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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Welcome to Victory Gardens for Diversity

Victory Gardens for Diversity: recipes for community-based ecological engagement is an artist residency project at Terra Nova Park. Our team includes lead artist, Lori Weidenhammer, Lois Klassen, Crystal Lee, Jenn Pearson, Catherine Shapiro, and Lori Snyder. Looking forward to inviting you to participate in gardening, bioblitzing, cooking, stitching, dyeing, making paper and creating with us in 2020!
 
Update: Our residency is now complete! Please enjoy our blog and check out our webinars posted on Youtube.




This year-long artist project is inspired by the historical WWII Victory Gardens movement and popular slogans such as: ‘grow your own, can your own’, ‘grow vitamins at your kitchen door’, ‘make-do and mend’, and ‘use it up, wear it out, make it do’. Our artist team will present a diversity of public engagement events including nature walks, citizen science activities, drama and rainbow arts with children from the Nature School, textile-based artist workshops and the creation of biodiversity banners, incorporating printing, embroidery, drawing, cyanotypes and the production of natural dyes and pigments. There will also be tea parties, bioblitzes and picnics with artist-led workshops including hands-on planting, seed-saving, salve-making, tincture-making and cooking activities.




 


 

Thursday Oct. 1 7-8:30 pm

Victory Gardens for Diversity presents the final presentation in the series Gardens of Our Lives: a webinar with Lori Weidenhammer

Kinder Gardens: New Visions for Pollinator Habitat and Accessible Food Systems

This is now up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/8FM99slJeGw

A grandchild of depression-era prairie settler farmers, Lori Weidenhammer has worked as an artist-educator in several school and community gardens. She is passionate about connecting people of all ages to plant and insect biodiversity and beauty. As a wrap-up event to her group’s residency at the Terra Nova Farm, Lori will share her vision for a more ethical, ecologically sound way to produce food and preserve biodiversity in cities and rural areas. This will be a call to action: to work together as agri-cultural dreamers to learn from our experiences during the pandemic and make dramatic, lasting improvements to the way we manage our overburdened ecosystems.