MY FOOD FOREST JOURNEY

Leaders

Food Forest

Leona Brown is an Indigenous cultural facilitator. Leona was amazing at providing insight into the Indigenous culture, which greatly helped me become a better person. For example, discovering the cultural and traditional importance of tobacco was very interesting and informative.

Lori Snyder is a herbalist and educator who shared the importance and function of various plants found in the food garden. She is very informative. What stuck out to me most was understanding how important flowers are as pollinators.

Marie-Pierre Bilodeau is an important team leader at Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation (VUFFF) and a sustainability activist/educator. Marie allowed me the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in operating and maintaining a food forest. This was very insightful as it taught me how to implement sustainable farming practices in my own life.

Here is the food forest! It is home to many important plants with a variety of uses.

This is the tobacco plant! It can be used medicinally and also as a gift that offers the receiver good luck. What stuck with me the most about tobacco is how easy it is to grow it by yourself. A single seed is sufficient to be able to grow the tobacco plant in your own garden.

This is the sunflower! The sunflower is important to the food forest as it acts as a pollinator while also providing food in the form of its seeds. These sunflower seeds are very nutritious as they provide plenty of healthy fats as well as antioxidants.