Garden & Makerspace
Our Community Garden and Maker’s Space is a place for land-based intervention, creativity, community building, gathering, interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and mentorship.
Development of the Community Garden began in 2021 when our summer student, Brandon Goodland, cleared out overgrown grass, built a fire pit, and built raised beds as well as a composter with repurposed wood. In 2022, we received Come Home Year Funding from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to build an outdoor studio platform, awning, greenhouse and garden beds to kickstart outdoor public programming and land-based art practices at UHA. In 2023 and 2024, our garden coordinator Emma Howell planted lots of seeds and welcomed many community members into the space. In 2025 we were joined by Kenzie Dean as our Land-Based Arts and Community Programs Coordinator where she helped build partnerships, community outreach initiatives, and to build our garden and makerspace as a space for continued learning and mentorship.
As we tend and gather in the Garden at Union House Arts, we would like to recognize that we take responsibility as stewards to ensure we practice care and respect of the history it holds as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq of Ktaqmkuk. We provide a welcoming space for diverse groups of people to gather and share cultural practices creating bonds with one another and in relation to the land we tend.
We are looking forward to another season of sharing our garden space with our community!
We are always looking for volunteers to help support our community garden! For more information about getting involved, please visit our Committees page.
Check out some of the amazing programming that has already taken place in our Community Garden and Outdoor Maker’s Space!
Let’s make something beautiful together.