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May 1, 2011 at 6:30pm to June 21, 2011 at 6:30pm – Canada Way Education Center If you are concerned about where your food comes from, what’s in it (or on it), or simply getting the best nutrition possible for your family – growing your own vegetables and fruit is the answer. In… Organized by Burnaby Continuing Education / Gaia College | Type: workshop, gardening
May 31, 2011 at 7pm to June 21, 2011 at 8:30pm – Beautiful Parks and Community Gardens around Van What do you see in the green? Identifying edible and medicinal plants around Vancouver This class is all about identifying edible and medicinal plants around Vancouver. Using some basic botany, stud… Organized by garliq | Type: herb, walk, series, workshops
June 9, 2011 at 7pm to September 15, 2011 at 7pm – KJM Country Gardens 7226 Blenheim St. Vancouver, B.C Due to high demand, we’ve added a second 8 Week Urban Beekeeping Course. This is an in-depth hands-on program to learn the basics of backyard or small-scale beekeeping. During the eight 2.5-hour sess… Organized by Brian Campbell | Type: south, dunbar
June 19, 2011 from 8:30am to 4pm – Foxglove Farm Sunday, June 19th, 2011, 8:30am – 4:00pm instructor: Brian Scullion cost: $95 + HST (lunch included) Keeping bees provides us with honey and pollen, pollination, and an intimate relationship with the… Organized by Foxglove Farm | Type: workshop
June 19, 2011 from 10am to 10pm – Kits, various Celebrate! Block party organizing group. New people welcome. New block parties welcome. Organized by Kits Car Free Day organizing pod | Type: kits, food, fun, no cars
June 19, 2011 from 11am to 1pm – The World In A Garden Kale, collards, purple sprouting broccoli and more!! It's time to get a kickstart on your winter veggies, and there's no better way than to join The World In A Garden for our Winter Gardening worksho… Organized by The World In A Garden | Type: kerrisdale, workshop
June 19, 2011 from 5pm to 9pm – The Yale Hotel Hello Friends, Please join me for an afternoon of great live blues music to help raise money for the Templeton School Education Foundation's Scholarship fund. The Templeton Foundation was set up by a… Organized by Autumn Friesen | Type: fundraiser
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Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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