Squashes: A Harvest Celebration
Oct
26
1:00 PM13:00

Squashes: A Harvest Celebration

Join us as we celebrate Squashes, their history, diversity and importance in indigenous agriculture. Our activities include pumpkin carving, smashing the pumpkin pinata, learning about varieties of squash and sharing a meal together. Learn more about the history and traditions of squash cultivation including the Three Sisters, and how squash have travelled and been embraced by different cultures across the globe.

Sign up to volunteer and bring a squash dish using 1 of the 5 varieties from Earth Apple Organic Farm. Ask Joanne!

This is a Sustenance Festival Event

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Nov
1
10:00 AM10:00

Farmer's Market Donation Station and "Ask a Master Gardener" table

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  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us at the Riley Park Farmers Market. There are two shifts: 9:30 am -12 noon or 12 noon -2:30 pm. To volunteer, email Joanne at joannem@lmnhs.bc.ca

Our LMNHS booth promotes our activities and programs. Shoppers donate funds and vendors donate product to support our food security programs.

The "Ask a Master Gardener" table will be setup beside the LMNHS booth. Visit and ask the Vancouver Master Gardeners your gardening questions. 

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Oct
8
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

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  • Google Calendar ICS

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Apple Day 2
Oct
4
1:00 PM13:00

Apple Day 2

Join us for our second day of apple fun at Riley Park Community Garden! NEW DAY - Saturday, Oct 4th. Feel free to bring an apple potluck dish using apples provided by Vancouver Fruit Tree Project. Learn how to make cider with Terminal City Brewing, sample varieties from Seed of Life Farm, and make apple juice and apple cider vinegar to take home.

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Oct
4
10:00 AM10:00

Farmer's Market Donation Station and "Ask a Master Gardener" table

Join us at the Riley Park Farmers Market. There are two shifts: 9:30 am -12 noon or 12 noon -2:30 pm. To volunteer, email Joanne at joannem@lmnhs.bc.ca

Our LMNHS booth promotes our activities and programs. Shoppers donate funds and vendors donate product to support our food security programs.

The "Ask a Master Gardener" table will be setup beside the LMNHS booth. Visit and ask the Vancouver Master Gardeners your gardening questions. 

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Oct
1
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

  • Riley Park Community Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Sep
24
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

  • Riley Park Community Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Sep
13
12:00 PM12:00

Culture, Cooking (PiCNiC) and Communication

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“Culture, Cooking (Picnic) and Communication" is a Community Connections program in a picnic format, where newcomers will have an opportunity to gather, socialize, and share about their culture, cooking, and life in Canada.  Participants can bring a dish or some baked goods if they wish, but most of the food will be provided.

To register, email Tetiana at tetianar@lmnhs.bc.ca or call 236.862.8522

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Sep
10
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

  • Riley Park Community Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Special Learning Garden Work Party
Sep
7
10:00 AM10:00

Special Learning Garden Work Party

Join us as we prepare the berms for a winter cover crop. The planter boxes are built (thank you to Shawn, Len and the Men’s Shed) and we will add the soil to them at the Work Party! We will be moving soil, gravel, sheet mulching, and sowing cover crops. Feel free to bring wheelbarrows, lots of cardboard, and your muscles!
Sign up for the Sunday Work Party

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Sep
6
10:00 AM10:00

Farmer's Market Donation Station and "Ask a Master Gardener" table

  • Riley Park Community Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us at the Riley Park Farmers Market. There are two shifts: 9:30 am -12 noon or 12 noon -2:30 pm. To volunteer, email Joanne at joannem@lmnhs.bc.ca

Our LMNHS booth promotes our activities and programs. Shoppers donate funds and vendors donate product to support our food security programs.

The "Ask a Master Gardener" table will be setup beside the LMNHS booth. Visit and ask the Vancouver Master Gardeners your gardening questions. 

View Event →
Sep
2
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

  • Riley Park Community Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Aug
31
10:00 AM10:00

Youth Regional Gathering with Rise Up! (PHABC Program)

Rise Up!, a division of the Public Health Association of BC, is a youth-driven program that connects young people across BC with hands-on opportunities to support food systems and environmental stewardship in their communities.

The Riley Park Community Garden is hosting their regional gathering, with an hour-long garden tour by one of our Master Gardeners.

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Aug
26
10:00 AM10:00

Guided Work Party in Learning Garden

The Learning Garden centres place-based education through an Indigenous lens, for all ages and mobility needs. You will be contributing towards building a space where community members like you can co-create, connect, and garden. Activities include building planter boxes, moving soil, and preparing the space for planting.

Sign up here for the Guided Work Parties and help us build!

All experience levels are welcome.

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Apple Day 1
Aug
24
1:00 PM13:00

Apple Day 1

Join us for Day 1 of apple fun at Riley Park Community Garden! Bring an apple potluck dish using apples provided by Vancouver Fruit Tree Project. Bring your extra apples and bottles and take home a bottle of freshly squeezed apple juice!

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