Events  & Workshops

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 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 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 us and Danielle Dagenais, bat lover and researcher, for an extraordinary night of education and fun all about bats. Bats are very important animals that are feared and misunderstood by many. Come out for a night of adventure. 

The night will start with a presentation discussing general facts about bats, bat habitat, living with bats, and ways to support local bat populations. Following the presentation, we'll take a scroll through the park and explore bat habitat. Together we'll discover the joys of watching bats as we listen (with a bat detector) to bats feeding overhead; leaving you with a new appreciation for bats and all the work they do to help our ecosystems.

Learn more and sign up.

Danielle Dagenais began her bat career in 2011, while pursuing a Master of Science assessing bat foraging activity over vineyards in the Okanagan Valley. During her studies, she volunteered for numerous bat projects, including projects being conducted in Stanley Park. Over the years, she has helped monitor bat populations in the park, as well as netted bats and led talks and walks in Stanley Park. 

Danielle is currently the Regional Coordinator for the Community Bat Programs of BC (bcbats.ca), the Outreach Coordinator for the South Coast Bat Conservation Society (scbats.org) and has her own consulting company (EcoEd). Through her company, she provides bat education to schools and youth groups and conducts bat box assessments across the region. In addition, she hosts bat building workshops in the area, often partnering with municipality staff to ensure boxes are installed, monitored, and maintained properly. Since 2017, Dagenais has had the pleasure of helping with important bat research in the Greater Vancouver area.

Learn more and sign up.

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 us and learn about the delicious and wonderful world of fermentation! Focusing on the differences between added acid pickling and fermentation (relying on the use of bacteria and yeast ) in preserving vegetables (and fruits). This workshop will cover:

• Difference between vinegar pickling and lacto-fermentation

• Optimal ingredients to use in each style

• Sanitization and storage methods

• 2 recipes

• How to use all of your pickle/ferment, including the brine

Chef Karen McAthy, is deeply experienced in the realm of food preserving, pickling and fermentation. Karen’s first food company outside of working in kitchens was Good Girl, Bad Girl Preserves, focusing on using preservation methods to add culinary creativity, and reduce food waste. Karen has been the executive chef of two plant-based restaurants in Vancouver, Graze and Zend, before launching Blue Heron Creamery, and co-founding Lumi Foods, focusing on the production of plant-based cultured vegan cheeses with unique, stand alone characteristics. Karen is also the author of award winning- The Art of Plant-based Cheesemaking (winner Gourmand World cookbook awards, 2017 1st edition, and now in 2nd edition). Karen currently works as a consultant for small scale food businesses in the realm of product, menu and business development for restaurants and food producers. Karen has a long-standing interest in reducing food waste and community based initiatives enriching the local food systems.