Welcome To This Place:

Vancouver

Vancouver’s Means of Production garden is an ‘open source’ landscape where people can experiment growing their own botanical materials for art and craft use. It is also a community hub where ongoing investigations into art and ecology take place. The EartHand Gleaners Society—a group of artists, makers and educators who bring people together to connect with the land through creative projects—hosted a number of workshops at the Means of Production garden this summer. These were led by artists from First Nations, settler and newcomer backgrounds who walked, made things and talked about the land and plant-based materials connected to them with participants. The workshops were an opportunity to learn more about their home and land on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Together, they created a performative walking tour full of music, stories and celebration.