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June 6, 2015 to June 7, 2015 – WE Community Centre, Cottonwood Community Garden, North Burnaby Neighbourhood House, Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, Mt. Pleasant VPL, Billy Bishop Legion Hall, and other locations Join us anytime between 10am and 9pm on Saturday or Sunday at one or more of our 100 in 1 Day Interventions! Gardening, Potlucks, Permaculture, Seed Libraries and Seed Saving, Food Scraps Drop Spot,… Organized by Ross Moster & VV Neighbourhood Food Networks, John McCone, Village Burnaby & North Burnaby Neighbourhood House; WENFN & Recycling Alternative, Mt Pleasant VPL, Marpole-Oakridge NFN, VV Seed Savers, Kits Village, Laura Lee Coles, Jill Ineson, Hendrik Beune | Type: burnaby, kits, kits pt., marpole-oakridge, mt. pleasant, strathcona/dtes, gardening, seed library, seed saving, permaculture, potluck, marpole community day, 100 in 1 day
June 4, 2015 at 10am to June 25, 2015 at 12:30pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden **NOTE: This class runs every Thursday for four weeks. Capture the summer season using watercolour, with VanDusen’s summer flowers and foliage as inspiration. We will explore a variety of techniques… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: watercolour, painting, garden
June 6, 2015 all day – Vancouver Village Vancouver is pleased to be a Community Partner for 100 in 1 Day Vancouver.Small actions. Big CHANGE. What if hundreds of people united, each taking one small action to improve their city, all… Organized by Presented by Evergreen | Type: vancouver, urban interventions
June 6, 2015 at 10am to June 27, 2015 at 12pm – West End Community Centre Every 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 to be recycle… Organized by West End Neighbourhood Food Network, Recycling Alternative, and Village Vancouver | Type: west end, compost, food scraps
June 6, 2015 from 10am to 3:30pm – Outside North Burnaby Neighborhood House On 100 in 1 day we'll be manning a stall outside North Burnaby neighborhood house 10:30a.m. - 3:30p.m., giving out free seeds as well as tips for successful organic garden while informing people abou… Organized by John Frederick George McCone | Type: north, burnaby, outside, stall, free, seeds, information
June 6, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VV Permaculture plot at Cottonwood Community Garden Join us for our weekly work parties (mostly on weekends) at our permaculture, DTES Neighbourhood House, Inner City Village, and herb spiral plots at Cottonwood Community Garden. It's fun, it's educat… Organized by Ross Moster, Jill Ineson, and Village Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: strathcona, permaculture, gardening, potluck, learning opportunity, cottonwood community garden
June 6, 2015 from 11am to 3pm – Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre (Oak park) Please join us at this family friendly neighbourhood festival on 100 in 1 Day. We'll have a seed library there, and will be doing our other usual tabling activities - telling folks about Village proj… Organized by Ross Moster, VV, Marpole-Oakridge NFN, and you? | Type: marpole, oakridge, 100 in 1 day, intervention, marpole neighbourhood food network
June 6, 2015 from 1pm to 3pm – Mt. Pleasant Branch Vancouver Public Library Please join Mt. Pleasant Branch Library and Village Vancouver for the opening of a Seed Sharing Library. You can get some seeds for you garden and learn how the Seed Library works. Organized by Ross Moster, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks and Mt. Pleasant Branch VPL | Type: mt. pleasant, 100 in 1 day, intervention, seeds, seed library, mt. pleasant branch vpl
June 6, 2015 from 1pm to 3pm – start at the Carnegie reading room at 1pm, at Hastings Urban Farm by 1.45pm Led by Sarah Common and Sharon Kallis. Pollinator Zone Markers are hanging in areas identified as supportive of pollinators through plantings or nearby managed hives. Markers are made with locally gr… Organized by Sharon Kallis | Type: downtown, eastside
June 6, 2015 from 3:30pm to 6:30pm – Kits, near beach We've folded over 1,500 seed packets at our previous work parties, and have been busy filling them with seeds. New volunteers welcome and you don't need to know anything about seed saving to help! A… Organized by Ross Moster and VV Seed Savers | Type: kits, seeds, seed saving, seed libraries, community resilience, earth day, potluck
June 6, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Kits, near beach Join us for a potluck following our seed packet work party. Bring some food or drink to share! Organized by Ross Moster, Laura Lee Coles, and Kits Village | Type: kits, potluck
Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!
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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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