Help keep a good thing growing.

Learn how your donation in support of the gardens at Royal Roads University will help tackle food insecurity, act on reconciliation, establish community spaces and create biodiversity.

Now, thanks to the generous support of local philanthropist Andrew Beckerman and RRU Alum Eve Martin and spouse Paul, your donation will be matched – let’s get growing!

Help us reach 15,000 lbs. of produce annually for food insecure communities. Infrastructure is urgently needed to support the expanded Giving Garden, Polyculture Orchard, and newly established Indigenous Medicine Garden and Market Garden.

Help us complete the first phase of our planned revitalization of the treasured Japanese Gardens at RRU: the construction of a teahouse for tea ceremonies, immersive learning experiences and other community events.

Help us reimagine and restore the historic Glass House in our walled garden. As one of Canada’s oldest working greenhouses it has great potential to be a vibrant hub for teaching, learning and research at Royal Roads.

Latest stories

New Japanese Teahouse enriches cultural representation in RRU Gardens

Hand-crafted Japanese teahouse at Hatley Park unveiled where formal tea ceremonies and special gatherings can occur.

A powerful space: Indigenous Medicine Garden grows more than food

The newly planted Indigenous Medicine Garden at the Farm at RRU will serve as classroom, teacher and cultural connection.
Bridge in Japanese Garden

$250K donation supports building of Japanese Teahouse in RRU Gardens

Alum Eve Martin and her spouse Paul help bring teahouse within the 100-year old Japanese gardens to life.

A bench in the Royal Roads University gardens.

Sponsor a Garden Bench

The RRU Commemorative Bench program is a meaningful way to recognize milestones, celebrate events or honour loved ones while enhancing our gardens and grounds.

Hay’sxw’qa si’em nakwilia
[Hy-sh-kwa sea-em na-kwil-ia]

Thank you my honourable people

Royal Roads University acknowledges that the campus is located on the traditional Lands of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

With gratitude, we live, work and learn here where the past, present and future of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, faculty and staff come together.