RESOURCES
Factsheets
Curious about composting or organic food growing methods? We’ve got factsheets to cover all of your bases!
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#19 Bioremediation for Urban Gardeners
This Healing City Soils Factsheet offers ways that home-scale food gardeners, small urban farmers and community gardeners can draw on their soil and plant knowledge and skills to remediate soils that are contaminated with low to moderate soil concentrations of heavy metals.
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#26 Multi-Family Dwelling Composting Options
Learn about ways to divert organic matter from the landfill and recycle this nutrient-rich resource in an on-site small-scale composting device.
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#30 DIY Greenhouse
Learn how to build a fairly simple and cheap Greenhouse.
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#31 Three Bin Composter Plans
Learn a fairly easy and fair cheap way to build a 3-bin Composting System using pallets.
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#32 Composting for Businesses
Learn about waste management options for businesses in the CRD, their benefits, and drawbacks.
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#33 Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Gardening with Indigenous plants will bring a range of benefits—including food, medicine, increased habitat and forage for Indigenous pollinators and birds —not to mention they are evolved for their environments, meaning less maintenance work for you once they are established.