Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
Community Food Resilience Program
VV is proud to deliver 7 main activity categories as a part of the CFR program.
The annual festival within our three neighbourhood food networks (Westside, Marpole Oakridge, and Fairview False Creek South) to promote fun and hands-on way to bring Vancouverites together to build social connectedness, skills, experience and knowledge essential to Community Food Resilience, while celebrating food traditions, local food systems, permaculture principles, and ecology.
The initiative to build small (6-7 litre), lightweight, easy-to-assemble DIY Planter Box Kits for small space gardening. It makes gardening and growing food, herbs, and pollinator attractants accessible to those without access to traditional outdoor garden space.
In recognition of the inaccessibility of private gardens, the gardening program enables individuals to access the social, mental, emotional, physical and other benefits of gardening in a community space. Found in 9 locations across Vancouver.
A project created under the Greenest City Grant from the City of Vancouver, it allows people to enjoy the permaculture garden sites in Kitsilano and adjoining Westside communities.
Seed Libraries and Seed Literacy
Located across Vancouver, seed libraries allow individuals to gain greater access to planting their own seeds through access to free seed packets, while seed literacy helps individuals understand how to use and promote further growth and knowledge about seeds.
As a part of further food knowledge promotion, many workshops, rooted in food and gardening, are offered to Vancouver residents through the VRAC website. These offer people the opportunity to learn more about how they can create a more sustainable world.
These networks provide the location and collaboration of Vancouver programs and allow the opportunity for VV to have a CFR program. It provides VV with the space to bring more initiatives to Vancouver’s West End and Vancouver’s Westside.
The Transition Movement
Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network in 54 countries of:
- 964 official Transition Town Initiatives in 54 countries, 42 official initiatives in Canada, including 13 in BC
- ...and over 1000 "mullers", including 50 in Canada and 13 in BC. (Click on the map.)
Want a quick peak into a bible of Transition, The Transition Companion?
Click on this image to open the book and you'll be able to read several chapters.
Get involved
Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency, regeneration & self-reliance, and social well-being in Vancouver? To connect with others in your community to create positive local responses to things like climate disruption, depletion of natural assets and economic instability and inequity? Grow more food? Learn how to fix your bike or prepare for an emergency? Get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Share a meal or swap stuff with your neighbours? Save heritage seeds? Engage in placemaking in your neighbourhood ? Participate in a more localized economy and consume less? Bioremediate your community?
Check out our Villages, Groups, Networks, and Projects -- including Neighbourhood Food Networks -- VV's centres of creativity where constructive dialogue leads to connection, collaboration, and inspired action in fun and satisfying ways!
We run on people power - join our website and/or the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find folks on your own and "grab the reins." (We can help! - contact projects@villagevancouver.org.)
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Best wishes for a peaceful, just, and resilient 2026 from Village Vancouver!
Community Gardens
July 4 – August 22, Saturdays: Kitsilano Community Garden
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
July 4 – August 22, Saturdays: Aberthau Community Garden
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
September 5 – October 31, Saturdays: Kitsilano Community Garden
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 5 – October 31, Saturdays: Aberthau Community Garden
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM at Aberthau Community Centre
We have 9 collaborative gardens and garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods (Grandview Woodland, Kits, Strathcona, W. Point Grey, and the West End). New gardeners are welcome.
For more information, contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.org.
Summer Workshops & Events
August 10, Monday: Kimchi
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
August 13, Thursday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
August 19, Wednesday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West End Community Centre
August 20, Thursday: Village Vancouver Booth at Frog Hollow Harvest Festival
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Clinton Park
August 20, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
August 20, Thursday: Water Bath Canning
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
August 23, Sunday: Emergency Preparedness Panel Discussion
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
August 27, Thursday: DIY Canning Soup in a Jar
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
Fall & Winter Workshops & Events
Find sign-up forms for the following workshops on VRAC; available SOON.
September 5, Saturday: Village Vancouver Booth at Car Free Days of Summer on Commercial Drive
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM on Commercial Drive (Grandview to 1st Ave)
September 10, Thursday: Cordage and Coiled Basket
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 13, Sunday: Village Vancouver Booth at Car Free Days of Summer on Main Street
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM on Main Street (10th Ave to 24th Ave)
September 15, Tuesday: Introduction to Seed Saving
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
September 16, Wednesday: Cardboard Frame Weaving Loom
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
September 17, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 18, Friday: Healing Skin Salve Making Workshop
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
September 23, Wednesday: Quick Pickles
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 24, Thursday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre
September 25, Friday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
September 27, Sunday: WE Garden Club
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
October 2, Friday: Wild Herbal and Mineral Vinegars
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
October 4, Sunday: Hot Water Bath Canning
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
October 6, Tuesday: DIY Canning Soup in a Jar
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 7, Wednesday: Grow Your Own Sprout and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at False Creek Community Centre
October 15, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 18, Sunday: WE Garden Club
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
October 20, Tuesday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 21, Wednesday: Permaculture Vancouver October Meetup
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
October 23, Friday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
October 26, Monday: Quick Pickles
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
October 29, Thursday: Grow Your Own Sprout and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
November 1, Sunday: Hot Water Bath Canning
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at Trout Lake Community Centre
November 3, Wednesday: Sauerkraut
6:45 PM – 8:45 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
November 4, Wednesday: Pressure Canning
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
November 12, Thursday: Introduction to Vertical Gardening
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
November 15, Sunday: WE Garden Club
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
November 16, Monday: Quick Pickles
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre
November 19, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
November 22, Sunday: Sauerkraut
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
November 23, Monday: Growing Superfoods
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
November 24, Tuesday: Planning Your Spring Garden
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
November 26, Thursday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
December 2, Wednesday: Holiday Workshop: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
December 3, Thursday: Holiday Workshop: Kimchi
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
December 4, Friday: Holiday Workshop: Introduction to Indoor Vertical Gardening
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
December 6, Sunday: West End Urban Garden Club Holiday Celebration
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
December 7, Monday: Holiday Workshop: Kimchi
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
December 8, Tuesday: Holiday Workshop: Pressure Canning
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at False Creek Community Centre
December 9, Wednesday: Holiday Workshop: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
December 11, Friday: Holiday Workshop: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West End Community Centre
December 13, Sunday: Holiday Workshop: Mason Jar Fermenting
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
December 17, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
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Ongoing Activities
Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.org/page/volunteering-1.
Regular activities:
Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have 9 collaborative gardens and garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods (Grandview Woodland, Kits, Strathcona, W. Point Grey, and the West End). New gardeners are welcome.
For more information, contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.org. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing). Sign-up on the VRAC website for gardening at the Kitsilano Community Garden and at the Aberthau Community Garden.
For opportunities to get involved at our other collaborative gardens, please contact commmunitygardening@villagevancouver.org or ross@villagevancouver.org for more information.
Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre)
Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd or 4th Wednesdays)
West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July 4th Thursday.
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