Hall. The seed exchanges were growing in size with more people attending, and bringing their seeds from their own gardens and farms to save and share with the community. The seed library was created to promote the highest quality seeds in education around gardening, farming and ranching, Permaculture, and basic agrarian homesteading practices. The mountain ranch seed, library, donates, roughly 3000 seed packets each year to 500 people in the community. There are several pounds of bulk seeds that are shared as well.

The true magic of gardening is found at the table - cooking with seasonal vegetables and arranging hand-picked blooms turns months of tending into moments of joy and pride! A harvest feast is abundance piled high, a gesture of generosity, and a celebration of all that the season and our gardens so generously give.

Chief T'Selehye School is located in Fort Good Hope, a fly-in majority Dene community in the Northwest Territories. Many of our families struggle to afford healthy, fresh foods. Our school had some hydroponic garden towers that weren't being used, and we saw the opportunity to grow fresh healthy food and flowers in school and teach students about gardening, cooking and maybe even agro-business. We applied for a grant for some essentials, and requested a donation of seeds from West Coast Seeds. The rest is history!

The Crescent Valley Resource Centre has always been passionate about combating food insecurity, so in 2019 when opportunity arose, we opened The Growing Place!

There are 62 plots tended to by community gardeners, but the food bank harvest is available to all that use the North End Food Bank.

Our garden committee was established in January of 2025, following initial planning for the project over the previous six months. Beginning as an initiative to fulfill a University requirement by a student, the project grew to incorporate so much more with the help of community volunteers. This committee has been a joint project between the Westend Seniors Activity Center and members of the community. Forwarding this idea of a community garden through a public information session in late January of 2025 yielded positive feedback, with many attendees expressing their support and willingness to set time aside to make this project happen. It was the dedication of community members and their willingness to form a committee that allowed us to move forward (in addition to the generosity of grant funds contributed by other organizations).

Raised helping in the garden alongside my mom, I (Julie) grew up with dirt on my hands, and a love for flowers in my heart. Now a photographer and lifelong garden enthusiast, I capture the beauty of our property in every season—celebrating the tiny details and fleeting moments that make nature magical.

One of the most magical parts of gardening is discovering the details that are often overlooked. A raindrop clinging to a petal, the delicate details of a leaf, a perfectly spun spider’s web, the golden dusting of pollen on a bee’s legs—these are treasures that can’t always be seen at a glance. That’s where macro photography comes in.

We have a large group of patrons we serve in our community. Our community of 4,000 and greater district of 9,000 is who we serve. Our mission is to be a safe, inclusive space for shared information and community gathering.

The St. Albert Seed Library launched in the spring of 2020. We are in our 5th year now and have shared 1000s of seeds with our community. Our goal was to share seeds, provide opportunities for our community to learn about seed saving, increase food security, and provide seeds and education to support pollinators native to our area. Our seeds are sourced through donations from seed companies - thank you West Coast Seeds! And from donations from our local gardeners.

The Prince of Wales Garden Group started in 2022 by a dedicated group of students who wanted to change our school garden. With the support of our staff, we were able to get new garden boxes, marking the beginning of our journey. As our efforts grew, more staff and students joined in to contribute to the garden's development.
Our mission is to create a passion for gardening and connect students to nature.  We foster collaboration among staff and students by learning and working together. We are introducing native plants and pollinators, and hosting workshops. Currently, we are working on our Medicine Wheel Garden, where we plan on growing native plants and sacred medicines, creating a learning environment for both teachers and students.

Our organization was founded in 2015 by Cara Smith, who sadly is not longer with us.  Her vision was to provide the opportunity for people to have a place to garden, in circumstances where they wouldn't be able to otherwise, while also creating food security by growing food for donation to local organizations such as the local food bank and church.

The Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG), founded in 2012, is a non-profit organization displaying a diverse collection of sustainable, organic food plants of the rare, endangered and heirloom varieties. As a public learning centre and food-based tourist attraction, the BBFG offers a variety of educational programming and events for all ages. Our mission has always been to address the issues of food insecurity, sustainable agriculture, and the issues faced by the small family farm through tourism, education, hands on experience and cultural activity.

The Society was incorporated in 1984 as a charitable organization with the purpose of supporting those with a palliative diagnosis, their loved ones and the bereaved. Initially formed as a small volunteer organization with a visiting program, the Society is currently recognized as a leader in the development and delivery of comprehensive hospice palliative care services.

Started in 2013,  our seed library members can "check out" seeds like any other material in the library. Our mission is to provide a free service committed to enriching our community by education its members in the practice of gardening and seed saving, knowing that these practices will foster a more resilient, self-reliant, sharing, and self-sustaining community.

Burbank Public Library is located in Southern California and serves 102,755 people in the Burbank community. We offer community connection, various programs, a variety of research tools, etc. One of our biggest goals is to always provide meaningful programs and...

To build a library in Upland, residents and officials reached out to apply for a grant and received Carnegie funding of $10,000 which was granted in 1911. The library opened in 1913 with Los Angeles architect Homer Glidden designing the building. The contractor, John Gerry, constructed many buildings in Ontario and Upland and is considered important in the development of the community. The building served as a library until 1969, when the library moved to a new building. The current library is housed at 450 N. Euclid, only a stone’s throw away from the Carnegie. The city began making moves to build a new library in the late 1960’s’.  The groundbreaking ceremony was held in December of 1967 and the library was completed in 1968, although it wasn’t open to the public until 1969.