Growing Resilience
A project about tending to a garden and tending to your community.
Growing Resilience was for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth between the ages of 16-26 in the Greater Saint John region who are interested in gardening, local food, and identifying ways they can address climate change in their communities.
Over 8 months, youth participated in 7 workshops to learn how to start, grow, harvest, and cook their own food produced locally in community garden plots. Participants will be able to take home and eat any of the food that they produce! Additionally, they partook in a Photovoice project where they identified the things in their communities that they see as issues and assets to address climate change.
This program was in partnership with ACAP Saint John, Wisdom2Action, and the New Brunswick Environmental Network (NBEN RENB), and was funded by
Ecclesiastical Insurance Canada.