Winter Vegtable Gardening Workshop

Come by Redfern Commons for this Free workshop on planning and planting your winter vegetable garden!

About this Event

This workshop will cover all the basics you need to get your garden growing and producing year round. Learn about what varieties do best for winter growing, when to plant them, and how to maximize your winter harvest!

Accessibility:

This workshop will be held outside at the Community Garden at Redfern Park. Pathways in the park are a mix of paved, gravel and wood chips and there is some seating available. There are no washrooms on site. For additional accessibility information please reach out to River at Z2FyZGVuY29vcmRpbmF0b3IgfCBzb3V0aGp1YmlsZWUgISBjYQ==

Parking:

There is street parking available a short walk away on Bourchier St and Oak Bay Ave and a bike rack located in the park.

Instructor Bio:

River (they/them) is passionate about increasing the resilience of urban and suburban landscapes through utilising plants native to these territories, increasing food security through integrating edible perennials and fruit trees into the landscape, and helping to increase connections to land through making gardening more possible and accessible. Currently they do this work though their landscaping business Nightingale Gardens, their role as Welland Orchard Coordinator with LifeCycles Project and as the Garden Coordinator for Redfern Commons.

Their background is in agriculture, with five seasons spent working on small-scale organic farms, as well as a Landscape Horticulture Certificate (Red Seal levels 1 and 2) from the Pacific Horticulture College. They have also spent several years facilitating group learning and activities, for both kids and adults, in a variety of environments.

Their family is primarily from Ireland, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and England. They were raised on kʷikʷəƛ̓əm territories (Coquitlam BC) and have been living on W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territories for the past 10 years. Their work is grounded in intersectional queer feminism, disability justice, and decolonization. They are queer, trans, and neurodivergent, and have a deep love of commons gardens.

We are greatful for the support of the City of Victoria in hosting this workshop.

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