Soil for the Soul at the Learning Garden
On October 10, we will install the soil paintings on the raised planter boxes in the Riley Park Learning Garden. Kathara Indigenous Arts Collective will guide participants in a ceremony to honour place and relationship. Kathara brings ancestral land based ceremonies of indigenous Filipino inspired rituals that connect the spirits/ancestors to the Unceded Coast Salish lands, creating opportunities and experiences for those in the diaspora to learn music, agriculture dance, and rituals that bless and deepen the relations between peoples and land.
For more information visit the Arts in Action Website or send an email.
Apple Day 2
Day 2. NEW for 2026: Apple Bake-off
After we press apples to make juice, make apple cider vinegar, sample seasonal apples and have a potluck...
NEW for 2026: Apple Bake off 2pm. Bring your best version of APPLE BUTTER, A CRISP or CRUMBLE, OR A PASTRY DISH. Be sure to bring your screw-top bottles for your juice to take home.
Farmer's Market "Ask a Master Gardener" booth
Get your gardening questions answered by a local master gardener! They will be holding a booth at the Farmer’s Market on the first Saturday of every month from Mar to Oct.
LMNHS Donation Station
Volunteer to raise funds to support our Riley Park Gardens. LMNHS has a booth in the Riley Park Farmers Market. We invite shoppers to donate funds, share information on the programs we offer and at the end of the market, vendors contribute produce for our food literacy programs.
Apple Day 1
Join us to celebrate apples!
Take home fresh juice and learn how to make apple cider vinegar. Bring screw top wine bottles preferred for your juice to take home. Sample seasonal apples! Bring a potluck dish to share. This is a zero waste event.
Contact Angela Hoy, our Apple Day Ambassador for more information and to volunteer.
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
Composting Workshop at the Learning Garden
Join us for a free hour-long workshop on how to compost. Free compost bins and worms will be provided!
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
Tomato Festival
All things Tomatoes! Sample varieties we grow in our gardens. Ask the Choices Market Nutritionist your questions. Bring a tomato dish to share at the potluck. Pick up cherry tomatoes from Windset Farms to make your dish.
Email Joanne to volunteer or for more information.
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
Farmer's Market "Ask a Master Gardener" booth
Get your gardening questions answered by a local master gardener! They will be holding a booth at the Farmer’s Market on the first Saturday of every month from Mar to Oct.
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
Garden Potluck and Cedar Rose Making with Elder Leonard Tiger Williams
Join us for a garden potluck and learn cedar rose making with special guest, Elder Leonard Tiger Williams.
Connecting with Pollinators & Plants
Lori will lead participants in exercises on deepening our connection to local plants and pollinators.
Community Mural Painting
Join Marcela J Villaca in painting a community mural on our garden shed. Some snacks and drinks will be provided but potluck items are encouraged!
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
Jazz in the Garden
Come see two amazing jazz fusion acts @quarter_gnotes and @geo_cuh at the community garden! This will be the final show with keyboardist @beeker._.stef.
Soil for the Soul at the Learning Garden
On August 22, we will learn about the unique soil composition and ecological history of Vancouver’s Riley Park, enriching the ensuing artistic process through scientific inquiry.
Then, led by creative duo Alima (Soliman Ponoon and Andrea Vargas), participants will make individual soil paintings expressing their relationship to Riley Park.
Participants will also learn songs or dances connected to the earth from three different cultural traditions:
Tiddley Cove: Part of a worldwide family of ritual ceremonial dancers sharing the common features of colour, vitality, disguise, patterned choreography and processions.
Oleksiy Grynishyn: His work focuses on teaching village-rooted repertoire and folk vocal technique from Ukraine, as well as the cultural context behind ritual songs.
Kung Jaadee: Belongs to the X̱aayda (Haida), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Tlingit, Tsleil-Waututh Nations, and is also part Hawaiian. Over the past three decades, Kung Jaadee has performed at hundreds of festivals, schools and Aboriginal celebrations.
Register now!
Salve Making and Garden Potluck with Melissa
Join us for an evening garden potluck and salve making workshop with Melissa West Morrison!
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.
All experience levels are welcome.
