TLC: The Land Conservancy of BC will be hosting a series of educational workshops this spring and summer at the Eagles Estate Heritage Garden <http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca/properties/lower-mainland-region/eagles-estate-heritage-garden/> in Burnaby,  just a short drive away from Vancouver. The workshops focus on sustainable gardening and some of the topics covered will be vegetable gardening and backyard bumblebee conservation. Registration is now open for the following workshops. Register early to avoid disappointment.

*Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening*

Eagles Estate Heritage Garden <http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca/properties/lower-mainland-region/eagles-estate-heritage-garden/>, 5655 Sperling Ave, Burnaby, B.C. (view map) <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Eagles+Estate,+burnaby&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.095668,53.173828&ie=UTF8&hq=Eagles+Estate,&hnear=Burnaby,+BC,+Canada&ll=49.238841,-122.960701&spn=0.023817,0.051928&z=14>

Saturday, June 12, 10 a.m. ? 12 p.m., $30 (all proceeds to TLC)

Pre-registration required ? email lralph@conservancy.bc.ca <mailto:lralph@conservancy.bc.ca> or call 604-733-2313.

Do you know that you can grow food all year in coastal BC? Join Sharon Hanna ? instructor for Gaia College?s ?Growing Food in the City? program, creator of school gardens, and writer for GardenWise and Gardening Life to learn more about extending the growing season. Winter veggies need to be started as early as June through to early July. Find out what you can grow throughout fall and winter and explore the use of cloches and coldframes.

*Backyard Bumblebee Conservation*

Eagles Estate Heritage Garden <http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca/properties/lower-mainland-region/eagles-estate-heritage-garden/>, 5655 Sperling Ave, Burnaby, B.C. (view map) <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Eagles+Estate,+burnaby&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.095668,53.173828&ie=UTF8&hq=Eagles+Estate,&hnear=Burnaby,+BC,+Canada&ll=49.238841,-122.960701&spn=0.023817,0.051928&z=14>

Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m. ? 12 p.m., $30 (all proceeds to TLC)

Pre-registration required ? email lralph@conservancy.bc.ca <mailto:lralph@conservancy.bc.ca> or call 604-733-2313.

Urban spaces tend to be highly fractured ecologically, join Brian Campbell to learn how to make your neighbourhood more bee-friendly. Brian has a certificate in Permaculture Design, is a Certified Bee Master, and is very active in food security and conservation issues. Bumblebee biology and life cycles will be covered and you will learn some simple techniques to encourage and support these beautiful and important creatures. Help make bee corridors through our city environment so bees can continue helping us grow lots of food!

*Laura Ralph*

Head Gardener – Lower Mainland

/TLC/-The Land Conservancy of B.C.

Eagles Estate Heritage Garden

5655 Sperling Ave, Burnaby, BC, V5E 2T2

T: 604-733-2313 I F: 604-299-5054

lralph@conservancy.bc.ca <mailto:jwalker@conservancy.bc.ca> I www.conservancy.bc.ca <http://www.conservancy.bc.ca/

Greetings fellow garden lovers!

I’m writing to let you know that this year’s East Van Garden Tour is on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20th. All the gardens on the tour this year are quite close together and you should be able to walk the entire route. There are 12 gardens on the tour.

You can get your tickets ahead of time at Britannia Centre (1661 Napier Street, 604-718-5800) or at Figaro’s Garden (1896 Victoria Drive, 604-253-1696). You can also get tickets on the day of the tour at Figaro’s (cash only on the day of the tour, however).

As usual, tickets are $10 per person.

The self-guided tour runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

On the day of the tour, go to Figaro’s to pick up your map showing the locations and descriptions of the gardens on the tour.
Note that most gardens are not wheelchair- or stroller-accessible. Children must be either babes in arms or 12 years or older (or, if younger, amazingly well behaved future botanists). Pets are not allowed. Photos are only allowed with the garden owner’s permission.

We will need garden sitters! If you have time to do a three-hour shift (10:00-1:00 or 1:00-4:00) as a garden sitter in one of our beautiful gardens this year, you can take the rest of the tour for free! Please let Pat Davitt know if you’re available (604-253-1885).

If you know of any splendid East Vancouver gardens you would like to nominate for future tours, also contact Pat (604-253-1885).

Proceeds of the East Van Garden Tour go to support the work of Britannia Neighbours, which these days includes the maintenance of the Napier Square Greenway, support for the summer Napier Greenway art fair Artful Sundays (this year Sundays, noon-5:00, Aug 8-Sept 5), sponsorship of a field trip to Van Dusen for a science class at Britannia Elementary, contribution to the upcoming new Britannia Community Centre sign in the Greenway, partnership with Drive Organics to make compost for the Greenway. We thank the Green Streets program of the City of Vancouver Engineering department for its ongoing support.

