Gardening with Nature

Gardening with Nature with Marina Vander Heyden.  Marina will share her journey of cultivating a ½-acre food forest and permaculture-inspired garden over the past four years. The talk will explore practical and inspiring ideas, presenting nature-based perspectives on how we can grow resilient, self-sustaining, and nourishing gardens. Everyone Welcome.

Marina is a passionate gardener and regenerative grower from Uxbridge, Ontario, who transformed a former sod field into a thriving half-acre food forest filled with fruit trees, berries, herbs, flowers, and native plants. Guided by permaculture principles, she works with nature to build healthy soil, support pollinators and wildlife, and grow food in harmony with the land. She shares her experience to inspire others to create gardens that are ecologically sound, productive, and reciprocal with the web of life around us.