Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
April 16, 2015 to April 22, 2015 – Vancouver Wild About Vancouver (WAV) is a free week-long outdoor education festival for students, teachers, families and community members. Try your hand at paddle boarding, learn about birds native to Vancouv… Organized by Wild About Vancouver | Type: festival, outdoor, education
April 4, 2015 at 10am to April 28, 2015 at 7:30pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House and West End Community Centre Every Tuesday and Saturday our volunteers receive food scraps from hundreds of the 45,000 residents in the West End. The take since June 2012 now totals over 50 tonnes of food scraps for composting t… Organized by West End Neighbourhood Food Network, Recycling Alternative, and Village Vancouver | Type: west end, compost, food scraps
April 22, 2015 from 5pm to 6pm – Kits, near beach Join us on Earth Day for a short potluck preceding our seed packet folding work party. Bring some food or drink to share! Organized by Ross Moster, Laura Lee Coles, and Kits Village | Type: kits, potluck
April 22, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Kits, near beach This gathering will mostly be a work party -- we'll be making seed packets. New volunteers welcome and you don't need to know anything about seed saving to help! A dozen folks showed up to help at ou… Organized by Ross Moster and VV Seed Savers | Type: kits, seeds, seed saving, seed libraries, community resilience, earth day, potluck
April 22, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden Learn tips and tricks of the trade that lead to a bountiful and healthy harvest of organic vegetables. This course will emphasize how to actively prevent pest and disease problems by providing the pr… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: gardening, organic, vegetables
April 22, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Newton Recreation Centre Soil, along with water, air and biodiversity is one of the pillars of life: without soil, we couldn’t have trees to produce the oxygen we breathe or the plants that make the foundation of all the foo… Organized by David Dalley | Type: newton
Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!
Village earns 15% on your book purchases from New Society Publishers. Details here.
Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.ca/page/volunteering-1.
Regular activities:
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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