Our Collaborative Garden: An “island of sanity”

Diane Lefroy
Living Systems Network
6 min readMay 9, 2019

Drone view of the garden

In 2010, I purchased a small vacant lot across the street from where I have lived and worked for almost 20 years- in the Brewery Creek neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia,

When I say small, I mean just over 2000 square feet- less than half an acre. With money from an inheritance to invest, I had been looking for something I could afford close to home for some time. My goal…

Diane Lefroy
Living Systems Network

Community activator, gardener, core contributor at Living Systems Network and coFood Vancouver