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The Riley Park Community Garden is a new kind of community garden, aiming to tackle issues of food insecurity while increasing community engagement in Vancouver, BC.

06/04/2026

Want to grow your own food but don't know where to start? Join us in the Riley Park Learning Garden for a 2 hour hands on workshop led by our fabulous gardener Diane Lawrence on starting your own edible garden. No experience necessary - yard and balcony gardeners welcome!

Our first session will focus on planting tomatoes. Participants will learn how to select a site, best growing practices, and how to sow seeds and transplant seedlings. Participants will also receive a tomato seedling 🍅🌱 and other goodies to take home!

Please bring: sun protection, water, something to take notes with, and your curiosity!

Looking forward to seeing you in the garden🌻

Register here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2S86RABPA4JM4

05/01/2026

Join our Riley Park Gardens work parties and events. Sunday, May 3 from 11-3 help us prepare the Rain Garden for planting at the Stewardship Fair (May 9th). Volunteer May 9th at the Donation Station and the activities we are hosting in our gardens. Apply for a Neighbourhood Small Grant to connect with your neighbours. Be sure to be sun-safe and know where is your nearest cooling centre- https://mailchi.mp/b0cce21ca205/upcoming_workshops-10363129

04/19/2026

Great work party last Wednesday! 🐈
Got a bed prepared for our brassicas and some weeding done in our borders. A good harvest of overwintered greens as well.

We have an opening of warm dry weather this week, so it’s perfect timing to get some of our cool weather veggies in. Trays of lettuce blends, collards, kale cabbage and komatsuna have been patiently waiting out our cold snap in the greenhouse to be planted!

Overnight temps are looking like they’ll be above 10 degrees for a few nights here, which is usually what we look for to plant crops like basil and tomatoes. Should you plant your tomatoes? Nope, absolutely not. We’re still firmly in cool weather crop time at the coast and will be for at least another few weeks so they should stay somewhere consistently warm.

✅Hot tip: add some dolomite lime to your brassica beds, they love calcium and high pH! This is also a good measure to treat and prevent club root.

04/12/2026

What a beautiful day for our first April guided work party! 🧚 🍇

So nice to see so many familiar faces in the sunshine! We made the most of the stretch of dry weather to start preparing beds for our first spring plantings, things like kale, collards, leeks and shallots that thrive in the cooler spring weather we’re still getting. It’s always hard to find days where it’s dry enough to work the soil this time of year, so you have to take your opportunities when you get them! We got to do a bit of gentle cleanup and weeding as well, being mindful of all of the creatures we share our garden with that could be overwintering in stems, leaves and soil. They are like fairies, you don’t always see them but you have to believe they are there 🧚

Another task this day was to prune the grape vine. (We forgot!). Although it’s better to do this earlier it still wasn’t too late, so I we got it a bit more under control, taking new branches down to one or two buds. Grapes grow an enormous amount each year, so it you have them trained on a small space this is important to do each year if you want to get good quality fruit, and you don’t want the vine to take over your entire house! If you haven’t pruner your grape yet, it’s still not too late, but once we get warmer days the sap starts flowing so try to do it soon! 🍇

03/28/2026

Spring Work Parties are up on our calendar! This week we harvested some amazing spring treasures, including radicchio, corn salad and purple sprouting broccoli. If you planted kale or other brassicas last year, they’re currently getting ready to flower by sending up the most delicious, sweet and tender flower spikes! These are better than broccoli and packed with vitamins and minerals, so don’t let them go to waste! If you harvest the main shoot, several more will develop that you can keep harvesting into the spring! Generally if it snaps off by hand it’s tender enough to eat, but don’t miss the first one or you’re missing out on many more!

09/29/2025

This Saturday! Apple DAY 2! 🍎✨🍎

When: Saturday, October 4th, 1-4pm
Where: Riley Park Community Garden & Riley Park Farmers Market

Learn how to make fresh apple juice, apple cider vinegar, and cider. Take home delicious apple edibles and try seasonal varieties from local farmers. We will also be in the farmers market until 2pm 🧑‍🌾

Bring your screw-top bottles, big jars, and loved ones. We hope to see you there! ⭐️

09/19/2025

Join us for APPLE DAY 2! 🍎🍏

Save the date: Saturday October 4th, 1-4pm. We are so excited to be hosting more apple fun in the Community Garden.

Don’t miss out on Terminal City Brewing’s cider-making talk! 🍺

Make sure to bring your spare, clean flip-top bottles and jars (preferably 1L, but bring what you have!) to take home freshly made apple juice and apple cider vinegar 🧃

You will also find us in Riley Park Farmers Market until 2pm! Volunteer with us at the link in bio.

08/27/2025

Save the date! 🚨🍅

Tomato Festival is around the corner. Come celebrate all things tomatoes on Saturday, September 6th, from 10-2pm in Riley Park.

We will be set up in both the Riley Park Community Garden and at the Riley Park Farmers Market, where you will find us at our Donation Station and the Tomato Tent! 🧑‍🌾

We are looking for volunteers to help us run our various family-friendly activities! Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0GktvnQGQEGX2iyelVd_HjTYk_sWxWFPoTRykEPzQdBUNTZJVU5PUU1CRFRGMzNLNDFTQ1hCQzEwQS4u

08/15/2025

You don’t want to miss this! Come celebrate all things apple and partake in all the family fun activities. Learn, play, bring home tasty treats, and support local. 🍎

Sunday August 24th | 1-4pm | Riley Park Community Garden

We are also looking for volunteers to help us run the various activities. Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0GktvnQGQEGX2iyelVd_HjTYk_sWxWFPoTRykEPzQdBUODM1UkRWRVdEQ0lKNzY1V0c4TDBCQUFLMy4u 🍏

08/12/2025

Swipe for a close up of our special guest… 🍎🐛

With Day 1 of Apple Days coming up, we would love your help running the exciting activities we have planned for this special day. Juicing, dehydrating, sampling seasonal varieties, crafts tables, photo booths, and more! Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0GktvnQGQEGX2iyelVd_HjTYk_sWxWFPoTRykEPzQdBUODM1UkRWRVdEQ0lKNzY1V0c4TDBCQUFLMy4u 🍏

Sunday August 24th | 1-4pm (set up at 12:15pm) | Riley Park Community Garden

Bring your extra apples and a flip-top bottle to take home some freshly squeezed apple juice! 🧃

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Riley Park
Vancouver, BC
V5V3P3

Website

http://www.rileyparkgarden.org/

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