*Westside Food Festival - Fall and Winter Gardening

Want veggies this fall? Crunchy home-grown lettuce and hearty kale and other greens? Summer's the time to plant for the fall and winter, and to start thinking about planting overwintering herbs and vegetables! In this Village Vancouver workshop with Rhiannon Johnson, you'll learn how and when to plant cool-weather veggies such as kale, lettuce, parsley, coriander, spinach and swiss chard on your balcony or in your garden for a fall and winter feast!

Register: Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/westside-food-festival-fall-and-winter-gardening-tickets-47594650882

2nd annual Westside Food Festival July 5th- August 9th, 2018  Over 90 free activities and workshops in twenty plus locations around the Westside! Register for individual activities and workshops on Eventbrite (registration for most Food Fest Eventbrite activities opens on July 4). For workshops and activities at Community Centres, please register on Vancouver Recreation. For more info: Facebook or wff@villagevancouver.ca.

The Westside Food Festival is organized by Village Vancouver, Westside Neighbourhood Food Network, Marpole OakridgeNFN and Fairview False Creek South NFN. Village Vancouver is a member of Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks (www.vancouverfoodnetworks.com) - check it out!

This workshop 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.

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

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