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Welcome to the SpruceLab blog, where we share our thoughts on relationships with the land, and decolonizing land-based practices. Follow us on social media to be alerted about new posts.

Paper to Praxis: Informal Growing, Stewardship & Bloordale Beach Community Gardens
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Paper to Praxis: Informal Growing, Stewardship & Bloordale Beach Community Gardens

As a recent Master of Planning graduate, I’m really pleased to have been awarded last month with the Minto Planning for Sustainability: Best MRP Award for the best Major Research Paper (MRP) related to sustainability. This paper, researched and written from home in the height of the pandemic, was a bit outside the box when it comes to urban planning research. I worked hard to make it practical, and I'm grateful to have been recognized and supported by Ryerson University’s (renaming in process) School of Urban and Regional Planning faculty for exploring the role that community members play in caring for plants and the earth on public land (without permission)…

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Worldview Bridging: Improving Indigenous Engagement
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Worldview Bridging: Improving Indigenous Engagement

As someone who does land-based work, what is your decolonization plan? What skills, knowledge, and relationships do you need to better bridge worldviews with Indigenous Treaty Rights holders and Peoples?

SpruceLab Principal, Sheila Boudreau, recently spoke at OPPI21 Conference on how planners can improve Indigenous engagement in their work, such as in the environmental assessment (EA) process…

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Water is Life
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Water is Life

Where I live in Toronto, we are all Treaty people. I was asked to write an article by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects for their journal, Landscapes / Paysages, an issue titled: water’s edge / rivages. Recently published, I am sharing my article here, ‘Water is Life’, with the hopes of inspiring others of considering your own relationships with water, the lifeblood of the planet…

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