>> Margaret Hantiuk
Checking through past columns, I realized that we are starting the sixth year of the Village Vibe newspaper and my Garden Gleanings column. To celebrate, here is a list of local gardening resources:
Retail Stores
Art Knapp Plantland Victoria Garden Center: 5325 Cordova Bay Road, 250-658-1013
Borden Mercantile: 3960 Borden Street, 250-479-2084 (garden tools, […]
All workshops will be held at the Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre. Photo: Mila Czemerys
Want to learn more hands-on skills for growing food, keeping bees, seed saving and canning?
Hannah Roessler
Published February 2013 Village Vibe Newspaper The Greater Victoria Compost Education Center (GVCEC) is offering their annual workshop series and it’s bigger and better than ever. We […]
A fabulous designer craft fair featuring the work of 30+ local, independent artists and makers! Join us for a great opportunity to pick up a little something vanlentiney (or not-so-valentiney) for your sweetie (and kids and other loved ones and yourself…). Snacks and drinks, to fuel your shopping, will be available onsite for purchase from Entree […]
Fernwood NRG and the Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre are excited to announce that we are partnering to bring Seattle’s Food Forester Jenny Pell to town. She will be providing two great learning opportunities for anyone interested in sustainability, food security, urban planning, and permaculture…
Presentation – Food Forests in the City: Lessons from North America’s […]
An appetite for local, healthy, sustainable food is bringing two new City of Victoria urban food production pilot projects to life this fall. The City is partnering with two neighbourhoods on the Community Orchard Pilot Program and a community centre-based Kitchen Garden Pilot. Both will demonstrate new ways of growing food in the City of […]
Now it’s time for some action!
Fernwood NRG has invited food journalist Don Genova to present on The New Urban Food Culture.
Victoria is lucky to have a very rich food culture. We have the second most restaurants per capita in North America; second only to San Fransisco! Our climate is ideal for gardening and growing food almost all year round. We […]