Let me know if you have any questions.

See you on the tour!

Cheers,

Penny Street

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http://www.britannianeighbours.org/

http://britannianeighbours.blogspot.com/

http://eastsidegardentour.blogspot.com/

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Village Vancouver is pleased to present six neighbourhood Backyard Chickens 101 workshops with Jordan Maynard in June and July, and an encore screening of Mad City Chickens on June 18.

Learn about the proper care and keeping of small urban flocks of hens and meet neighbours who share your interest. This interactive session will help participants discover the ease of caring for small flocks and ally fears and animosity about backyard hens.
The workshops are offered on a pay as you can basis. Suggested donation is $10.

To register for the workshops: Ross @ rmoster@flash.net. Everyone is welcome, but registration is limited to 15-20 people per workshop. (We can accommodate up to 90 for Mad City Chickens.)

Cheers,

Ross Moster

Village Vancouver

www.villagevancouver.ca

June 7 Monday 7-9 pm in Hastings Sunrise/Grandview Woodland neighbourhood

June 13 Sunday 12:30-2:30 pm in Cedar Cottage neighbourhood

June 13 Sunday 3:30-5:30 pm in Grandview Woodland neighbourhood

June 19 Saturday 12:30-2:30 pm  at Langara College Part of the Langara Summer School on Building Community June 11-26 (http://www.langara.bc.ca/social-cultural/summer-school/courses.html). To register for this workshop: CRN 60904. 604-323-5322 or in person at Langara College Continuing Studies. For further information contact Leslie Kemp: lkemp@langara.bc.ca / 604-323-5981.

June 28 Monday 7-9 pm in Southlands neighbourhood

July 8 Thursday 5:30-7:30 pm  in Southlands neighbourhood

Mad City Chickens: Coming to a Backyard Near You!

Langara College, 100 West 49 Avenue, Vancouver

You can pre-register by phone: CRN 60912. 604-323-5322 or in person at Langara College Continuing Studies. (VV website members can also sign in at http://villagevancouver.ning.com/events/mad-city-chickens-coming-to-a.) Part of the Langara Summer School on Building Community.

Carolyn Herriot will be doing a talk and book signing on Thursday, June 24
at 5:00 pm at Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks (1740 West 2nd Avenue). Tickets
will be $40, this includes refreshments and a signed copy of Carolyn’s new
book, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food.

It has only taken two generations for the majority of people to forget how
to grow their own food. Most city dwellers have become alienated from the
source of what sustains them, and have little understanding of the
environmental and health impacts of processed and packaged food.

Ten years ago, in order to pacify her concerns about an increasingly
uncertain future, Carolyn Herriot decided to grow as much of her own food as
possible. Carolyn started The Garden Path, a plant nursery and display
garden, in 1990. The Garden Path closed in 2006, and Carolyn now runs Seeds
of Victoria, an organic seed company. In the process of her work with
gardening she has discovered that it only takes five years to become
self-sufficient in fruits and vegetables year round.

The Zero-Mile Diet follows a year of sustainable homegrown food production,
growing healthy organic food, eating seasonal recipes from the garden,
saving seeds for future harvests and putting food by for the winter. Growing
a “Zero-Mile Diet” is a fun way to increase regional food security while
cooling down the planet.

Carolyn Herriot is the author of the bestselling A Year on the Garden Path:
A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide. She is much in demand as a speaker and
workshop leader on organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest, with regular
columns in GardenWise and Common Ground magazines. Carolyn grows her
certified-organic seed business, Seeds of Victoria, at the Garden Path
Centre for Organic Gardening in Victoria, BC.

Thank you very much!

Nadine Sander-Green
Marketing Assistant
Harbour Publishing
1-800-667-2988
nadine@harbourpublishing.com

Via email:

Hello neighbors and friends,

We’d like to invite you to our first ever pie event.  It’s a chance to socialize, meet neighbors and share ideas about our Strathcona community.  And of course, eat yummy pie.  Tea and coffee also served.  It’s by donation and all proceeds go to the St. James Music Academy, an amazing program that provides free music education to Eastside kids.  Check it out!  www.stjamesbc.ca

Bring your sweet tooth and your creative spirit.

Hope to see you there!

Peace O’ Pie
Sunday, May 9th  1 – 4pm
@ 593 East Georgia St.
Strathcona

If you can rsvp by Friday it would be appreciated!

Shannon, Mark and the School of Chalk