What's On In The Garden: July 6 & 10th

More events coming at you this weekend! Come on down to the garden and see. We have our weekly Saturday Work Party from 10-12, then a Syrian Lunch hosted by our Syrian families from the Garden and the Neighbourhood House at 12:30. Then we have a Native Plant Walk & Exploration Workshop from 1:30-3.

ALSO! On Wednesday July 10th from 6-8pm, the garden is hosting Latino Night! Watch the Root Peruvian Folk Dancers perform, enjoy traditional Latin Spanish dishes (please bring a dish of your choice to share, AND your own plates - help make this event waste free!), groove to great music and enjoy good company.

Did you know there will be line dancing in the Plaza at Riley Park (next to the Community Garden), hosted by the Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Chinese Line Dancers every Tuesday & Friday in July and August from 9-11AM? All skill levels welcome.

So much is going on, how could you miss it?! Scroll through the posters below for more details.

Garlic Harvest!

At our Saturday Work Party last week, 300 bulbs of garlic were harvested! Everyone went home with fresh garlic, and the rest will be cured (dried), and distributed at RPCG events. Stay tuned and watch here for our garlic planting and garlic festival this fall! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped!

LMNH Line Dancers Hosted Chinese Lunch

A big, big, BIG thank you to the Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Chinese Line Dancers for hosting an amazing lunch in the garden this past weekend. The food was delicious and much appreciated after our Saturday Work Party! The Line Dancers also dance regularly in the park throughout the summer.. more info on this coming soon! Watch here.

Ukulele Circle in the Garden

On Friday, June 20, Little Mountain Neighbourhood House and Riley Park Community Garden generously sponsored this wonderful event: A Ukulele Sing-A-Long which was held in the centre of the lovely, verdant Riley Park Community Garden.

Most of the uke players were from 411 Senior centre. The other uke players were from Little Mountain and Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Houses along with a few invited guests. Overall, it was even better than we had hoped for... over 35 folks playing, singing, and sharing snacks together.

Our sincere appreciation and thanks go to Joanne McKinnon, Annie Wu and the staff at Riley Park Community Garden and Little Mountain Neighbourhood House for helping make this a wonderful way to end our term.

-Jane Belanger

Do you play ukulele? We hope to host more of these jam sessions throughout the summer, so stay tuned (pun intended).

Butterflyway Project in the Garden

The Butterflyway Project Event was a great hit in the garden this past Saturday. Many came out to learn about the different pollinators in the garden and our native butterflies, while learning how to help them thrive! Scroll through the photos to see how much fun we had in the garden and check out here for more info on the Butterflyway Project and how Riley Park Community Garden is involved.

Pollinator Week was last week, but this doesn’t mean you still can’t help out! The BIMBY (Butterflies In My Backyard) Project is a citizen scientist component of the Butterflyway Project, hosted by the David Suzuki Foundation. Volunteer Butterflyway Rangers in Vancouver, Richmond and the District of North Vancouver, will take photos of local butterflies in 2019 to help document sightings. Our goal is to help identify B.C. butterflies and enrich our knowledge of how to help butterflies find food and shelter. Click here for more details on this project.