Hello friends in Vancouver,
Incredible news!
Yesterday night I was on my way for some party and since I was a bit early, I decided to stop for a few minutes at the Strathcona community garden to check on my garden plot.
It was already nightfall, so I didn’t expect to meet anyone in the garden. But instead, I found the garden teeming with life and gardeners inside and around the Garden House busy harvesting wheat!
The wheat, I learned, had been grown over the summer in a neighboring garden and dried in the Garden House for the past few weeks. Gardeners were now threshing - separating the seeds from the straw to complete the harvest.
The atmosphere in the Garden House was eerie and from another world. The smell of dried straw was intoxicating. As I watched the gardeners sift the grains and collect them in large buckets, I was transported to a time and place we don't belong to.
I took a few low-fi pictures on my iPhone which do a poor job in capturing the magic of the moment.
I never thought I would see that – people harvesting wheat in the city! Cabbages and tomatoes and beans are one thing. But that’s bread we’re talking about. What a milestone in the fight to regain our food sovereignty.
The gardeners were very much aware of the somewhat groundbreaking nature of their work, and some wondered jokingly whether this constituted or not the largest wheat harvest in Vancouver in recent decades...
Okay so now, here is the scoop:
Today Saturday September 24, 2:00 PM there is a work party at the Strathcona community garden to continue the wheat harvest.
(That’s at 800 Prior Street, at the Garden House behind the apple orchard)
I had plans for this afternoon, but I am definitely changing those to be part of this. Hope you can make it too!
According to the weather man today will be a glorious day and WE ARE GOING TO HARVEST WHEAT IN THE CITY!!
zhengjx20160622
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