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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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Volunteer with us at our December Donation Station!

December 1, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

We’d love your help running our monthly Riley Park Farmers Market Donation Station on December 10.

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2022 wrapped! How much produce did we harvest?

November 27, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

Kathleen, our wonderful data analysis volunteer, has been carefully recording data about harvest yield throughout the year.

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Join us for the last work party of the year!

November 24, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

It’s our last work party of the season, and we would love it if you stopped by.

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Are you eating wasabi or horseradish? November 20 Guided Work Party

November 24, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool
 Most of the vegetable beds are covered warmly and protectively in a generous coat of mulch. Now they are ready for the winter!

Most of the vegetable beds are covered warmly and protectively in a generous coat of mulch. Now they are ready for the winter!

 Gardeners in cold November

Gardeners in cold November

 Nootka rose plant, a very hardy and fragrant native rose.

Nootka rose plant, a very hardy and fragrant native rose.

 Goldenrod, a native perennial plant that is great for attracting pollinators and butterflies

Goldenrod, a native perennial plant that is great for attracting pollinators and butterflies

 Wapato plant, also known as duck potato, is a native plant that grows in soil beside streams and is harvested for its bulbs, which look like potatoes

Wapato plant, also known as duck potato, is a native plant that grows in soil beside streams and is harvested for its bulbs, which look like potatoes

 Transplanting wapato plant and covering the bed with straw

Transplanting wapato plant and covering the bed with straw

 Volunteers working on reshaping the end vegetable bed

Volunteers working on reshaping the end vegetable bed

 After the reshaping! Looking much better

After the reshaping! Looking much better

 Border project

Border project

 Spreading the fall leaves

Spreading the fall leaves

 Transplanting the raspberry plants

Transplanting the raspberry plants

 Horseradish roots

Horseradish roots

 Most of the vegetable beds are covered warmly and protectively in a generous coat of mulch. Now they are ready for the winter!  Gardeners in cold November  Nootka rose plant, a very hardy and fragrant native rose.  Goldenrod, a native perennial plant that is great for attracting pollinators and butterflies  Wapato plant, also known as duck potato, is a native plant that grows in soil beside streams and is harvested for its bulbs, which look like potatoes  Transplanting wapato plant and covering the bed with straw  Volunteers working on reshaping the end vegetable bed  After the reshaping! Looking much better  Border project  Spreading the fall leaves  Transplanting the raspberry plants  Horseradish roots

The wasabi you buy in stores might have less wasabi in it than you think.

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Soaking in the fall sun - November 13 Guided Work Party

November 13, 2022 Dhira Khewsubtrakool

A beautiful sunny fall day, so we had another impromptu work party!

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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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