Events  & Workshops

Weave your own basket from invasive English ivy! Learn, connect, enjoy refreshments, and leave with your own beautiful handmade creation.

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Date and Time

September 13, 2025, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Workshop Overview

Discover the art of crafting baskets from invasive English ivy in a small-group setting. We’ll gather in our serene Healing Garden for this hands-on workshop, where you’ll learn all the steps of collecting, preparing, and weaving ivy. Enjoy refreshments and a space to connect with fellow participants, and leave with a new skill and your very own ivy creation. No experience is necessary, and all materials are provided.

About Grace

Grace Nombrado holds a B.A. in English and B.Ed (Elementary Teacher Certification) from Simon Fraser University. She serves as Communications Coordinator for the Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver and Executive Director of Free the Fern Stewardship Society in South Vancouver. Since 2022, she has been teaching ivy weaving workshops across the Lower Mainland, including at the Harmony Arts Festival, VanDusen Gardens, Champlain Heights Community Centre, Killarney Community Centre, and in the beautiful forested trails in South Vancouver. She loves connecting the community to nature through art!

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Please note: We are a small non-profit and as such cannot provide refunds for tickets. If you can no longer make it we would be happy for you to transfer them to a friend!

We’re excited to be welcoming Chefs Devon and Lucas back for another Long Table Dinner on September 14th. With roots in Vancouver’s acclaimed Acorn and their newly opened restaurant, Nero Tondo, they’re known for their bright, punchy flavours and fearless inventiveness. Their food is hyper-local, seasonal, and ingredient-forward. 

Their long table dinner will be vibrant and dynamic —ideal for adventurous diners who want to experience an elevated and fun approach to local cuisine. The five-course meal will be entirely vegetarian, showcasing the peak of the season’s harvest. Guests are invited to arrive at 5:00 PM for an (optional) tour of the Farm, and dinner will start at 6:00 PM.

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ABOUT DEVON AND LUCAS

Chefs Lucas Johnston and Devon Latté met at the Acorn restaurant in 2018, instantly diving in to and falling in love with the local concept. They ran the restaurant together for five years and along with the best staff in Vancouver, collected a Michelin recommendation along with countless other accolades. They’ve been cooking together ever since and don’t plan on stopping!

Their food is ingredient-forward, relying on strict hyper-locality and seasonal organic vegetables to drive their menus along with sustainably sourced seafood. You’ll also find many wild Pacific Northwest ingredients foraged and preserved by the two chefs throughout the year. Expect unique, punchy and fun flavours! The duo opened Nero Tondo Restaurant in February 2025, displaying an elevated yet fun approach on local cuisine.

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We’re trying something new at the Farm and you’re invited!

Thanks to support from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, we’re hosting a series of three free dinners in our Healing Garden. The evening will include appies and dinner cooked with vegetables from the Farm as well as a guided “café-style” conversation about the intersection of food security, sustainable agriculture, and community-driven solutions.

We’re so excited to have the opportunity to hold space for folks to come together from across all parts of our work to connect and build our collective wisdom and we hope you'll join us!

The spots are filling up quickly, so if you're interested, don't wait to claim your spot! Sign up here: https://form-can.keela.co/pics-event-series

Join Musqueam artist Rita Kompst for a hands-on cedar weaving workshop at the Sharing Farm. Participants will learn traditional Coast Salish weaving techniques and create their own cedar heart, while reflecting on personal connections to land, culture, and reconciliation and enjoying light snacks and tea.

Date and Time

October 18, 2025, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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About Rita

Rita was born and raised in Musqueam. Her late father, Joe Becker, a former Musqueam Chief, was a carver and fisherman. Following his passing, Rita turned to cedar weaving as part of her cultural teachings and healing journey. Encouraged by her mentor, Haida weaver Todd Devries, she now teaches full-time alongside her daughter Zoe, sharing cedar weaving, wool weaving, and natural dyeing.

This workshop is open to all. $15 covers your cedar kit, with the remainder of your ticket supporting the artist’s fees and the Sharing Farm’s ongoing projects in partnership with Musqueam, including bi-weekly produce for Musqueam’s free farmers market and hosting of daycare, day camp, and Elder groups for land-based activities.

