History of BUGS: The Beginning - 1996

In September 1996 University of Ottawa medical student Stuart Taylor returned from a Montreal meeting of the American Community Garden Association to learn of a review by the Canadian Environmental Network's Youth Caucus. The Ottawa Youth Bioregion Initiative assessment of the local bioregion emphasised a need for more ecologically sustainable food production and protection of bio-diversity. To build upon this work, Stu and some friends from the Church of the Ascension decided to form a "home-based" not-for-profit gardening organization called Bytowne Urban Gardens (BUGs).

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