Community Gardens Tour

Hosted by the Environmental Youth Alliance and the SFU Local Food Project
Saturday, July 10 2010
10am - 12pm
Meet in the Youth Garden at the corner of Raymur and Malkin (Southeast corner of Strathcona Park)
East Vancouver, BC

By donation*

Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=102210556407880164927.0004888d43f313874745e&ll=49.277367,-123.084748&spn=0.006076,0.018668&z=16

Come tour Vancouver's largest Community Gardens. Wander through extensive community orchards and learn about all the fruit and berries that grow in Vancouver; explore varying methods of annual vegetable production; learn about permaculture food forests; check out working honey bee hives, innovative building designs, greenhouse management techniques, large scale compost facilities and more! Tour will include hands on work in the Cottonwood and/or Strathcona Community Garden.  Bring a willingness to get your hands dirty. Meet in the Youth Garden at the corner of Raymur and Malkin.

Bio of Matthew Kemshaw: Matthew has worked in the field of Urban Agriculture for several years and has been mentored by some of the Pacific Northwest's most respected community gardeners. His experience includes working with dozens of schools to strengthen or create their own schoolyard food garden, growing thousands of vegetable seedlings for giveaway in low income neighborhoods of Vancouver, working with Parks Victoria to develop Food Forests on city land, maintaining several community gardens in both Victoria and Vancouver, and designing and implementing horticultural therapy programs with the elderly and people suffering from addictions and/or mental health issues. Matthew has an incredible amount of passion and vision for urban agriculture in Western Canada.

Easily transit/bike accessible:

Via East: Take the 99 B-line from Commercial/Broadway station and get off at Clark. Take the #22 MACDONALD bus and get off at Venables at Raymur

Via West: Catch the #22 KNIGHT bus and get off at Prior Street and Campbell

Schedules at: http://www.translink.ca/

Capacity: 20 participants (register early to reserve your space!)

This workshop is part of the Urban Agricultural Skills Training Workshop Series, generously supported by Vancity.

For information on our upcoming workshops, visit www.sfulocalfood.ca or join our mailing list by emailing info@sfulocalfood.ca with 'SUBSCRIBE' in the subject line.

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*What does by donation mean?  This means we're offering this workshop on a pay-as-you-can basis to make it accessible to students and folks on a budget.  Can't pay?  No worries - no one turned away due to lack of funds.  However, if you can afford to provide a donation,  please do so, as this will help offset programming costs and help us provide more workshops in the future!

Suggested donation: Students: $5-10; Staff/Faculty: $10-15

Cash and cheques made payable to the SFU Local Food Project are accepted at the event! :)