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McBridePark Field House Residency Blog/VV Newsletter

McBride Park Field House Residency Blog 2019-2024 

The Village Vancouver residency at McBride Fieldhouse was generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program which provides project space and access to parks to foster community-engaged activity that focuses on arts, culture, sports, environment, local food and social encounters. The residency has now ended.    

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Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency, regeneration & self-reliance, and social well-being in Vancouver? To connect with others in your community to create positive local responses to things like climate disruption, depletion of natural assets and economic instability and inequity? Grow more food? Learn how to fix your bike or prepare for an emergency? Get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Share a meal or swap stuff with your neighbours? Save heritage seeds? Engage in placemaking in your neighbourhood ? Participate in a more localized economy and consume less? Bioremediate your community?

Check out our Villages, Groups, Networks, and Projects -- including Neighbourhood Food Networks -- VV's centres of creativity where constructive dialogue leads to connection, collaboration, and inspired action in fun and satisfying ways!

We run on people power - join our website and/or  the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find folks on your own and "grab the reins." (We can help! - contact projects@villagevancouver.ca.)

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Best wishes for a peaceful, just, and resilient 2026 from                                             Village Vancouver!   

                                    Community Gardens

March 14-April 25th Saturday- Aberthau Community Garden

   10:00 AM - 12:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

March 14-March 28th Saturday-Kitsilano Community Garden

   1:45 PM - 3:45 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre  

                          

                                 Winter Workshops & Events

January 15, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

January 28, Wednesday: Sauerkraut
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at False Creek Community Centre

February 3, Tuesday: Introduction to Vertical Gardening
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Trout Lake Community Centre

February 6, Friday: Hot Water Bath Canning
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

February 10, Tuesday: Cardboard Frame Weaving Loom
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at False Creek Community Centre

February 11, Wednesday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

February 12, Thursday: Cardboard Frame Weaving Loom
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

February 19, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

February 21, Saturday: Introduction to Organic Gardening
 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre

February 22, Sunday: WE Garden Club (Topic TBD)
 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre

February 23, Monday: Quick Pickles
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

February 25, Wednesday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

February 27, Friday: DIY Soup in a Jar
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

March 3, Tuesday: Sauerkraut
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre

March 4, Wednesday: Planning Your Spring Garden
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

March 5, Thursday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

March 7, Saturday: Planning Your Spring Garden
 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM at Trout Lake Community Centre

March 12, Thursday: Introduction to Vertical Gardening
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

March 15, Sunday: WE Garden Club (Topic TBD)

   1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre

March 15, Sunday: Collaborative and Community Gardening Opportunities Information Session
 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM at West End Community Centre

March 17, Tuesday: Pressure Canning Workshop
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

March 18, Wednesday: Sauerkraut
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

March 19, Thursday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre

March 19, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

March 21, Saturday: Collaborative and Community Gardening Opportunities Information Session
 12:50 PM – 1:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

March 25, Wednesday: Permaculture Vancouver Meetup – 2026 Collaborative and Community Gardening Opportunities
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

March 26, Thursday: Cardboard Frame Weaving Loom
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

April 14, Tuesday: Kimchi
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

April 23, Thursday: Introduction to Organic Gardening
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

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Ongoing Activities

Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.org/page/volunteering-1.

Regular activities:

Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).

Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) 

Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd or 4th Wednesdays)

West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July 4th Thursday. 

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