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| Share Your Stories! The newsletter was created as a platform to share updates from the Park Board and for our Park Partners and Stewards to learn about what is happening in our parks and connect with each other.
Send an email to parkstewards@vancouver.ca with any comments, feedback, and articles to be featured in the upcoming editions of the newsletter! To share your work and events, please be aware of the following dates:
- Featured articles must be submitted by the 15th*.
- Stewardship events must be submitted by the 26th* with event details.
*of the current month to be featured in the following month.
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| Do you have an idea for an art, greening or garden improvement project in a park, community centre, or on other public lands? Are you interested in building community with your neighbours? Learn more about the Neighbourhood Matching Fund at our upcoming information session. Date: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 Time: 4:00-6:00pm Location: Britannia Community Centre (Rink Activity Room) 1661 Parker St, Vancouver, BC Questions? Email
nmf@vancouver.caCall 604.257.8106 For more information visit our
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| Join the Stanley Park Ecology Society for a workshop for event organizers and program coordinators to explore how we can develop engaging bird education programs that attract a diverse audience and supports the growth of Greater Vancouver Bird Week.
The workshop will include:
- An idea sharing session on programming that attracts diverse audiences
- Guidance around Bird Week marketing and how Stanley Park Ecology Society can support you in promoting and evaluating impact
- Networking and sharing possible subject matter experts to bring your programs to life
A light dinner is provided and the workshop is free for Bird Week collaborators with registration.
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| Disabled Independent Gardeners Association operates in Metro Vancouver BC, offers workshops, garden tours, customized adaptive tools, and their volunteers work one-on-one with DIGA members tending to fully accessible plots in community gardens. Their community gardens have wheelchair-accessible pathways and raised beds. Many also offer roll-under table-top gardens. There is no charge to become a member or to participate.
Gardening offers quality of life benefits and social inclusion when working together in community gardens, which is why DIGA encourages active participation, from planning their garden, tending to plants, and sharing their harvests with the support of helpful volunteers.
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DIGA's knowledgeable volunteers can advise and support gardening, lend a hand tending to gardens or arrange custom garden tools for people with physical disabilities. Join them at workshops and or tend a plot at one of the Community Gardens listed below.
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Garden and Plot Availabilities: Pandora Community Garden: 2325 Franklin St, Vancouver, BC V5L 1S2 Cambie Community Garden: 500 W 54th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6P 1L9 Kerrisdale Community Garden: Arbutus greenway and W 60th Ave Adanac Community Garden: 1025 Boundary Rd, Vancouver, BC V5K 4T2 Stillcreek Community Garden: 2750 E 29th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R 1V5 If you're interested in a plot, volunteering, or want more information, contact
spasco@digabc.org and/or visit their
website.
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Volunteering in our parks? Remember to Make It Count! Use the forms below to track and record the growth of your events and community involvement. If you host numerous events a month, please contact us at parkstewards@vancouver.ca to receive the Stewardship Tracker spreadsheet.
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Park Partners Use the link below to keep track all of your stewardship, education, and research events!
| Park Stewards Use the link below to record your hours of involvement and activity in our parks!
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Everett Crowley Park Stewardship Where Everett Crowley Park, Kerr Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Get dirty, have fun and help the environment!
Join us for monthly stewardship events to help remove invasive plants, plant tree/shrubs and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided.
Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Registration: https://ca.apm.activecommunities.com/vancouver/Activity_Search/everett-crowley-park-stewardship/235756
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2020
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: Meet at the entrance of Everett Crowley Parking Lot (8200 Kerr St)
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EcoStewards Where Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Natural habitats in Stanley Park are being impacted by invasive species. Join us in the Park this week to enhance Vancouver’s largest urban forest by removing invasive species such as English ivy, Himalayan blackberry, and yellow flag iris! By participating in this program, you will learn firsthand about the threat invasive species pose to our native ecosystems, make an important contribution to conservation and restoration in Stanley Park, and work with a great group of like minded volunteers in a beautiful outdoor setting.
A reminder email with detailed information about the day’s activity will be sent to registered volunteers a few days before the event. Volunteers should arrive dressed for the weather with sturdy shoes, and be prepared to work on uneven terrain.
