Riley Park Community Garden
Riley Park V5V 3P3 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Our Response with Emergency Food Supports - https://mailchi.mp//riley-park-community-garden-join-us-th

Earlier this summer, community members gathered to celebrate food and share stories. Thank you to Sean Daly for organizing this Responsive Neighbouhood Small Grant Project. SWIPE to see pictures, get the recipes and read the stories from the events.... #rnsg #nsg #neighbourhoodsmallgrants #rileypark #rileyparkcommunitygarden #vancouver #vancouverevents #foodsecurity #community #covid_19 @lmnhvancouver @neighbourhoodsmallgrants

Holidays are around the comer and now more than ever we need your support. To know more about our program head to our website https://web2.lmnhs.bc.ca/project/holiday-season-donation/

Continuing Sundays in November. Raking and protecting the pollinators and Tool Maintenance. Email [email protected] to confirm you are coming. Limits on numbers apply.

Date: Weds. Nov 4 @ 7:00pm. Time to get updates on our various projects and to connect with each other. We will not be hosting our Season Wrap-Up Event as we have done in the past. How do you want to see the community engaged in the garden? Everyone is welcome to join the meeting and keep in touch. Meeting Time: Nov 4, 2020 07:00 PM Vancouver Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89278847344... Meeting ID: 892 7884 7344 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbd8VrMTMh

Support grows for localizing our food. Let's teach kids how to grow food, cook and share with others who need more food support.

Apply today. Meeting Up: getting together again and reconnecting virtually and in person.

Great article on the importance of localizing our food. Our community and yard gardens are part of the solution. Learn more about our Food Distribution programs and how you can help.

This week in the garden.

LMNH has stepped up. Food distribution day is Friday. Volunteer to pick up at the food bank, assemble or distribute bags. Email [email protected] Get involved in making our community healthy and resilient.

Register at [email protected] Wednesday 7pm.

In our On the Table event on Sept 28, participants were invited to reflect on these questions: How does food connect us? How do we redistribute food? What connects us to community? What do we value? Which stories can we find around us? Together, we started a weaving collage at one entrance of the garden. We also created cards by combining images and drawings. As a temporary installation, the cards and the weaving remind us of the creativity and joy we all partake in when growing food together.

What a wonderful Saturday in the Riley Park Farmers Market! We were pleased to host the Squash Extravaganza in the field house for One Love Farm! Among One Love who supplied us with several squash, generous vendors also donated swiss chard, potatoes and bread among other produce for our Arabic Family Drop-In program and Language Instruction students, early years program participants and food hampers! We also received a whopping $100+ of cash donations from shoppers, thank you all! This will all go towards stocking up for extra food hampers so that more households can enjoy Thanksgiving together.

One Love Farm will be showcasing and selling a variety of squash tomorrow at the Riley Park Farmers Market! All shapes and colours! Come by and check it out.

We will be fundraising for donations of funds and produce from vendors to support our Harvest Matchmaking Program. Come find us at the donation stations at the Riley Park Farmer's Market this Saturday from 10am-2pm to learn more about what we are doing! * The Riley Park Community Garden will be closed to visitors from 10am-2pm on Saturday due to limited capacity for a members event *

This week in the garden: Our volunteers planted 225 cloves of garlic (Red Russian, Porcelain Music & Salt Spring Select varieties). Growing garlic is one of the easiest crops there is, it needs virtually no care until harvest time in 9 months. Use only local garlic that is accustomed to our local climate. Gently break apart the individual cloves (without tearing the protective covering of each clove); plant 4 deep & 6 apart. Mulch with leaves over winter.... According to Dan Jason of Salt Spring Seeds, growing our own garlic is not only more tasty than anything you’d buy in the grocery store, it also reduces ‘the vast and unnecessary waste of non-renewable resources incurred by transporting garlic thousands of miles‘ (from Changing the Climate With the Seeds We Sow 2019) - so you’re doing your bit for climate change as well! We also dismantled the small irrigation lines and put the hoses away for the season. 9 kg of Tomatillos were harvested, some green beans, a few cucumbers, hot peppers and basil. A lovely Arabic lunch was provided by Silva to top off a wonderful afternoon in the garden. Photo is from the garlic harvest in 2018.

This coming winter could be tough as we reduce our physical contacts with people outside our household. But that doesn’t mean we have to forget about community. In fact, we’ll need community more than ever! So, think about sharing your talents & skills through a virtual event, reaching out to support neighbours, building something for your community garden, creating art in your neighbourhood or helping make Central Vancouver a greener space. Once you have an idea:... Create or log on to your NGS account at neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca Submit your application for an RNSG or GCNSG grant anytime between September 14th and October 30th, 2020. You can ask for up to $500. Our local grant committee will review your project within a few weeks. Once you receive your funding, your project should take place before March 15th, 2021. Reach us at [email protected] for more information or inspiration for ideas!

Sunday 3 sessions On The Table Garden Conversation Over Art Installation Register see events on www.rileyparkgarden.org Spend an hour in the garden viewing and participating in a collective art installation and facilitated conversation on what we value in our surroundings, what we decide to grow, preserve, and protect, and which trees, gardens, and places enrich our communities.... Riley Park Community Garden. Sun. Sep 27, 2020

THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN: The first half of this week’s events at RPCG were cancelled due to the hazardous health risks of the smoke outside. Now that’s cleared up, check out all that we’ve harvested this week! Green salsa anyone?? The espalier master Richard Hallman also gave us a virtual workshop on how we can tame our trees to growing into the shape of our liking for ease of harvesting fruit. Stay tuned for the zoom recording! ... @lmnhvancouver #rileyparkcommunitygarden #RileyPark #VancouverCommunityGarden #VancouverFoodSecurity #fruittree #urbanagriculture

What a week...! We couldn't have asked for a better start to the term (minus the wildfire closures....!). We missed our forest session due to the smoke but ma...de up for it at the beach and in the garden. From harvesting our crop and chopping veggies to rock pooling with friends, we had a blast. We learnt new skills, used our imagination to make campfires and explored new materials. It's pretty amazing what happens when you let go of the reins and let them take charge of their own learning. Nothing beats happy, smiley (and a little dirty!) faces at the end of the day. We can't wait to continue the fun with these Little Nomads! #childledlearning #nature #natureplay #outdoorpreschool #growing #imaginaryplay #newfriendships #littlenomads