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Volunteer

Roll up your sleeves and help us restore this land!

 

Join us for:

Invasive species pulls

Rock picking parties

Hedgerow planting

Compost turning

Volunteer directly with a farmer!

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Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities: 

Sandown is grateful to participate in the W̱S͸ḴEM Ivy Project!

From their website:

This project is hosted and welcomed on the forested land of the Jim family.

 

W̱S͸ḴEM is a small village within the nation of W̱SÁNEĆ. It means Place of Clay in the SENĆOŦEN language. Family, friends, allies, and volunteers are dedicated to healing one of the last remaining forests on the W̱S͸ḴEM reservation located on the lands of the Jim family. The vision to remove invasive English ivy is made possible by the many hands of amazing volunteers! We hope to increase the biodiversity for the health of the forest, creek, and ocean nearby. We do this work to decolonize the land for the bees, birds, bats, frogs, newts, and countless other non-human kin. We dream of creating an accessible harvesting site for W̱SÁNEĆ family.

Click to learn more about the project and how you can support this work!

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The Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture

1810 Glamorgan Rd.

North Saanich, BC

V8L 5S9

info@sandowncentre.com

​© 2025 Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture

The Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the SENĆOŦEN-speaking W̱S͸ḴEM (Tseycum) peoples of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation. We acknowledge their deep, ongoing relationship with this land and waters, which has sustained their communities since time immemorial.

Regenerative agriculture is deeply informed by the wisdom and practices of Indigenous food systems, which have fostered ecological balance and abundance. Colonization violently disrupted these systems, displacing Indigenous peoples from their territories and severing traditional foodways. We recognize that agriculture has been both a tool of oppression and, today, a potential pathway toward justice and reconciliation.

At Sandown, we commit to meaningful action by restoring ecosystems, honoring Indigenous knowledge, supporting food sovereignty, and fostering relationships built on respect, reciprocity, and learning. True regenerative agriculture must include the regeneration of right relationships—with the land, its original stewards, and one another.

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