May’s End: Cultivating Community & Crops

As May draws to a close, we reflect on the earlier part of this month when we set aside our cameras, laptops, paintbrushes, and tools. This allowed us to dedicate ourselves fully to our living lab and food security program, an intensive but incredibly rewarding period as we prepared everything for this year’s growing season. We’re starting to see hundreds of strawberry flowers, like those pictured, opening up, with many more on the way – it’s truly an exciting time!

With June just around the corner, we’ll be returning to our regular arts programming, and we also eagerly anticipate the start of our internship and mentorship programs. But for now, our focus remains on the grow boxes and raised planters. There are still many beds to plant, with a diverse array of crops including peppers, onions, giant pumpkins, sage, blackberries, saskatoon berries, raspberries, tomatoes, and even young apple and cherry trees. It promises to be an exciting summer.

But for now, we watch with eager anticipation for that first fresh batch of strawberries.