Earth Repair Communities

The Garden of Repairs is a public bioremediation demonstration garden on unused city land in Hamilton, Ontario. The collaborators behind the project include Queer and/or Disabled artists, settler, and mixed-race gardeners. The project explores concepts of remediation, repair, responsibility and relationship to land.The project is supported through City of Hamilton's Pilot Placemaking Grant Program, a Hamilton City Enrichment Fund Grant, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Ontario.

yәhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective and Metamimicry are collaborating to develop the site into an intertribal meeting area and a place for growing and gathering food. Issues include: a) pollution and habitat degradation in Mapes Creek, b) urban flooding, c) stormwater and soil pollution, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and dieldrin (in insecticide). Fish ecologist Ashley Napes and other partners are restoring the stream and salmonid habitat, while Metamimicry is installing inoculated wattles, bioswales, and a bioretention overflow area to mitigate on-site stormwater, and supporting ongoing maintenance and monitoring.

Sheep Daddiez is a Regenerative Cooperative cultivating a community around the art of shepherding and land stewardship. While we mindfully tend to food, fiber, and friends. 

The goal of the project is to…

The goal of the project is to…