Free Workshops And Events
Join Us For Free Public Workshops & Events!
Garden Grand Opening
Come celebrate the build and start of our garden with some refreshments and music! Free, please register.
May 30 W 10:00am-11:30am 162996Vermicomposting: Worm Bins 101
Looking for a fun way to turn your food waste into compost at your home or office? Vermicomposting (aka, worm bins) may be just the solution you’re looking for. Worm bins are an easy-to-care-for way to create some of the best compost around. We’ll teach you the basics of vermicomposting, from worm anatomy to troubleshooting worm bin problems, and show you an inexpensive way to create a worm bin of your own! The workshop is free but vermicomposting bins can be purchased optionally at the preferred rate of $40 per unit.Fresh Roots
June 10 Su 3:00pm-5:00pm 144263
Garden Box Assembly
We are at the point in the project where we will be assembling the planter boxes and we need a few volunteers!
Date:
Tuesday March 27
Time:
9:30am-12:30pm
Tools:
If possible, please bring battery operated drills and impact drivers.
Drill bits as well (1/8")
Work gloves/garden gloves.
Dress:
Please dress for the weather. We will be working outside. Please RSVP to sophie.noel@vancouver.ca.
From Grass to Garden: Gardening 101
Do you wish you were growing crunchy cucumbers instead of ghastly grass in your backyard?! Take this workshop to learn all about how to plan and design a garden, prepare the soil, start your own seeds and transplant into your new garden! Each participant will get to start their own seedling to take home for their future garden.Fresh Roots
May 6 Su 3:00pm-4:30pm 161897
Permaculture In Action Series
Permaculture is a lifestyle that connects us to nature through the sustainable acts of growing our own food and learning to build a garden. Every community, every school and every household needs a garden. The garden is not only a source for healthy foods, but the space becomes social capital, where communities can gather and build relationships with each other and nature – by sowing, planting, digging, sweating, singing, harvesting, eating together, and sharing stories.Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. The Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society warmly welcomes you to join us for three Sundays of permaculture
workshops. We encourage you to come for all three parts of the series to learn, laugh, skill share and find like-minded neighbours!
Series 1: Food Forest Installation
Gabriel PliskaFeb 11 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 144269
Series 2: Permaculture as Philosophy
Maria ZanchettaFeb 25 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 144273
Series 3: Gardening for Food as Sustainable Medicine + Easy to Grow Superfoods
Gabriel will take you step-by-step through the process of creating a fabulously productive and thriving edible garden to:
1) Explore many common superfoods that are easy to grow at home, and how you can harvest and use them.
2) Make your garden your first aid kit. Know which plants to include, what they are for and how to use them for natural healing.
3) Learn how to make the most of your edible garden's abundant produce. Learn how to integrate from root to shoot, and even some weeds.
Mar 11 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 144274
Making Beeswax Salves and Lip Balms - FULL!
Let us gather and build our community. In this workshop you will discover and learn how to make your own beeswax salve with infused plant medicines. Lori will share the most common plants that can be harvested here in our urban setting, how to infuse the plant material into oils and then make your own lip balms or healing salves. Please dress appropriately as we will be working with hot oils and beeswax. Preregistration is required.Lori Snyder
Mar 13 Tu 6:30pm-8:30pm 145303
Wood Burning Workshops
Welcome Cultivators! Come join us to create designs in wood for our garden boxes. Artist Pat Beaton will lead you through the steps of making a design and then burning your design into a wooden plank with special tools that will be provided.You can expect it to be an easy, fun and a very friendly social experience. This is also a chance learn more about the Cultivating Communities project and be invited to share your special knowledge, skills, ideas about building, gardening, cooking and community cultivation!
All instruction, tools and materials provided for this series of free workshops.
Free, please register.
Room 203
Oct 15 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 124872
Oct 22 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 124873
Nov 5 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 124875
Nov 19 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 124876
Nov 26 Su 3:00PM-5:00PM 124877
The Big Burn
November 14 at 10am. Will meet in the lounge area by the pool tables. We will be burning the very large 8 ft panels of the planter boxes.
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