Learning Garden Work Party
This work party may be canceled in the event of severe weather
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.
Tool Maintenance Workshop
Bring your tools to get sharpened! Tips for Tool Maintenance provided by our local gardener experts. Come to the Work Parties in the Learning and Community Garden, bring your tools and stay for this hands-on workshop.
Learning Garden Work Party
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.
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
Learning Garden Work Party
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.
Learning Garden Work Party
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guided Work Party in Learning Garden
EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 10-12PM. Join us in 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. All experience levels are welcome.
Culture, Cooking (PiCNiC) and Communication
“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
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.
Food Hub Volunteer Potluck
A potluck to gather the volunteers of the food hub at Little Mountain Neighborhood House (LMNH). Bring dishes to share, enjoy some fun activities, and meet some new friends!
More details to come for this event.
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
Tomato Festival
Celebrate all things tomatoes, sample varieties, and enjoy various family-friendly activities in Riley Park! Feel free to bring a tomato potluck dish to share.
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.
