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The PLOT Community Sharing Garden and Newton Medicine Wheel

Proudly serving the Newton, Surrey community since 2016

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Garden Work Party
Sunday, March 10, 12pm – 4pm
more details here

Spring Equinox Observation
Sunday, March 17, 12pm – 4pm
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

– Margaret Mead

In 2016 the PLOT transformed a vacant 2-acre site near the Surrey Newton Bus Loop into a plentiful organic Sharing Garden, FREE to all the community. The garden is anchored by the Newton Medicine Wheel, which creates a physical, cultural and spiritual context for personal and community healing.  Free healthy food, weekly work parties and Sunday Picnics, plus universal indigenous solstice/equinox celebrations engage a very diverse neighbourhood.  Wonderful and unexpected connections are made between those of all ages, stages and stations in life – young, elderly, families, long-time residents, newcomers, immigrants, refugees, those with means, those without (including the homeless and those with substance abuse and mental health challenges). 

Our goal is not just to support local food security, but to nurture spirits in a community with painful and chronic challenges. Through inclusion, sharing, and trust, we strive to create a place of hope, abundance, safety and compassion. The PLOT has been lauded by social innovators, writers, and replicators as a bold and dynamic way of helping heal a broken community.

A short Doc about the PLOT

Documentary courtesy of Jasmeen Virk, Anna Choi, Yasmeen Hakimi, SFU School of Interactive Arts and Technology

What makes the PLOT exceptional?

Read what some leading social changemakers have written about the PLOT

Get Involved!

The PLOT is community-based. The edible, medicinal and pollinator plants are cared for by volunteers and are free for the community to harvest.

Are you a gardener and interested in volunteering? Perhaps become a Garden Mentor and guide a weekly or bi-monthly gardening group? Would you like to be part of a group of garden tenders that meet up to tend the garden?

Would you or your family, your school group, or organization like to take on a garden plot to tend and grow veggies for community harvest through the 2024 season? We have whole garden plots or a portion of a plot available if you would like to be a steward and grow food for the community.

Event Hosts — Would you like to host an event? Are you interested in sharing your skills or facilitating a fun nature or garden related event – art creating, birding, bee keeping, foraging etc? Would you like to volunteer to assist with any of our free community events.

Nature heals and the PLOT is a Healing Garden. It is a space for healing groups from the community to practice meditation, Tia Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, etc.

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