Food is where community begins. We can build community, create meaningful livelihood and design sustainable neighbourhoods when we pay attention to how the food we need travels from the farm to the kitchen. First stop, the soil, where Life begins.

Through our involvement in this journey we can discover how to care for the soil which provides, in collaboration with the weather, the essential nutrients that enable plants to grow strong and healthy. When we feed the soil we feed ourselves. When we feed the soil we create the conditions which enable future generations to feed themselves. For it is the soil that provides the environment which enables plants to thrive. A good gardener makes soil.

Care of the soil is how we learn the importance of our connection to the earth and what our role is within the web that is Life. We learn to prevent problems such as erosion. Through skills, such as observation, we can witness, for example, how much sun falls on a given spot. With this information, we then can design our gardens to best take advantage of the amount of sun that reaches that space.