Growing Eden – Farmers on 57th

Love, Respect, Kindness, Generosity, Connection and Possibility

karen September 30, 2022 September 30, 2022Accessibility, Community, CSA, Garden Club, Grow Your Own Food Course, Growing Eden, Pearson Dogwood Community Gardeners, Summer Student, Urban Farming Volunteer Learning Program, Volunteer, Youth Employment

We are a settler-led and predominantly white organization farming in the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations. We want to create a safe space for all to join our community, inclusive of people who have experienced trauma and who seek land-based healing and improved food access. We want to guide our day-to-day work, organizational decisions and future by shared values. To discover our shared values as a community we proposed organizational values of Love, Respect, Kindness and Generosity. Core staff and volunteers explored these values in a March 2022 workshop by Kathi Camilleri who is trained and has…

We’re Hiring! Urban Farming Assistant & Education Program Officer

karen June 16, 2022 September 30, 2022CSA, Growing Eden, Opportunities, Youth Employment

Vancouver, BC 1 position available Name of Organization: Farmers on 57th Location: Main location at 57th @ Heather Street & Growing Eden Garden @ Bobolink Park Start Date: Flexible, ideally on or before July 5 with last possible end date of September 3, 2022 Hours offered: Tuesday to Saturday, 30 hrs/week for 6-11 weeks for a total possible 330 hours depending on start date Compensation: $15.65/ hour + vacation pay. This is a Canada Summer job posting, so the successful applicant must: be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment be a Canadian citizen,…

We’re Hiring! Canada Summer Jobs

karen May 6, 2021 May 7, 2021Get Involved, Growing Eden, Youth Employment

Hey folks, we have the pleasure and privilege to offer part-time urban farming assistant jobs again this summer, thanks to the federally-funded Canada Summer Jobs program. Candidates must be 30 years and under and meet other Canada Summer Jobs eligibility criteria. Do you enjoy working in the outdoors and want the opportunity to grow your passion for fresh grown veggies and urban farming? Do you want to develop skills working in the fields of outdoor education and communications, nurturing people’s connection to food, soil and each other? We are currently recruiting for 2 positions: Assistant Urban Farmer & Education Program…

Hiring Summer Horticulturalist

karen June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019CSA, Garden Club, Get Involved, Growing Eden, Opportunities, Summer Student

Farmers on 57th|Assistant Urban Farmer & Horticultural Therapy Program Coordinator Vancouver, BC Name of Facility: Farmers on 57th: A Community Integrated Urban Farm Location: Main location at 57th @ Cambie Street; second satellite location at 7710 Nanaimo Street Start Date: Flexible start date, 8 weeks of full time employment (30 hours/ week). Start by July 1, 2019. Hours offered: 30 hrs/week Compensation: $13.85/hour. This is a 30 hour/week position for 8 weeks. This is a Canada Summer job posting, so the successful applicant must: be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment be a…

Sharing Salad at Growing Eden

sarah August 7, 2017 August 7, 2017Growing Eden, Programs

The last two Wednesdays I was immersed in the Growing Eden program, surrounded by the laughter of children and their mothers, and a lush thriving garden. We hunted for peas – secret green treasures hidden among green leaves. I held the plant steady while small hands pulled determinedly, until the pea pod popped free. Then we carefully placed each pea into the basket, and the hunt continued. Meanwhile, a cluster of mothers gathered kale and edible flowers. ‘You can eat flowers?’ led to a discussion about all the lesser known edible parts of the garden. We also harvested about a…

Ephemeral Art at Growing Eden this Week

August 21, 2016 February 10, 2022Growing Eden

This week at Growing Eden, kids, moms, coordinators and volunteers created beautiful, ephemeral art using flower pedals, leaves, grass and branches we foraged for on site. Farmer’s on 57th Market Garden also donated a bunch of farm fresh flowers for our art and for families to take home. As the summer is heating up, it was a nice break from the sun. We sat together in the shaded walkway, decorating the pathway for ourselves and passers by to enjoy. We also had a delicious lunch today of quinoa veggie stew and broiled peached with vanilla ice cream! One of our weekly attending families…

A bit about Growing Eden

August 16, 2016 February 10, 2022Growing Eden, Uncategorized

Like the Market Garden and Garden Club at the Pearson Hospital, Growing Eden is very special and unique in its own way. This is a place primarily for children and their families to be together in the garden. Connected to Family Place, an ‘Early Years’ family support and parenting centre, a non-profit organization offering programs and services to families with children. Family Place is similar to a drop-in preschool, where children are accompanied by their parents and participate in storey telling, arts and crafts, singing, snacks and other creative endeavours. (Learn more here) In the old parking lot of Family Place…

Growing Eden: Painting with Beets

July 29, 2016 August 10, 2016Growing Eden, Programs

This Thursday was a blast in our South Vancouver Growing Eden garden. The kids picked beets and we made beet paint. Paint got everywhere: the ground, our hands and faces, basically anything in sight. Through it all the kids learned about growing beets, ate beets, and made the most brilliant colours you ever did see. Moms cleaned up the garlic harvest and prepared baskets of groceries to take home. Everyone went home with fully bellies of barbecued veggie and chicken skewers, potato salad and garden salad that we ate together under the dappled shade of the trees. Find out more about…