Registration:
http://stanleyparkecology.ca/event/ecostewards-10-a-m-1-p-m-3/2020-02-08/
Date: Saturday, Feburary 8th, 2020
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Stanley Park | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Jericho Stewardship Where Meet at the bridge between the duck ponds (W 4th Avenue and NW Marine Drive, Vancouver) Description Join Jericho Stewardship Group's monthly stewardship event! Help make sure that Jericho Beach Park remains a healthy ecosystem for Vancouver!
• What we'll do
We will be removing overgrown invasive plant from the growing native plants in our parks.
• What to bring
Please bring sturdy shoes, and water. Tools and snacks will be provided.
• Important to know
The weather will be cool so dress for the weather!
Date: Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Jericho Park (meet at the bridge between the duck ponds) | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Salmon Dreams: a journey through memory in the landscape Where Riley Park Community Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Our 3rd Annual "Connecting to Place' gathering. With Celia Brauer, co-founder and staff of the False Creek Watershed Society and Amy Kiara Ruth, a somatic movement educator. Join us for this special workshop and stay for snacks and beverages.
Our exploration will nurture a connection with the visible and hidden waterways in the Riley Park/Little Mountain Neighbourhood. The guides are Celia Brauer, co-founder and staff of the False Creek Watershed Society and Amy Kiara Ruth, a somatic movement educator.
We will continue afterwards with a gathering filled with community connection, scrumptious snacks and hot beverages!
Artwork: 'Salmon and Buildings 2' by Celia Brauer
Date: Saturday, February 15th, 2020
Time: 1:00-3:00PM
Location: Riley Park Community Garden (50 E 30th Ave, Vancouver, BC) | | Add To Calendar | | |
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EcoStewards Where Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Natural habitats in Stanley Park are being impacted by invasive species. Join us in the Park this week to enhance Vancouver’s largest urban forest by removing invasive species such as English ivy, Himalayan blackberry, and yellow flag iris! By participating in this program, you will learn firsthand about the threat invasive species pose to our native ecosystems, make an important contribution to conservation and restoration in Stanley Park, and work with a great group of like minded volunteers in a beautiful outdoor setting.
A reminder email with detailed information about the day’s activity will be sent to registered volunteers a few days before the event. Volunteers should arrive dressed for the weather with sturdy shoes, and be prepared to work on uneven terrain.
Registration:
https://stanleyparkecology.ca/event/ecostewards-10-a-m-1-p-m-3/2020-02-22/
Date: Saturday, Feburary 22nd, 2020
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Stanley Park | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Indigenous Plant Use Where Stanley Park Dining Pavilion Description Discover Spapayeq (Stanley Park)—the traditional, and unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish Nation, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nation people.
Walk through the forest and bathe in Coast Salish knowledge of cedar and hemlock, learning through storytelling. Continue the walk down to Xwáýxway (Lumberman‘s Arch) beach at low tide and explore the incredibly diverse and abundant kelp forests available in the intertidal zone. The exploration continues along the seawall up to Axachu7 (Beaver Lake) as you learn about the edible, medicinal, and survival uses of plants as well as the traditional and present-day Indigenous relationships with local flora and fauna.
While there will be no plant collection on these educational walks, Spapayeq offers a perfect setting to learn about sustainable harvesting.
Join us on this informative program to learn about
local ecology from a West Coast Salish First Nations cultural perspective.
NOTE: We will meet at the Stanley Park Ecology Society, located on the 2nd floor of the Stanley Park Dining Pavilion (#19 Bus Loop nearby).
Registration: https://stanleyparkecology.ca/event/indigenous-plant-use-69/
Pre-register: $22 members / $28 non-members
Drop in: $25 members / $30 non-members
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020
Time: starts at 1PM
Location: Stanley Park Dining Pavilion | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Birds of a Feather: February Flyers Where Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Stanley Park‘s resident birds have been persevering through the winter while others, like many of the ducks, begin to prepare for their annual northern migration.
Join us for a two-hour, easy walking exploration to learn about migratory bird identification and behaviour.
We gratefully acknowledge that the land on which we gather and work is the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation. For thousands of years, Coast Salish people have walked this land and walked with it in a good way, harvesting foods and medicines and made good ceremony here. The abundance that these lands and waters provide us to live, work and play is due to the reciprocal relationships by which Coast Salish people lived
and live today.
