Urban Aboriginal Food Security

Harmony Garden is located in North Vancouver,specifically, in the village of Humulchs'n. This garden is a community effort that was initiated by a small group of Elders in the community, who had started a Community Kitchen in the basement of St Paul's Church in the village of Sla7an, which is also located in North Vancouver.

The food security in this community was almost non-existent, until this program began through the dedicated efforts of the Elders. They saw the need to provide a hot meal for community members, and find out how they were doing with their nutritional needs, and whether or not they were being met.

The initial idea was to start a soup kitchen, and with some progressive suggestions towards Community Kitchens, these Elders were convinced! It was more exciting to imagine how cooking together would be able to help them build community, learn about their cousins, aunties, uncles, and other relatives, and what they were doing on a weekly basis.