Trinity Bellwoods community garden
Toronto, Canada · Operator: Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park
Overview
A volunteer-tended garden inside a city park, bulldozed by the city without warning.
Citizen participation
Volunteers of Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park tended it to beautify the park.
Operating model
An informal volunteer garden inside a city park, subject to the city's management decisions.
Impact
In June 2021 the city bulldozed the garden without warning in minutes, discarding volunteers' belongings and a canoe symbolizing the Lost Rivers project; officials cited concern that items could be hidden inside. Lesson: informal gardens on public land can vanish on an administrative whim.
Crops
- plants
- vegetables
Scale
トリニティ・ベルウッズ公園内の温室脇。2021年6月に撤去 (bulldozed June 2021)
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