Heart Gardens
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The Heart Gardens are a community permaculture demonstration site in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. They are a living classroom environment designed to teach about nature and ecology, encouraging people to have active relationships with plants and the planet. This web platform can stand alone, or compliment a printed map which may be used to do self guided tours of the Heart Gardens while identifying the plants within them and learning a bit about their functions. Created to illustrate permaculture principles and organic gardening, including a biodynamic compost site and rainbarrel system, the heart gardens hosts a plant community of over 200 species with a special focus on native plants with a history of use by Coastal First Peoples. The heart gardens teach about the land itself and the culture of the land.
