SAHALLI PARK
COMMUNITY GARDEN
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sign made of ceramics on top of a gate that reads “sahalli park community garden” with small blobs of glazed ceramic around the lettering. there is a trailing rose growing next to the sign, with a dozen palm size blooms. under the sign on its right are raspberry bushes.
Ceramic sign made by Vivienne and Derya in 2012, long before this collaboration.
Photo courtesy of Adassa Brooks
 four figures standing around a foldable table talking and working at prepairing lunch. it is sunny and they are under a tree. there is a watermelon on the ground and a bag of charcoal.
Sahba cooking ratatouille for the 1st Sahalli Park event where we built the Commons Garden.
 an iron cast pan full of thinliy sliced onion, zucchini, eggplant, and peppers, shaped in a spiral and tomato sauce in the middle. three newly built garden beds topped with soil. each bed is about 10 feet long, and 4 feet wide. their hights vary 16, 24 and 32 inches from the ground. the beds are outside of the fence of sahalli park community garden. an arm of a person in the foreground, with small plastic toys of a hare, and two salmon and a flashlight resting together. in the background is fresh soil heaped garden bed. fence and three raised garden beds in the foreground. the rest of the community garden is visible in the back, with two large trees shading parts of the garden
The Commons Garden beds; built and filled with fresh soil on July 10th and 11th.
 cristian, in a black hat, shirt, shorts and shoes looking at the camera with arms folded, he is smiling with his eyes.
Crispy posin.
 a dozen people seated in a circle outside in the park in daylight, in plastic folding chairs, conversing with food and drinks around them.
The artists from the project meeting each other as a group at the BBQ event.
 closeup of a bowl of blueberries adassa, standing in front of the sahalli garden fence, with a handful of blueberries and a huge smile looking at the camera. she has gardening gloves and tools in her other hand.
Adassa with blueberries. Adassa has been gardening at Sahalli Park since 1988.
 two kneeled figures in the back working on building a raised bed wit drills in their hands. there are lumber scattered around them, and some power tools. they are in the park, working in the sun and shade mixed.
Conor and Mendel building the Commons Garden beds.
 close up of a large jug of saffron and basil seed infused drink with ice. the basil seeds have swelled up and formed a gelatinous coating on them
Sahba’s recipe for saffron lemonade with basil seeds.
 five shish kebabs skewers neatly laid out with peppers, eggplants, zucchini and mushrooms shiny with oil and specked with herb seasoning. they are resting on a large bowl, on top of a cooler on the grass.
Veggie şiş kebabs.
 large bowl of marinated vegitables, seasoned for the shish kebabs, on a table. on the table is hand sanitizer, lemons, peppers, black pepper, a tin of olive oil, and two hands are reaching into the bowl to take the fruit. close up of yellow and purple potatoes. they are young potatoes and look very fresh with some dirt on them
Moses’ potatoes from his apartment garden.
 raised garden bed with young plants growing inside them. there is a hand painted sign that reads “3 plots for communal garden on the stolen lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. clouds and clear sky patches behind in the background
Putting signage up by the Commons Garden beds.
 three young pepper plants on the garden bed, freshly watered.
Pepper plants gifted by neighbours.
 a young kindergarten aged child with a shovel being watched by an adult behind them. the child is shoveling soil into the garden beds. there are raspberrie bushes twice the childs hight around the fence and the raised beds.
Mavi and Emma feeding the raspberries fresh soil.
 a hand showing a formation of onion bulbs from the walking onion flowers. the image moves revealing the eight pointed star shape of the bulblet.
Adassa's onion bulblets ↗, which served as inspiration for this website's background image.
Sahalli Park Community Garden is one of the four gardens across xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories where our project Looking at the Garden Fence grew, worked and rested. Sahalli Park Community Garden is located on Fraser Street and East 8th Avenue ↗. We worked with neighbours, community gardeners and collaborators in the project to develop and build three raised gardening beds titled The Commons Garden located outside the west side fence.

Our events in 2021 at Sahalli Park Community Garden:

July 10th & 11th
• Work party and BBQ event at Sahalli
August 25th
• Kage and Moses drumming performance
August 26th
• Sahalli park artwork install by Zion
September 11th
• Work party