All Blog Posts Tagged 'vancouver' (5)

Does anyone know the best place to get earth for my garden? I thought the vancouver landfill would have the best priced and generally best earth but recently I was told that the landfill earth is full of nasty weed seeds. Does vancouver landfill practices of hot compost not kill them? Do food scraps get turned to earth in the time vancouver landfill holds that kind of waste? Any reviews or where I could find reviews?

Thank you for your help. I do have my own two compost bins but these…

Hello all,

I've been involved in a year-long community research project on urban farming in Vancouver, and as part of it, the Vancouver Urban Farming Society has brought together a team of stellar community surveyors from across the City of Vancouver to collect valuable survey data from people in their neighbourhood on their perceptions and experiences of urban farming.

In addition to the work of our team of community surveyors – we are also circulating the survey online to try…

Hey folks,

As part of a "Compassionate Communities" project put on by Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, a small group of people started talking about a way to visit and get to know others interested in edible gardens, chicken coops and bee hives. We came up with the idea of a "crawl" and applied for a Neighbourhood Small Grant...and got it! So now we have to organize the thing.

Here's the email we just sent out to our current mailing list (see below). I'm hoping some of you…

We've found a space to set up our tool library, at 3448 Commercial Street, and we're holding an open house to celebrate and raise some money to help support our launch. We invite you all to come down to the VTL this Saturday, April 30th, from 10am-2pm for...

• $2 pancakes 'til noon, live music all day 
• Membership signups: purchase your lifetime membership share ($20 cash or cheque) and pay your annual maintenance fee ($30 cash or…

Ola mi amiogs y amigas,

Some cool pics are below from two events that happened in the last week. Stay posted for more updates, insight and follow up.

Better BC Rally | Last Saturday April 10th marked a convergence of those who believe that we can build a Better BC at the Vancouver Art Gallery | http://www.betterbc.ca/

Civil G8/G20 Dialogue |…