Canada: This parking lot farm is a hidden bounty of produce in the heart of Vancouver
Sole Food Street Farms — made up of three acres of plastic bins, orchards, greenhouses and beehives
By Shawn Conner
Vancouver Sun
Published Jul 29, 2025
Excerpt:
Since planting its first seeds on two-thirds of an acre in a parking lot next to the Astoria Hotel 16 years ago, Sole Food has also cultivated a sense of community, provided meaningful employment and given individuals facing barriers to stability a chance to thrive. Each season, the farm employs about 30 people, many with no prior farming experience.
Guy, one of the farm’s longest-standing farmers, was part of the inaugural season, four locations ago.
“I was going through a bunch of health issues before I got here,” he recalled on a hot July afternoon at the farm while watching over the Sole Food dog, Makwa (“food” in Ojibwe).
“I was working at the bottle depot, but by the time I was 50, I thought I’d never be able to work again. My previous job with the city didn’t work out, so I ended up here. At first, I couldn’t do much, but as I got better, I became a supervisor.”
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-this-parking-lot-farm-is-a-hidden-bounty-of-produce-in-the-heart-of-vancouver/
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