Our deepest gratitude to all neighbours, volunteers, and friends of Frog Hollow and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. With your help and support, we completed our Medicine Wheel Garden at P’ipa:m Lelum in the summer of 2022!

Hands up to Elder Deborah Baker and Leona Brown for leading the Ground Breaking Ceremony for our garden expansion. Thanks to all the BHIC seniors for their hard work building the garden together in the hot summer weather in 2022 (BHIC: Brain Health in Community Project, in collaboration with Simon Fraser University)

A circle of orange flowers at the centre is honouring all the children uncovered on Residential School grounds. Around the circle are the four quadrants planted with Indigenous plants traditionally used for medicine or food, representing the four teachings of a Medicine Wheel.

The beautiful mural on the pathway next to the garden was created by Ts’kanchtn (Calvin Charlie-Dawson) , a young indigenous artist from North Vancouver, BC. A group of youth artists from Frog Hollow’s Make It Program painted the mural in the fall of 2022.

Most of the plants in the garden are used as food and medicine by the Indigenous people who have been here for millennia. You are welcome to visit and walk gently on Grandmother Earth.

*A big thanks to Metis educator and herbalist, Lori Snyder, for sharing her knowledge of native plants and gardening and to EYA (The Environmental Youth Alliance) for supplying us with many of the plants that live here.

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