Goodbye Selina, Riley Park Garden trailblazer and gardener extraordinaire

September 20, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Emily giving a gift to Selina

Selina, Art, Angela and Ed on the right! Ed started the original community garden in front of the fieldhouse.

Pollinator cake with flowers, bees and butterflies! The inside is a carrot cake with lemon curd filling 😋

Lunch!

Catherine and Rebecca, one of our earliest volunteers

Inside a raspberry bush

Leak in the pipe

Flower buds of myoga poking out from under the soil

Bok choy and collard green harvest

We had our long-anticipated gardener recognition event for Selina, one of the significant founding figures of Riley Park Garden, who will sadly be moving away.

Myoga: Your new favourite veggie - September 14 Guided Work Party

September 15, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Myoga is a plant native to Japan — its other name is Japanese ginger.

Learning how GMOs impact Canada’s food! September 11 Guided Work Party

September 12, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Did you know there are only four varieties of produce that are approved for GMOs in Canada?

Filming for a David Suzuki Foundation documentary on a breezy, cool day - Sep 7 Guided Work Party

September 8, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

We were accompanied by a cameraman from the David Suzuki Foundation who was making a documentary on pollinator gardens.

Thank you for supporting our Riley Park Farmers Market Donation Station!

September 7, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

We’re grateful for the community support and partnership with the Vancouver Farmers Market.

Where to find us

50 E 30th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5V 2T9

Riley Park Community Garden is a food security project of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (102-1193 Kingsway)

We acknowledge that the land on which we garden and gather is the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories belonging to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizon for Seniors Program

Charity Registration Number: 107629925RR0001
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