Make an Impact
Operating in Metro Vancouver BC, we offer workshops, garden tours, customized adaptive tools, and our volunteers work one-on-one with DIGA members tending to fully accessible plots in community gardens. Our community gardens have wheelchair-accessible pathways and raised beds. Many also offer roll-under table-top gardens.
Gardening offers many quality of life benefits and social inclusion when working together in community gardens, which is why we encourage active participation, from planning their garden, tending to plants, and sharing their harvests with the support of helpful volunteers. Our knowledgeable volunteers can advise and support gardening, lend a hand tending to gardens or arrange custom garden tools for people with physical disabilities.
How to Give
DIGA is a community-based charity that relies on support from individuals and organizations in all sectors. We exist through your generous donations and deliver workshops, lectures, garden tours and planting materials to the gardens.
Stories that make our hearts (and gardens) grow
Nga,
Volunteer
Working with the DIGA helps her to fulfill her love for gardening and helping other people. From trees to gardens, Nga deeply appreciates all that nature has to offer.
Mary,
Member
“I figure I can keep on doing this as long as I have DIGA volunteers. I would like the word to get out that DIGA exists and how valuable it is. How unbelievably valuable it is.”
Maureen,
Member
The folks at DIGA, she says, have been invaluable.
“They’ve been wonderful and responsive. I couldn’t be a bigger supporter. I’m so enthusiastic and so grateful for what they offer.’
Elizabeth,
Member
“What I like about DIGA is that they provide all the equipment. I didn’t even have a garden until about a week ago, so I didn’t know what to expect. But they provide all the seeds and plants and everything.”
George,
Member
As a volunteer with The Disability Foundation for about ten years, he has built multiple raised beds for the DIGA, allowing individuals with wheelchairs to access their gardens.