Sechelt Indian Community Garden

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Sechelt Indian Band receives some funding from the CFAI for a community gardens headed by a Sechelt elder Barbara Higgins. She worked outward from her family to support the garden and noted special success with young children who came. Twelve band members help her with garden management and six non-band members. For the fall season she is learning how to process fruit leather in order to offer demonstration workshops in the community. A local land owner has donated her apple harvest to her, and Barbara hopes that processing such foods can provide healthy supplements to people's diets.