Story Info

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Rob Copeman-Haynes
Deelta, BC,Canada
2023

Story & Experience

This boulevard was a high-maintenance “no place” producing only grass clippings which were taken away to the local green-waste supplied turf farm. There was only a hedge to hide behind for humans, and no benefits for other creatures.

This boulevard was a high-maintenance “no place” producing only grass clippings which were taken away to the local green-waste supplied turf farm. There was only a hedge to hide behind for humans, and no benefits for other creatures.

Why this Place?

Deelta, BC,Canada

This boulevard was a high-maintenance “no place” producing only grass clippings which were taken away to the local green-waste supplied turf farm. There was only a hedge to hide behind for humans, and no benefits for other creatures.

Act of Beauty

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The Healing Garden is becoming a self-perpetuating act of beauty for and within humans and the more-than-human. In a couple days an indigenous friend will bring stories into the space and it will become a place of Reconciliation, too.

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