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Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities

Do you need help with composting? Setting up a worm bin? Questions about your compost bin?
Don't have a compost bin and would like to make deposits nearby?

Did you know that any Starbucks will give you their coffee grounds for your compost bin? (Red wriggler worms love coffee and coffee grounds around plants can deter aphids.)

This link to the City of Vancouver site encourages onsite composting even though you can also put uncooked fruits, vegetables, coffee and tea in the yard waste bins.

http://vancouver.ca/projects/foodWaste/index.htm
Recycle your food — Don't let it go to waste!

If you currently receive the City yard trimmings collection service, you will now be able to add uncooked fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds and filters, teabags, and eggshells into your yard trimmings cart for composting.

If you already have a backyard composter, keep using it. It’s still the best way to compost since it saves on collection costs and energy use. If you are interested in obtaining a backyard compost
container, you may purchase one at the Vancouver South Transfer Station.
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I (Mary Bennett maryinvancouver@gmail.com) love to share my enthusiasm for composting - and can always arrange some starter worms for you.  If you live near 5th and Trafalgar and want a place to put your food waste, I can offer our bin as well. Just let me know what you need.


I'm thinking helping people in Kits to set up compost bins and manage them might be an easy project for us to do for each other in the 'hood.


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Greater Vancouver Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Burnaby Community & Continuing Education : Riverview campus

March 29, 2025 at 9am to June 22, 2025 at 5pm
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Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).

Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) Next depot: Thursday, June 15th

Main St. Village monthly gatherings (1st Tuesdays Little Mountain Neighbourhood House) Currently on hold due to COVID

Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd Wednesdays VV McBride Park Fieldhouse (sometimes elsewhere) Next meetup: Special date Thursday, July 29th

West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July and August 4th Thursdays - July 22nd and August 26th.

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