Jun
21
11:00 AM11:00

Hillcrest Summer Festival

The festival will have booths from a variety of food, crafts and interesting vendors and businesses, as well as community organizations.

The stage area will feature musical performances, demonstrations and interactive activities as well as a play area that will include inflatables for kids’ games, carnival-themed activities, food concessions and so much more!

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Jun
23
6:30 PM18:30

Healing Power of Wild Plants with LoriAnn Bird

Rediscover the nourishing, healing and relational power of wild plants

Join LoriAnn Bird, Métis herbalist and author of Revered Roots, for an in-person gathering on ancestral plant wisdom, exploring the nourishing, healing, and relational power of wild plants.

With LoriAnn as your guide, connect with wild, edible and medicinal plants across North America.  Dive in as we discover the insights into gathering, honoring, and reclaiming plants as food and medicine. Blending personal storytelling with deep ecological knowledge, LoriAnn invites us to remember our relationship with the land and our shared responsibility to care for it.

“LoriAnn Bird weaves connections among ancestral herbalist teachings from several lineages... This book is a powerful legacy that we need more than ever at this time of healing and reconciliation.”

—Lori Weidenhammer

LoriAnn Bird is an Indigenous Métis herbalist, educator, and community builder. She has collaborated with the David Suzuki Foundation, Village Vancouver, and other organizations to cultivate wild and native gardens and teach about our more-than-human kin. Through workshops and mentorship, she shares plant wisdom to inspire reconnection, respect, and reciprocity with the natural world.  Her book Revered Roots Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants is a culmination of these teachings—an invitation to rediscover our deep relationship with the living Earth.

Event registration will be available soon!

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Jun
27
5:00 PM17:00

Symbiosis Supper

Symbiosis Supper is a seasonally inspired inclusive and accessible farm-to-table dinner hosted within the sanctuary of a community garden intended to gather community, cultivate intergenerational connection and feast in regenerative conversation. A vision alchemized by three women working in the realm of holistic health, food systems and community mobilizing; this dinner brings together an evening of storytelling, facilitated connection, and heart-centred education.

More information about registration and fees will be posted soon.

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Jun
30
4:00 PM16:00

Making Vitamin C Gummies with LoriAnn Bird

How to prepare your own healthy Vitamin C gummies

Join LoriAnn Bird as she shares from her book, Revered Roots Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants, how to make your own Vitamin C Gummies for strength and vigor. This workshop is a fun and palatable way for children and adults to increase their daily intake of Vitamin C and other goodness.  We will learn how to make simple syrups with plants for LoriAnn to demonstrate and suggest various ingredients that we can add to a gelatin base. Along with fruit juices and powdered local ingredients. Participants will take home a small sample and knowledge of how to prepare your own.

LoriAnn Bird is an Indigenous Métis herbalist, educator, and community builder. She has collaborated with the David Suzuki Foundation, Village Vancouver, and other organizations to cultivate wild and native gardens and teach about our more-than-human kin. Through workshops and mentorship, she shares plant wisdom to inspire reconnection, respect, and reciprocity with the natural world.  Her book Revered Roots Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants is a culmination of these teachings—an invitation to rediscover our deep relationship with the living Earth.

Event registration will be available soon!

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Jul
2
1:00 PM13:00

Pollinator and Host Plants workshop

Join Garden Educator, Alex Kaiser, for an exploration of pollinator gardening and host plants.

What do you need in your garden to truly support pollinators? How do you maintain it? There’s a sea of information online, but a lot of it isn’t specific to our region, so where to start? Learn about the top plants you can add to your garden this year, keystone species and how to rewild our urban spaces without having the neighbours report you!

Alex Kaiser is the Coordinator for Riley Park Community Garden and Master Gardener at Southlands Heritage Farm. His work focuses on education surrounding ecosystem friendly food production (agroecology), gardening as an art form and getting people excited about plants.

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Jul
5
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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Aug
2
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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Apple Day 1
Aug
24
1:00 PM13:00

Apple Day 1

Join us for two days of apple fun at Riley Park Community Garden! Bring an apple potluck dish using apples provided by Vancouver Fruit Tree Project.

Day 1: We will be pressing and preserving apples. Bring your extra apples and bottles and take home a bottle of freshly squeezed apple juice!

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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. 

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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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Apple Day 2
Oct
5
1:00 PM13:00

Apple Day 2

Join us for two days of apple fun at Riley Park Community Garden! Bring an apple potluck dish using apples provided by Vancouver Fruit Tree Project.

Day 2: Join us as we learn how to make apple cider together!

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Nov
1
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. 

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Jun
7
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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May
3
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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Jane's Walk
May
2
5:00 PM17:00

Jane's Walk

Join Joanne on a Jane’s Walk as she takes us to learn more about the Food Hub at LMNHS. We visit our Yard Gardens with Breagha, walk to the Learning Garden in Riley Park with Art and visit the Riley Park Community Garden with Alex.

Jane's Walk – Jane's Walk is a festival of free, community-led walking conversations.

MEETING PLACE:  116 E 38th Avenue, Vancouver

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Apr
5
10:00 AM10:00

Farmer's Market Donation Station

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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Mar
1
10:00 AM10:00

Farmer's Market Donation Station

Join us at the Riley Park Farmers Market. There are two shifts: 9:30 am -12 noon or 12 noon -2:30 pm.  Email Joanne to volunteer.
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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