This month, Little Mountain Neighbourhood House is looking for volunteers to help out at a variety of events in Riley Park.
Read moreAt the Garden: a Recap of May
The month of May flew by quickly with the roller coaster of events at the Riley Park Community Garden. Here’s a run-down of what we did last month!
Read moreWe are hiring
UPDATE: Thank you for your interest! Please note that applications are now closed.
We are hiring 2 people to support the outreach and communications needs of the Food Hub (Riley Park Community Garden, Yard Garden Harvest, Food Distribution, Learning Garden) & to the broader community on heat preparedness, climate change and food security. Funded by CSJ.
Click to see the job description. Email Joanne for more information. Starts May 12 and June 30.
Our garden season opens on March 19th
Join Alex and fellow gardeners as we start our Guided Work Parties on Wednesday, March 19th. Join us on the 23rd for our first Seed Swap Sunday. It is also a potluck so be sure to bring a dish to share (if you want). Check the Event Calendar on our website as we have the Work Parties on most Wednesdays and Sundays. Click here to Sign-Up. The April schedule will be posted shortly.
Apple Day recap — September 28
We had good weather, a nice turnout, and lots of eager volunteers of all ages today.
We had an apple sample table with four varieties of seasonal apples from the Unity Farm Collective, Choices Market brought an apple dish for the potluck table as well as others from our volunteers, and the Vancouver Fruit Tree Project provided us with boxes of apples for juicing which were enthusiastically chopped up by our volunteers before shredding and juicing.
Our newly purchased apple press and shredder worked well together, operated by nearly everyone present, including some small children who worked hard at the hand cranking, with some encouragement from the adults! We probably processed about 80-100 lbs of apples, including those from two nearby gardens, the householders taking away bottles of juice.
In the end we ran out of bottles before we ran out of apples! Our dehydrator was also demonstrated by Art Bomke, another excellent way to preserve apples for winter eating.
