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Spring has arrived at the Allen Sapp Gallery Healing Garden. Saturday, a spring tea and planting event was held and volunteers worked in the garden established last year. In the shape of a medicine wheel with a teepee structure in the centre, the garden design uses the permaculture concepts of increasing biodiversity and storing water and energy to eventually reduce the amount of human energy needed to maintain it. There are over 30 medicinal plants growing in the garden as well as sacred ceremonial plants and bushes for shade and shelter, including saskatoons. Top left, volunteer Sherron Burns and program co-ordinator Kjelti Anderson plant one of those sacred plants, tobacco. Top right, volunteers prepare harvested plants to cook and eat. Weekly workbees will be held on Wednesdays throughout the summer. Anyone interested is welcome to attend and help out.Photos by Jayne Foster
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