For the first time, the perpetually busy Sam Turp had extra time on his hands, as well as an abundance of outdoor space around his new home.

With its spire and cross intact, the Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation church in the village of Havre-Aubert on Quebec's Magdalen Islands still looks like a place of worship from the outside. But any visitor who steps inside quickly notices that the space has taken on a new, different life.

Montreal fashion designer Nadia Bunyan always thought of herself as an urban person but the pandemic sent her into her backyard, where she discovered an interest in gardening.