The Healing Haven

Artist: Hamna Irfan
Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers’ art & story project explores gardens as spaces where human creativity and nature’s creativity meet, and is being exhibited this fall at the Evergreen Brickworks. TPUF is a grassroots organization that’s been growing healthy food, community & environmental education for over 10 years.

Stepping into the garden, a world transforms in an instant. It wraps you in a haven of serenity, where joyful colors bloom, butterflies dance on the breeze, and birds glide effortlessly across the sky.

Up close, you witness nature quietly working hard, each living being tending to its own tasks with purpose. From afar, these efforts go unseen, hidden until observed.

Laughter weaves through the air as the community gathers, hands joined to craft a beautiful space filled with trust and love. In this magical area, your mind finally gets to drift off to a realm of peace and joy, a retreat from the world’s worries. As life’s daily burdens weigh heavier, such peace becomes a rare gift and should be treasured every chance you get.

As you depart this gentle safe space, a sense of peace lingers, leaving you more content and uplifted than when you first arrived. Even half an hour in the garden works wonders, nourishing both the mind and body in ways only nature can provide.