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SUMMARY:*Westside Food Festival - Growing Chinese Medicinal Herbs & Pl
 ants in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: Exact event address will be emailed once registratio
 n is received.\r\nIn this joint Village Vancouver, Marpole-Oakridge Ne
 ighbourhood Food Network, and Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society worksh
 op, we invite Dr. Lily Chunling Liu, a doctor well-versed in Chinese
  medicinal herbs and horticulture specialist, to present not only o
 n the renowned, long-standing benefits of Chinese herbs, but the pro
 blems arising from their complexity, as well as pointers on growing an
 d using them properly. \r\nWe will learn how to grow Chinese medicin
 al herbs through interactive learning games and exercises (seed/leaf
  identification, group activities), as well as introduce selected real
  herbs that can be properly and sustainably grown in this local clim
 ate without losing medicinal properties. Our goal of this project is t
 o introduce lesser known Chinese medicinal herbs in our local communit
 ies, and to a promote healthy, sustainable lifestyle and land steward
 ship. \r\n\r\nRSVP here: tinyurl.com/ybhzpcr5\r\n\r\n2nd annual West
 side Food Festival July 5th- August 9th, 2018  Over 100 free activitie
 s and workshops in twenty plus locations around the Westside! Register
  for individual actvities and workshops on Eventbrite. For more info: 
 Facebook or wff@villagevancouver.ca.\r\nGardening & gardening-related 
 workshops, and other gardening activities are part of Village Vancouve
 r's Building Community Food Security and Resilience Project. This proj
 ect is made possible by the BC Ministry of Agriculture's Grow Local pr
 ogram. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province
  of British Columbia through the Ministry of Agriculture.\r\nWe also a
 cknowledge that the land on which we gather is the unceded territories
  of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Xwméth
 kwyiem (Musqueam), Skwxwúmesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Sel̓íl̓witu
 lh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.\n\nFor more information visit http://vill
 agevancouver.org/events/growing-chinese-medicinal-herbs
DTSTART:20180729T230000Z
DTEND:20180730T010000Z
CATEGORIES:marpole, "ctmy garden", "chinese herbs"
LOCATION:CTMY Garden Marpole (RSVP for exact location)
WEBSITE:http://tinyurl.com/ybhzpcr5
URL:http://tinyurl.com/ybhzpcr5
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER;CN="Village Vancouver":http://villagevancouver.org/profile/V
 illageVancouver
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