Through our programs, EYA youth are creating a new native plant teaching garden in Strathcona Community Garden, an inner city garden space. The garden showcases perennial native plants native to coastal British Columbia organized in four guilds: shade, edgelands, food forest, and pollinator. It will include educational signage and a bee hotel, and will be used as a teaching and learning space to increase public awareness of how native plant gardening can support native species in the city, including birds, insects, pollinators, and other wildlife.