Grow with DIGA
Fall 2007
Plants grow high with a little help from my friends
GROWING FRIENDSHIP: Betty Cheung, Meredith Maxwell and Melissa
Rahme together on a sunny August day.
Volunteers have been ensuring that members’
gardens are growing to new...
More
Grow with DIGA
Fall 2007
Plants grow high with a little help from my friends
GROWING FRIENDSHIP: Betty Cheung, Meredith Maxwell and Melissa
Rahme together on a sunny August day.
Volunteers have been ensuring that members’
gardens are growing to new levels.
The Disabled Independent Gardeners Association
(DIGA) makes gardening accessible, whatever and
wherever that may be: window boxes, balconies,
containers, backyards and community gardens.
Much of this is inspirational – but sometimes a little
perspiration is required.
Call in the volunteers!
Melissa Rahme, of West Vancouver, was facing the
prospect of giving up her seriously overgrown
Ambleside community plot.
So DIGA teamed her
with volunteer – and member – Meredith Maxwell.
“We are working on an almost blank canvas as I lost
most of my plants to weeds during these last two
years of my convalescence,” said Rahme.
“I definitely needed a lot of help with the planting this year, and Meredith has been great.
And because I have he
Less