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!

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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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

Come help out on the Farm! We'll be doing a variety of different farm tasks, and hang out for a snack that includes some Farm veggies and treats at 12:30pm. The event is family-friendly and the timing is flexible.

*If you're interested in coming but can't make it for the whole time, please still sign up 😊 and just add a note in the "Anything else you wanted to share?" question.

Please RSVP here: https://form-can.keela.co/garlic-harvest-work-party

Come help us harvest our garlic!
When? Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 10 - 1pm

Selling garlic at our Farmstand and at the Richmond Garlic Festival raises funds to support the work we do growing fresh vegetables to share with folks facing food insecurity and our programming that builds community and connects people to the land and sustainable agriculture. We would love your help to make this happen!

This event is family-friendly, we just ask that folks under 14 come with a supervising adult. We'll work from 10-12:30 with water and shade breaks as needed and then have snack from 12:30-1pm. This event is weather-dependent because we can't harvest garlic if the soil is too wet from rain, so please keep an eye on your email inbox for the couple of days before the event in case we make changes to the work party.

*If you're interested in coming but can't make it for the whole time, please still sign up 😊 and just add a note in the "Anything else you wanted to share?" question.

RSVP here: https://form-can.keela.co/garlic-harvest-work-party