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14 stories exploring sustainability across the city.
Across Brandon and the Westman region, farmers, students, and city officials are rethinking the relationship between land and livelihood—testing soil, restoring wetlands, and piloting municipal programs that aim to keep communities resilient and rooted.
Maya Sigurdson transformed waste into opportunity in Brandon, creating jobs, restoring habitat, and teaching climate resilience. Her RiverRoot Collective connects urban composting, regenerative farms, and Indigenous youth programs for measurable community impact.
At the Riverbank Discovery Centre, Brandon residents converged for a multi-day sustainability gathering, transforming conversation into measurable action across farms, schools, and neighbourhoods.
At a Westman gathering in Brandon, community members explored regenerative farming, river restoration and urban greening. The event highlighted practical projects, intergenerational knowledge sharing, and pathways for resilient local economies and ecosystems.
In Brandon and surrounding Westman communities, farmers, volunteers, and students are building practical, locally rooted sustainability initiatives—from riparian restoration to community composting—redefining resilience as stewardship, knowledge exchange, and quiet everyday labor.
Rowan Sinclair transformed kitchen scraps into a community economy of soil—diverting tonnes from landfill, rebuilding urban gardens, and teaching a generation to value local ecosystems and labor.
In Westman, grassroots experiments—from regenerative fields to community energy projects—reveal practical strategies and stubborn barriers. This investigation traces people transforming policy, soil, and riverbanks, and what their efforts mean for the region's future resilience.
The rush-hour ferry now smells like salt air and basil; commuters check tide charts while misting seedlings that will be transplanted into waterfront planters each Friday.
Above the noise and chaos of city streets, a quiet revolution is growing—literally. Urban rooftop gardens are transforming how we think about food, community, and sustainable city living.