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Vacant Lots Farm Club

We are an urban farm club, that helps Calgarians wellbeing, by growing food and flowers to share.

23/07/2024

Vacant lots around the city sit empty as they await future development. We see a better way.

Like adding well-rounded amenities and outdoor programming, rewilding the landscape, adding biodiversity, enhancing soil composition, educating neighbours and visitors just to name a few.

06/05/2024

Production Garden. No dig raised beds of food and flowers. High intensity, small footprint.

This is one of five components to our curated kit of parts.

01/05/2024

Vacant lots around the city sit empty as they await future development. We see a better way.

22/04/2024

We are designers and practical plant growers. We experiment in the garden and the kitchen. We indulge our senses in the outdoors.

19/04/2024

We are a club that eats together. We infuse all of our activities with the senses, especially the taste buds. And believe us, fresh from the garden is always more flavourful.

Alice Waters captures it beautifully in a recent interview with Vogue where she discusses the meaning of slow food, and getting everyone involved in regenerative farming.

17/04/2024

Food and flowers go together like wine and cheese. Or crackers and cheese. Or bread and cheese.

Our point is that Vacant Lots Farm Club supports Calgarian’s wellbeing by growing food and flowers to share.

16/04/2024

Vacant lots around the city sit empty as they await future development. We see a better way.

Help us discover Calgary’s underused spaces and transform with massive growing potential.

Send us a note or a photo of anywhere in the city larger than 1000 square meters (~2 residential city lots) you think could use a therapeutic growing space.

10/04/2024

Hoop House Clubhouse. A functional space to shelter plants and people.

08/04/2024

Our purpose is to promote outdoor nature based healing experiences. But what about when we’re indoors?!... We like fresh cut flowers and garden tools nearby.

How do you bring nature inside?

Fun fact: gifted us the eggplant pencil case on a visit to his home in Vancouver. His quirky charm and artful expressions inspire our work at the farm. We hope to bring the same delight and wonder.

29/03/2024

We’re on the lookout!

We are actively looking for land stewards in Calgary that have underutilized urban lots.

If that’s you... let us know! [email protected]

27/03/2024

Food and flowers is our jam. It’s what we grow because we love to eat and relax in beauty. There’s nothing quite like getting dirt under your fingernails to pull you out of your digital day to day.

How to join the club?! Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on our lot locations, opening dates, and events.

22/03/2024

Messy Meadow. In the messy meadow food and flowers unite and create an abundant ecosystem to explore. It’s also an excellent way to beautify an area and immediately create biodiversity.

20/03/2024

Richard Christiansen, founder of Flamingo Estate, a “home of radical pleasure”, “hidden by a lush orchard and dense gardens” in Los Angeles. Richard’s vision, rooted in the pleasures of the garden, serves as a great source of inspiration to our work at Vacant Lots Farm Club.

This is what therapeutic horticulture means to us. We are cultivating a club united in the great luxury, and responsibility, it is to be part of the natural world.

12/03/2024

Compost Patch - There is beauty in every part of the process. We offer you chances to appreciate nature from a new perspective. Discover what’s right under your feet.

06/03/2024

All seasons have something to teach us. We help you tune in to the world around you by getting outside. See, smell, touch, hear and taste the seasonality of your city.

01/03/2024

50/50

Connecting people with the beauty of food and flowers, the wonders of the soil, and the stillness of nature is an empowering individual and community act. That's why our club is free and open for anyone to join!

50% of everything we grow gets shared with our members and 50% gets donated to local food security organizations.

Visit vacantlotsfarmclub.com and sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when our memberships go live.

16/02/2024

An activity for the senses, and a healthy snack. Discover the sprouting of the speckled pea!

Get yours at our booth at the Calgary City Teachers' Convention.

26/07/2023

We believe that we can design a greener, more intentional future. ⁠
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We are currently working on our first lot. Connect with us and follow along to see our design ideas for the farm!⁠
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20/07/2023

Our farm is about cultivating positive change. It is not about how much food or flowers we grow, it is about how you feel when you are there. We want to encourage citizens of all ages to engage with urban landscapes in a new way. We want to showcase the abundance that can flourish in these landscapes and the healing that can take place. ⁠
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Therapeutic horticulture for the masses.⁠
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14/07/2023

Food and flowers, or better yet... both! ⁠
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Cornflowers are in full bloom and not only attract the bees but us humans as well. We love to include these indigo petals as a garnish on a salad, cut for a small bouquet, or let loose until the seeds are ready to collect and store for next year. ⁠
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At the farm we want to celebrate blooms that delight and satisfy. Our gardens will include a variety of edible flowers, herbs, and ⁠leafy greens.⁠
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Photo: backyard planter seed mix test⁠

30/06/2023

Nature has complex mechanisms by which it can affect our health and well being. Studies show engaging with nature can improve your creativity, boost your immune system, and accelerate recovery. A visit to the farm is an opportunity to lower your blood pressure, get some exercise, or calm your mind.

Come get dirty with us.

24/06/2023

We're a wellness farm.⁠
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How do you feel when you are outside?⁠
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Most people find refuge in nature. They use it to find quiet, calm, and restorative moments in their lives. Seeing a healthy landscape of diverse plants, breathing deeply of the fresh air, hearing nature alive all around, feeling the myriad different organic textures. All of these experiences bring balance to our modern, human centric existence.⁠
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Everything at our farm is designed to compel you to stretch in the sun, breathe the fresh air, disconnect from your day, meet your community, get covered in soil, smell some flowers, and harvest veggies.⁠
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Our farm is all about how you feel when you're there, not how much we grow.

21/06/2023

On an empty lot in north central Calgary, a new urban farm is taking shape...

Our purpose is to promote outdoor, nature based, healing experiences.

We convert vacant lots into therapeutic growing spaces, through practical volunteer work.

We are an urban farm club, that helps Calgarians wellbeing, by growing food and flowers to share.

Coming soon!

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