can you dig it!
Urban Agriculture Stimulates Community Development
The Can You Dig It initiative is about socially marginalized persons transforming urban spaces into agricultural spaces, bringing together their community to do so, and collectively giving back to others.
Through this initiative, persons with developmental disabilities establish a produce garden at their home. They coordinate neighborhood hubs so that neighbors, family members and local organizations can participate.
This is an initiative that focuses on contribution, community building, and creating opportunities for social and economic inclusion.
The mission:
- Empower persons with developmental disabilities and expose the community to their skills and abilities.
- Facilitate social inclusion for persons with developmental disabilities and create meaningful, self-sustaining micro-networks within the community, which are created and coordinated by persons with developmental disabilities.
- Contribute to the community and bring people together by giving back a percentage of the yield of each garden to food depots to assist the economically disadvantaged.
Ckick here to learn more about our community gardens in Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore:
- Can You Dig It! website, news, updates, photos and more!
- Up! Elgin community garden blog
- Fiskars Project Orange Thumb
Media Reports
- East Side Dirt Patch Pushing Up Flowers Vancouver Courier, June 25, 2010
- Project Orange Thumb builds Vancouver community garden in one day Vancouver Observer, June 24, 2010
- Starting a Garden in One Day CBC evening newscast, June 23, 2010
- Fiskars partners with Canadian Tire and City of Vancouver to plant a community garden today City Farmer on-line, June 23, 2010
- A sense of community, a sense of security, Vancouver Sun on April 22, 2010