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1. St. George Campus

   1. Sustainability

      1. Green Spaces

         1. Indigenous Garden | HS

            155 College Street
            Toronto, ON M5T 1P8

            HS | Building #154

            Walking north along McCaul Street, it’s easy to miss the narrow garden alongside the Public Health Sciences Building – a small sliver of green space surrounded by buildings. But the small garden is anything but insignificant.

            The garden was planted by the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health and is lush with plants such as serviceberry (used for medicinal and edible purposes), staghorn sumac (consumed as tea to treat colds), and red osier dogwood (for basketry, ceremonial pipe tobacco and constructing sweat lodges and fish traps).