Westside Food Festival - Urban Agriculture Walking Tour (Free)

Growing Food Around The Creek: An Urban Agriculture Walking Tour led by Dr. Yael Stav from Invivo Design (vertical urban ecology). With the increasing density and cost of living in inner-city Vancouver, is there still a place for community gardens or even urban farms? Should we be looking at other models of urban agriculture such as domestic micro-farming or indoor gardening? In this walk we will visit the inspiring project of Sole Food urban farm and understand its challenges to achieve both social and environmental goals. We will stop by a few different community gardens at the Olympic Village and False Creek South, and discuss the various models of community/communal gardens and their place in the livelihood of the communities living in this area. We will end the tour at the Invivo home studio, where domestic vertical vegetation and micro farming will be discussed and demonstrated along with herbal tea.

Meet at Pacific Blvd. and Carrall St. (by the farm).

FREE

Registration required: info@villagevancouver.ca or Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/westside-food-fest-free-urban-agriculture-walking-tour-tickets-36219645936)

Westside Food Festival July 18-31

Over 40 free activities and workshops in a dozen plus locations around the Westside! Register for individual actvities and workshops on Eventbrite. For more info: https://tinyurl.com/y8lw2sbp (FB) or Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.ca/d/british-columbia--vancouver/village-vancouver/) or info@villagevancouver.ca

The Festival is organized by Village Vancouver, Marpole Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network and False Creek South Neighbourhood Food Network, with big thanks to our Funders and Community Partners!

The tour is part of Village Vancouver's Building Community Food Security and Resilience Project. This project is made possible by the BC Ministry of Agriculture's Grow Local program. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Agriculture.

Village Vancouver and Marpole Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network are members of of Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks (www.vancouverfoodnetworks.com) - check it out!

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Xwméthkwyiem (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.