Indigenous participants are invited to join free of charge; reach out to jenna@sharingfarm.ca to secure your spot.

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Join us for a celebration of sustainable agriculture and local garlic!

For over a decade the Richmond Garlic Fest has been supporting the Sharing Farm's work of cultivating nutritious, sustainably-grown produce for community members facing food insecurity.

The festival attracts approximately 5000 people from throughout the Lower Mainland. Highlights for festival goers include live birds-of-prey flying demonstrations, a celebrated children's area, a diverse farmer's market, food trucks with garlic specials, and live entertainment.

The Richmond Garlic Fest is by donation, with a suggested minimum donation of $5 per person. All donations go directly to the Sharing Farm to support our work.

Learn more here. 

We’re thrilled to welcome Chef Andrea Carlson of Burdock & Co. to our first long table dinner of the season, on July 29th. A trailblazer in sustainable fine dining, Carlson is the first female chef-owner in Canada to have earned a Michelin star. With a background in organic agriculture and a career shaped by pioneering farm-to-table kitchens, her work is deeply grounded in food security, seasonality, and care for the land.

Her long table dinner will be an elegant, thoughtful experience—inspired by the rhythms of the moon and the micro-seasons. Carlson’s culinary style—at once complex and simple, fresh and profound—offers a vivid expression of time and place. The five-course meal will be entirely vegetarian, showcasing the peak of the season’s harvest. Guests are invited to arrive at 6:00 PM for a tour of the Farm; we’ll be seated at 6:30, with the first course served at 6:45.

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ABOUT ANDREA CARLSON

Few chefs in Canada are as closely associated with local, organic and sustainable cooking as Andrea Carlson. Hailed the “High Priestess of Pacific Northwest Cuisine” by enRoute Magazine, she is the visionary behind Vancouver’s acclaimed Burdock & Co, Harvest Community Foods (a neighbourhood grocery and noodle café) and Bar Gobo (a hi-fi wine bar).

In 2022, Carlson became the first female chef-owner in Canada to earn a Michelin star, for Burdock & Co, an achievement she has maintained for three consecutive years. Her numerous honours include Foodservice and Hospitality Chef of the Year (2023) and Vancouver Magazine Chef of the Year (2020). She is the co-author (with Clea McDougall) of the award-winning cookbook, Burdock & Co: Poetic Recipes Inspired by Ocean, Land & Air.

Born and raised in British Columbia, Carlson graduated from Dubrulle Culinary Arts (now part of LaSalle College Vancouver) and later studied organic farming and landscape design. She honed her craft and developed her conscientious food-sourcing principles while working for a number of pioneering farm-to-table restaurants, including C Restaurant and Sooke Harbour House. In 2006, as Raincity Grill’s chef de cuisine, she created Canada’s first 100-mile tasting menu. She went on to become executive chef of Bishop’s, a revered fine-dining institution. When it opened in 2013, Burdock and Co was the first restaurant in Western Canada to embrace an all-natural wine list. It recently received Vancouver Magazine’s inaugural Sustainability Award.

“Food security is the driving philosophy of my life and work,” she says. “The restaurants exist because I believe in supporting local food systems and people who nurture the land instead of destroying it.”

At Burdock & Co, Carlson composes her moon-inspired tasting menus around hyper-regional botanical themes that wax and wane with the micro-seasons. The menus—Gathering Resins Under a Budding Moon (Apr/May), Flower Gazing Under the Berry Moon (June/July), etc.—change every two months and are flexibly arranged, allowing for subtle evolutions that depend on what her close-knit community of small-scale farmers, foragers, fishers and grassroots food artisans can provide at the moment. Each features a signature dish—her quintessential expression of time and place under the full moon.

Carlson’s distinctive culinary style—at once complex and simple, fresh and deep, brightly shining with intensity of flavour—reads like a love letter to the natural world. “I want to capture an ingredient’s integrity, not by transforming or overpowering it, but by expressing it in ways that manifest its fleeting essence.”

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