An artists impression. The ARKit studio on the grassed area, the small scale garden next to it. People gardening, learning, engaging in the space.

Docklands has come a step closer to achieving a community garden with the establishment of a demonstration urban agriculture project in Victoria Harbour.

A project of the Future Canvas organisation, the garden is a six-month experiment playfully called “reforestation” and is the brain-child of 25-year-old environmentalist Emily Ballantyne-Brodie.

Ms Ballantyne-Brodie said Docklanders could expect to see food grown in raised beds in a small plot on Victoria Harbour in front of Dock 5.

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Photo: Vegetable garden, Dawson, Y.T., August 19th, 1905.

Album contains photographs of the Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, fruit orchards in Ontario and Quebec and vegetable gardens and miners’ houses in Dawson City, Yukon. Photographs by Horatio Needham Topley.