About
Where worms, bees, birds, and
healthy soil quietly do most of the work.
Imen's Garden started as a backyard project. A few rows of cosmos and zinnias, mostly to see what would happen.
A few seasons later, it's still small. That's on purpose. Growing this way — by hand, without sprays — only works at a certain size.
Most days look the same. Water. Weed. Watch what's flowering. Cut early in the morning while it's still cool. Bring bouquets to people in the neighbourhood.
The garden is part of East Vancouver's small but growing urban farming community. We learn a lot from the other growers around here.
Small scale
Local, by nature.
Everything we grow stays close to home. There's no shipping, no cold chain — just flowers cut the same day they reach you.
We work with a handful of florists, a few restaurants, and people who happen to live nearby. It's enough.
Biodiversity
Sharing the space.
The garden is for the bees and the birds as much as it is for us. We plant for them, leave seed heads through winter, and try not to tidy up too much.
It makes for a noisier garden — in a good way.
