Upcoming Events
FULL - From Seed to Harvest: Making the most of your vegetable garden
This workshop is now FULL. Please contact us to join the waitlist.
The taste of home-grown produce is unbeatable but growing vegetables is also a great activity to reduce stress, spend more time outdoors, teach kids how our food is produced, reduce the grocery bill, and keep our food system more localized.
Join Monica, owner of Dockerty Gardens and avid vegetable gardener, for this hour-long seminar to learn how to maximize your space, time, and money in the home vegetable garden.
Topics covered: growing vegetables starts from seed, making the most of your space year-round using succession planting, fertility needs of vegetables, common pests and how to prevent them, and the best way to keep gardens weed free.
There is a $10 +GST charge for this seminar. Registration in advance is required as space is limited. Payment can be given by credit card over the phone at time of registration, or visit us to pay in person. Please note we require payment to confirm registration.
Make Wildflower Mudballs - for Kids!
Join Mollie for a fun morning of making mudballs with wildflower seeds! Kids will receive hands-on instruction for making up to 12 wildflower mudballs to take home. These mudballs can be thrown around your yard at home and will germinate in a few weeks with beautiful wildflowers!
This workshop is aimed at kids age 5 to 12. Kids must have parent or guardian with them. Kids over 12 may attend on their own.
Registration in advance is required as space is limited. This event is $10 + GST, which includes all materials and hands-on instruction. This event will take place in an outdoor area. Please Contact Us to register.
Perennial Exchange
Join us for our annual perennial exchange. Bring your divisions or cuttings of perennial plants to trade with other enthusiastic gardeners. This is a free exchange of perennial divisions we facilitate for our community.
It will take place this year at 9:30 am SHARP on Saturday, April 5th.
Intro to Food Forests + Permaculture
Join Annie for this hour-long journey into the basics of using permaculture design principles to create your very own food forest. A food forest typically contains several levels of food-bearing and flowering plants, from ground covers to vines to shrubs to trees. Learning about food forest principles provides a great start to developing a productive and edible ecosystem right in your own backyard.
There is a $10 +GST charge for this seminar. Registration in advance is required as space is limited. Payment can be given by credit card over the phone at time of registration, or visit us to pay in person. Please note we require payment to confirm registration.
Rose Pruning Demonstration
Do you have a rose in your garden you would like to prune, but have no idea where to start? Join us for a free rose pruning demonstration by Nat, our resident Red Seal Landscape Horticulturalist!
This demonstration is free of charge and no registration is required. It will take place outdoors or in an unheated greenhouse so please dress warmly!
Designing Gardens for Pollinators
During this workshop discover what all the buzz is about our pollinators! Learn about native pollinators, their importance to ecosystems and our food supply, and the issues they are facing.
Join us for a 2 hour in-depth seminar with Emony Nicholls to find out how these bees and butterflies and birds like to live and what they like to eat, as well as practical information on creating a garden in the southern Vancouver Island region that will be a pollinator paradise.
There is a $20 +GST charge for this seminar. Registration in advance is required as space is limited. Payment can be given by credit card over the phone at time of registration, or visit us to pay in person. Please note we require payment to confirm registration.