WELCOME to The Garden Institute of B.C. (TGIBC)
HISTORY OF TGIBC and MISSION STATEMENT
The Garden Institute has been promoting the principles and practices of organic agriculture, community gardening, biodiversity conservation and heritage seed saving since 1998. Founders Sharon Rempel and Nancy Finlayson have worked in the Canadian organic movement since 1986.
The Garden Institute of B.C.(TGIBC) and The Garden Institute (TGI) of Alberta are the same registered Canadian charity. We incorporated in B.C. as a non profit society in November 2008. We were a non profit organization in Alberta from 1998 to 2008.
In 2012 we are working on a Crop Climate Project (CCP) to collect data on four field sites across Canada. We will collect weather, soil and climate data and interface that with the variety performance. We are working with wheat and potatoes, two food security crops.
We are sponsoring the Grain Chain project based in Saskatchewan. Contact Holly Peterson and Grain Chain for more information.
We are a sponsor of the first Greek 'Seed School' to be offered in fall 2012. Contact Aegilops Kostas Koutis for more information.
Current TGIBC c.v of past projects including our work in Nepal, Bangladesh, Greece, US and Canada.
Current Directors: Sharon Rempel, Dr. Richard Hebda Ian King and Garrett Pittenger. Program funders are W. Garfield Weston Foundation and October Hill Foundation.
Donors: We welcome additional funding for any of our projects and will consider new projects if they come with their own funding.
We have two free downloads in pdf:
DIG. Diversity in Gardens. Activities to explore seeds and biodiversity in food.
On Farm Research Guide. Ways to discover answers to your own agriculture questions. Participatory research involves everyone as equals. Farmers are the world's plant breeders doing 'on farm' research and variety selection.