Edmonton’s Green & Gold Garden

In the spring of 2009, Sarah Bowen, a professor at the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health, posted an intriguing call for volunteers to help create a local community garden that would also benefit women in Rwanda. Sarah and husband Eduardo Parada lived near the university’s farm, in suburban Edmonton, and proposed the idea of using a piece of university farmland for a community garden. The university agreed and generously donated two acres of land to what was named the Green & Gold Community Garden—in recognition of the university’s school colours.