Grow With Us

We welcome you in to learn alongside us and create food justice in our community as guests on the unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Our Story

Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation is an intergenerational, cross-cultural knowledge sharing community in the form of urban food forests, medicinal gardens, Indigenous foodlands and collective gardens as well as land-based and online learning spaces. 

Our Story

Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation is an intergenerational, cross-cultural knowledge sharing community in the form of urban food forests, medicinal gardens, Indigenous foodlands and collective gardens as well as land-based and online learning spaces. 

Mission & Vision

VUFFF’s mission is to transform Vancouver’s neighbourhoods into the nourishing spaces we need them to be. We work to amplify and prioritize Indigenous ways of knowing and marginalized voices in our public parks and green spaces. We transform our environment through community knowledge-sharing, food forests and by creating hubs for mutual aid and exchange.

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.

VUFFF projects have become a focal point for individuals and organizations dedicated to just food systems, Indigenous food sovereignty and the preservation and propagation of traditional cultural foodways.

 

We are a venue for community leadership to emerge and gain traction through skill-building and opportunities to deepen our social, cultural and environmental awareness.

 

VUFFF is co-led by local urban Indigenous knowledge-sharers and diverse folks who represent our community.

 

Since April 2020 we have been working closely with the Vancouver Park Board, connecting with our neighbours in meaningful ways, conducting a multitude of free workshops and events with partnering organizations such as Aboriginal Mothers Centre Society, Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, Hastings Community Centre Food and Gardens Program to name a few and spreading the word about food justice as a tool for systemic change. We host an annual event called Neighbourhood Food Week boasting 24 free events delivered throughout the week to over 600 attendees and happens in September each year in 14 different parks, plazas and centres in our Hastings-Sunrise community.

This is a pivotal moment in time; parks have become a critical space in our cities during the isolating years of pandemic life and from the ongoing loss of our natural environments. We are renewing our vital bond with nature that will shape Vancouver’s “green deserts” into places of gathering with endless opportunities for the community to thrive, become socially cohesive and in turn, play a critical part in creating a thriving planet.

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