Categories: EGP Blog, Events, Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, Volunteering
Just want to share some brief highlights from our recent seedy event. Thanks to all the folks who volunteered to make it extraordinary. Couldn’t be more pleased than to start the season thinking about gardens from an indigenous perspective: Senaqwila shared stories and experience to a captivated room. Senaqwila is the third generation in her […]
Categories: EGP Blog, Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, The Food Hub, Volunteering
As we start to gear up for the season ahead, we wanted to share some of the highlights from the 2016 season. Often I mistrust measuring success by the numbers, but these say a lot about what we did in the farms and gardens this year: in 2016 we hosted 130 workbees at Loutet Farm and in the […]
Categories: Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, The Food Hub
I can’t believe that the summer is already coming to an end and my last day with the EGP has arrived. The past eleven weeks were amazing and I have learned so much from everyone that I have gotten the chance to meet. The EGP is an astonishing organization that does so much in the […]
Categories: EGP Blog, Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, The Food Hub, Volunteering
It’s been a busy two weeks with lots of changes happening in the gardens as the summer continues! During these two weeks I’ve got to do so many things that I have never done before and I’ve learned so much. From Garlic to Winter Crops: Wednesday, we harvested all the garlic at the Bridgman sharing […]
Categories: EGP Blog, EGP Newsletter, Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, The Food Hub
My name is Emma and I am the Edible Garden Project’s summer intern! I just graduated from Carson Graham Secondary and in the fall, I will be attending SFU to study environmental resource management and sustainability. I am excited to be getting to work with the EGP this summer as I want to gain more […]
Categories: EGP Blog, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, The Food Hub
Goodbye to the Sailview Sharing Garden Every garden space has its own special quality: for the Sailview Sharing Garden, I think of protector crows that dive-bombed me one harvest morning when I was there without the volunteer crew, I think of massive cauliflowers in April when the gardens were just waking up to spring, […]
Categories: Grow a Row Share a Row, Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens, Sharing the Bounty, Volunteering
Call us crazy but we are building a new sharing garden and it’s May, our busiest month of the year. We plan to grow lots of squash and zucchini, some overwintering crops and start a seed-saving program in the new garden. And we already have two new volunteers signed up to grow there! For anyone […]
Categories: Sharing Backyards, Sharing Gardens
Grow With the Edible Garden Project 2015 Season – Join Our Waiting List We’re at capacity for the 2015 season, but if you contact us we can put you on our waiting list. We’ll be in touch in the fall! Email info@ediblegardenproject.com The Edible Garden Project (EGP) grows food in community gardens, on boulevards, in […]
Categories: EGP Blog, Sharing Backyards, Sharing the Bounty
Connecting Gardeners with Garden Space Spring is springing, and gardeners are itching to get their hands in the soil – the problem is that many north shore gardeners don’t have any soil to work in! If you’ve got garden space to share, or are looking for space, check out City Farmer’s ‘Sharing Backyards‘ website. Here […]
