08/19/2026
🌱 SEED TO TABLE: Growing Food From the Ground Up 🌱
Join us at the USAY Youth Centre August 24–27 for four days of hands-on workshops exploring growing food, supporting pollinators, and preserving the harvest!
Each day is a separate workshop, so choose the days that interest you or join us for all four! 🌿
🍅 Monday, August 24 – Garden to Jar
Get hands-on with water bath canning as we make dill pickles and fresh salsa using seasonal ingredients.
🐝 Tuesday, August 25 – Pollinators & Growing Together
Explore our rooftop garden, learn why pollinators are so important to our food system, build a bee box, create a bee watering station, and check out our hydroponic Grow Wall.
🍓 Wednesday, August 26 – Sweet Preserves
It’s all about fruit! Learn how to steam juice Saskatoons and blueberries, make homemade fruit jam, and turn our freshly extracted juice into Saskatoon blueberry jelly.
🥫 Thursday, August 27 – Pantry Preservation
Discover even more ways to grow and preserve food! We’ll harvest and dehydrate herbs, explore freeze drying, learn about pressure canning, and start sprouts you can grow at home.
📍 USAY Youth Centre
1715 36 Street SE, Calgary
⏰ 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Workshops may run until 5:00 PM depending on the day’s activities and food preservation timelines.
✨ Space is limited and registration is required for each workshop separately.
All four registration links can be found on our Linktree:
👉 https://linktr.ee/usaycalgary
Come get your hands dirty, try something new, and learn skills you can take home with you! 🌱🐝🍓🥫
