Canada: Concrete Garden Magazine

Grow – A short film by Concrete Garden Magazine – about urban agriculture in Victoria, B.C. from Concrete Garden Magazine on Vimeo.

The five students decided that people needed to be more informed and open to the idea of food grown in urban settings, whether that was through community farms, backyard gardening, or just by supporting local farmers.

Concrete Garden is a quarterly print magazine about sustainable urban agriculture based in Victoria, B.C. We feature compelling stories on our food system, local businesses, Indigenous food practices and food sovereignty, green architecture, and global ecological issues from a local perspective.

Concrete Garden is dedicated to decolonizing agriculture and food communities throughout our work. We humbly acknowledge that this magazine is produced on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish – the Lekwungen and W?SÁNE? peoples.

In Every Issue

Garden Journal: Follow along with columnist Heather Neale Furneaux as she grows her urban farming skills—with three children in tow.

Urban Pollinator: Profiling a local person and what they’re doing to improve food security in their community.

Seed to Plate: Why grow your own food if you’re not going to make something delicious out of it? This section highlights local chefs and recipes using ingredients you can grow in your own garden or find down the street at a farmers’ market.

Garden Design: Local landscape and garden designers share what they’re thinking about right now.

Land Writes: A regular column that covers Indigenous food issues from Indigenous writers, covering Nations’ traditions, perspectives, and viewpoints.

Local Flavour:Take a tour of the Island’s local food movement with this section highlighting one area you might not know too much about.

Grow Your Own: Guides to turn your living space into a growing oasis.

Sustainable Structures: A look at the most innovative sustainable buildings in our region.

Agri-Culture: Reviews of books, movies, new technologies, and more that inspire the urban agriculturalist.

See the magazine.