Campus Native Plant Garden Working Group

2012 January 23

Do you want hands-on learning about supporting local native plants, and how to remove plants that destroy the balance in local Indigenous food systems?

…Or if you already have knowledge about local plants and ‘restoration’, want to share what you’ve learned?

In the fall of 2011 a ‘new’ working group started up, focused on pulling invasives and planting seeds at the Native Plant Garden beside Maclaurin Building, at UVic in the homelands of the Lekwungen Peoples.

Many years ago a VIPIRG working group helped set up this garden on campus focused on local native vegetation, but the collective commitment to steward/ess it lapsed — it is now over-run with invasive species and could use some care and tending and friendship.

We’re interested in: working with facilities management around removing ivy and other invasives, focusing on reinstating plants that are useful for Lekwungen families, and looking into using the garden as an education tool, an informal native plant ‘nursery’, and an example of what restoration can look like.

For more info or to be added to the email list contact us!