Help a Disability Justice Garden Project Take Root

Hearthstone Access-Alliance Garden is a small, peer-run, Disability Justice initiative. We are committed to making nutritious food & gardening skills more accessible to our communities. We work in collaboration with communities and individuals most impacted by food insecurity throughout central & north Vancouver Island.

We have rented a large greenhouse, garden space & small orchard in North Qualicum. We want to make it a lush food forest to distribute food for free and host accessible skillsharing. The land hasn’t been worked in many years & we need to start from the ground up! Being peer-run, we are a group primarily made up of low income disabled people with capacity to do the work & not a lot of cash.

We have many years of farming and growing skills between us and a passion to feed people. We need your help getting off the ground!

Our initial ask is $2500 which is the minimum needed for a few months rent & our initial materials. Our immediate need is $350 for March rent. The essentials are:

Rent - $1400 ($350/month x 4)

Soil/compost mix - $490 + delivery for 10 yards of soil

Hardware mesh, fencing, lumber, tools - min $500

We may update these amounts as needed and will provide transparency as the money is utilized. Thank you so much for supporting HAAG!

the crew @ Hearthstone

(Quin, Dutch, Lea, Rachel & Eli)

P.S. Some other donations we are looking for:

-a wheelbarrow or two

-shovels

-rakes

-weeding benches & tools

-garden gloves & hats

-a gas powered weed eater & lawn mower

-lumber

-gravel or wood chips

-a lot of cardboard

-tarps

-compost bins

-deck screws

-a wood stove

-bird netting

etc

People power ie., experienced graphic designers, volunteers at all levels, skills & capacities for things like weeding, building, arbory, irrigation, etc.

Please get in touch at hearthstone AAG at gmail or on Instagram @hearthstoneAAG if you want to get involved.