Seedy Saturday Highlights: an exciting season kickoff

Mar 23, 2017 | 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...

Sharing some season highlights

Feb 1, 2017 | 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...

Goodbye from Emma

Sep 14, 2016 | 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...

An Update from Emma!

Jul 12, 2016 | 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...

Introducing Emma!

Jun 27, 2016 | 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...

sailview–oh glorious sailview garden

Nov 27, 2015 | 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...