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Riley Park Community Garden

50 East 30th Avenue
Vancouver, BC, V5V 2T9
7789983471
A food security project of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House

Riley Park Community Garden

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New season, new corn - September 28 Guided Work Party

October 1, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Fall is here, and corn is ready to be harvested. We learned that an ear of corn is ready when the silk filaments on top start to turn brown.

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Hello autumn! Our Sounds of Fall event was a huge success

September 29, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool
 Akhila, the super start volunteer who came last minute to Liberty Cafe the night before to help us make the soup.
 Three sisters soup 😋
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On September 21, the community garden hosted Sounds of Fall to usher in the new season.

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Keep your Brassica varieties separate! September 25 Guided Work Party

September 29, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

It’s important to grow different varieties separately, especially if you want to keep the seeds of a particular variety.

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Tomato seeds like fermentation?! September 21 Guided Work Party

September 24, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Find out about Alex’s neat trick for collecting tomato seeds to improve germination rates.

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Goodbye Selina, Riley Park Garden trailblazer and gardener extraordinaire

September 20, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool
 Emily giving a gift to Selina

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.

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 😋

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

 Lunch!

Lunch!

 Catherine and Rebecca, one of our earliest volunteers

Catherine and Rebecca, one of our earliest volunteers

 Inside a raspberry bush

Inside a raspberry bush

 Leak in the pipe

Leak in the pipe

 Flower buds of myoga poking out from under the soil

Flower buds of myoga poking out from under the soil

 Bok choy and collard green harvest

Bok choy and collard green harvest

 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.

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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.

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

Charity Registration Number: 107629925RR0001
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