VUFFF

Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation is an inclusive, intergenerational, cross-cultural knowledge sharing community physically manifesting as an Indigenous Food Forest called Chén̓chenstway Healing Garden in Oxford Park, a small Indigenous Food Forest in the Hastings & Kamloops Plaza and a Fieldhouse Community Activation Space in Burrard View Park that promote gathering and mutual aid as a way to address social cohesion and food justice in our neighbourhood. We provide space for mental and physical well-being that allow people to come as they are in order to transform deeply rooted social systemic issues.

A food forest is a form of ancestral food growing and land stewardship used by Indigenous and Coast Salish Nations since time immemorial. It is also a term used in permaculture to describe a food production system modelled on woodland forest ecosystems and companion planting. It involves growing a succession of layers that are found naturally in forests. It creates a regenerative and permanent ecosystem resulting in carbon sequestration. The food forests are integrated into social spaces where people from diverse backgrounds can co-learn together while honouring Indigenous and first-generation migrant plant knowledge. 

VUFFF projects are safe and inviting community spaces that welcome people from all cultures, ages, genders, and levels of experience and abilities.