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January 9, 2011 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm – Strathcona Community Centre This course will get you started in thinking about how to start a food garden, and taking the first important step of getting the beds ready for planting. A sound garden plan that takes all the key f… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop, gardening, community self reliance
December 5, 2010 from 3:15pm to 5:15pm – Strathcona Community Centre The whys and wherefores of food cycles - why we want them, how to get them. We will plan a year round calendar for food supplies, both in the larder and stored in the garden. To register: Strathcona… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, food, workshop, gardening
December 5, 2010 from 1:30pm to 3pm – Strathcona Communiy Centre It gets harder and harder to stretch a food dollar, especially when we want to keep our nutrient levels high. In this class, we’ll take a look at micro growing, gleaning, nutrient dense foods, bulk b… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, food, workshop, gardening, health, nutrition, saving money
December 5, 2010 from 1:30pm to 5:15pm – Strathcona Community Centre Village Vancouver and Strathcona Community Centre are teaming up to offer several workshops and activities focused on increasing food security and strenghtening connections around food between neighb… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop series, food, resiliency, gardening, chickens, seed saving, canning, preserving, neighbourhood village
November 28, 2010 from 1pm to 5pm – Strathcona Community Centre How will our community be affected by peak oil, climate change, and economic instability over the next five, ten, twenty years? As we live through these times of great global change, what do we want… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Learning Opportunities group and Erin Innes | Type: strathcona, post-carbon living, visioning, action, peak oil, climate change, community, collaboration
November 23, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm – Strathcona Communiy Centre Mad City Chickens (79mins) is a serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken experts and authors to a rescued land fill hen or an inexperie… Organized by Ross Moster, VVNeighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, chickens, film
November 14, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Strathcona Community Centre This course will get you started in thinking about how to start a food garden, and taking the first important step of getting the beds ready for planting. A sound garden plan that takes all the key f… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop, gardening
November 9, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm – Strathcona Community Centre Learn about Village Vancouver’s city wide Chicken Coop Co-op group, and meet neighbours with interests around chickens. Explore how you can support one another around chicken keeping (e.g. acting as… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop, discussion, chickens, collaboration, cultivating food, cultivating community series
September 19, 2010 from 11:45am to 1:15pm – Strathcona Community Centre/Mclean Park Part of the Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community series at Strathcona Community Centre and the Strathcona Fall Harvest Festival. We will go over the Top 10 food saving techniques and their pros a… Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Network and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop, preservation
September 19, 2010 from 10am to 11:30am – Strathcona Community Centre Part of the Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community series at Strathcona Community Centre and the Strathcona Fall Harvest Festival. We will cover the problems of tiny gardens and will address some c… Organized by Ross Moster (rmoster@flash.net), VV Neighbourhood Food Network and Strathcona Community Centre | Type: strathcona, workshop, gardening
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Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).
Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) Next depot: Thursday, June 15th
Main St. Village monthly gatherings (1st Tuesdays Little Mountain Neighbourhood House) Currently on hold due to COVID
Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd Wednesdays VV McBride Park Fieldhouse (sometimes elsewhere) Next meetup: Special date Thursday, July 29th
West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July and August 4th Thursdays - July 22nd and August 26th.
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