1.02 MGs in the Community

Check your local nursery for Master Gardener Visits. More info TBA

The Vancouver Master Gardeners are actively involved in a number of community garden projects, including:

• Alexandra Neighbourhood House Garden – Crescent Beach
• Banfield Long-Term Care Pavilion – Vancouver General Hospital
• Burnaby Nature House – Burnaby
• Capilano Care Facility Gardens –West Vancouver
• Farmers on 57th Garden Club –Vancouver
• Inglewood Lodge – West Vancouver
• Intergenerational Landed Learning Project at UBC Farm – Vancouver
• Many Small Hands Garden Project – Ladner / Delta
• Marguerite Dixon Transition House – Burnaby
• Ontario Street Bikeway Garden – Vancouver
• Paulik Gardens Neighbourhood Park – Richmond
• Pearson Long-Term Care Facility – Vancouver
• Pitt Meadows Elementary Therapeutic & Enabling Garden – Pitt Meadows
• Sir Charles Tupper Neighbourhood Greenway – Vancouver
• St. James’ Cottage Hospice – Vancouver
• Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden – Sechelt
• Terra Nova Schoolyard Society – Richmond
• Yaletown House Long Term Care Facility – Vancouver
   

In addition, the Vancouver Master Gardeners' Healing Garden Committee has projects at:

• Cedarview Lodge - North Vancouver
• DIGA (Disabled Independent Gardeners Association)
• Eagle Ridge Hospital Healing Garden
• Moberly Cultural Herb Garden – Vancouver
• St Luke's Heritage Garden – Vancouver
• Union Gospel Mission – Vancouver
• Women's Hospital (Fir Square Patio Garden) – Vancouver

MGs at Sir Charles Tupper Neighbourhood Greenway

Inglewood Lodge Friendship Garden

'Many Small Hands' Children's Garden: Salad Garden, in Ladner

Moberly Cultural Herb Garden

Displaying the beautiful veggies picked at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden, one of the biggest weekly harvests to date. We weigh and wash the veggies in the shed before taking them to the Sechelt Food Bank

The Powell River Open Air Market hosted the annual Fall Fair on September 24 & 25 2011. A 2 day community event celebrating the fall harvest Artisans sell homemade jams, crafts and perform music that invites all to dance in spite of a blustery weekend. Four Master Gardeners participated at their booth both days providing Question and Answer Clinics. Questions varied from vegetable gardening on top of an oyster farm, gardening on a shell midden, to wire worm infestation.

UBC Farm: Intergenerational Landed Learning Project

Union Gospel Mission Downtown Eastside