Registration: https://stanleyparkecology.ca/event/birds-of-a-feather-february-flyers/
Cost: By donation
Date: Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Time: 9:00-11:00am
Location: Stanley Park | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Still Creek Streamkeepers Meeting and Green Infrastructure Talk with Kacia Tolsma Where 2750 East 29th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Interested in the Health of Still Creek and the Renfrew Ravine? Join the Still Creek Streamkeepers for our monthly public meeting. Everyone is welcome! The Still Creek Streamkeepers are a group of neighbours and citizen scientists who help take care of Still Creek and Renfrew Ravine, with the support of Still Moon Arts Society. We monitor the health of Still Creek and run activities that help improve water quality and ecosystems. This includes water quality testing, garbage removal, invertebrate sampling, and removing invasive species and replanting with native plants.
Every meeting is followed by an educational talks hosted by the Still Creek Streamkeepers. We invite speakers who are doing work related to streams, wildlife, stewardship, water quality, salmon and more to give presentations. Join us for the talk, the meeting or both! We will be announcing
the speakers for upcoming months periodically, stay tuned on the Still Creek Streamkeepers page or get on our email list by getting in touch with us streamkeepers@stillmoonarts.ca.
This month's talk looks at different examples of Green Infrastructure and its implementations in different cities with SFU Resource and Environmental Management Masters Student Kacia Tolsma. Green infrastructure is an approach to water management which restores or mimics natural systems through restored ecosystems and built structures such as green roofs, bioswales, rain gardens, and rehabilitated wetlands. This talk will consider bioswales in-depth, as Still Moon Arts is planning to lead the construction of a bioswale in 2021.
Date: Monday, February 24th, 2020
Time: 7:00-8:15pm (Talk w/ Kacia Tolsma) and 8:15-9:00pm (Streamkeepers meeting)
Location: Slocan Hall (2750 E 29th
Ave)
Register for the talk here: https://stillmoonarts.ca/green-infrastructure-with-kacia-tolsma/ | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Workshop: Beyond the Bird Walk Where Stanley Park Pavilion, Pipeline Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Join us for a workshop for event organizers and program coordinators to explore how we can develop engaging bird education programs that attract a diverse audience and supports the growth of Greater Vancouver Bird Week.
The workshop will include:
- An idea sharing session on programming that attracts diverse audiences
- Guidance around Bird Week marketing and how Stanley Park Ecology Society can support you in promoting and evaluating impact
- Networking and sharing possible subject matter experts to bring your programs to life
*Light dinner provided
*Free for Bird Week collaborators with registration
Space is limited!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/workshop-beyond-the-bird-walk-tickets-91931249843?aff=VPB
Email outreach@stanleyparkecology.ca for further questions.
Date: Wednesday, February 26th,
2020
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Stanley Park Pavilion (Salmonberry Room)
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Neighbourhood Matching Fund Public Info Session Where 1661 Parker Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Do you have an idea for an art, greening or garden improvement project in a park, community centre, or on other public lands?
Are you interested in building community with your neighbours?
Learn more about the Neighbourhood Matching Fund.
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Britannia Community Centre (Rink Activity Room, 1661 Parker St)
Questions?
Email: nmf@vancouver.ca
Call: 604.257.8106
For more info visit: bit.ly/ParkBoardNMF | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Seedy Saturday Where VanDusen Botanical Garden, Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description It‘s time to start dreaming about Spring and seeds for your garden.
Check out our own Seedy Saturday to purchase seeds from BC organic growers! Lots to do - buy some seeds & plants from local vendors, talk to the growers, and enjoy a few lectures.
Hosted by Vancouver Master Gardeners
Admission by Donation – Part Door Proceeds to VBGA Education Programs
For more information: http://vandusengarden.org/events/seedy-saturday-2020/
Date: Saturday, February 29th, 2020
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm
Location: VanDusen Botanical Garden | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Workshop: Pruning with Richard Hallman Where Riley Park Community Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Join Richard, P.Ag and Espalier Master, facilitate a workshop on Pruning. Richard created our Espalier Planting Plan and has been working with us to maintain and keep developing our orchard.
Date: Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Location: Riley Park Community Garden (50 E 30th Ave, Vancouver, BC) | | Add To Calendar | | |
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