A cottager group’s Indigenous community garden project

—CORINNA VANGERWEN

WHEN A GROUP of kids are engaged in a passionate conversation with their friends, it would be fair to assume they’re discussing video games. But when Sharon Langfield noticed four boys talking as they leaned against the fence of Waubaushene’s community garden one day, what she overheard was a debate about the merits of different varieties of lettuce. (One had a preference for curly-leafed; another insisted Romaine was superior.) Sweet moments like these are the fruits of an Indigenous community garden project, spearheaded by Sharon and her husband, Peter Cox, who were looking for a way to bring the Georgian Bay community together after the isolation of pandemic life. With help from the Talpines Property Owners’ Association, which secured funding from the township for building materials, and the guidance of neighbour…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023

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