Seedy Sunday

Seedy Sunday 2025 In collaboration with Nanaimo Community Gardens, this is a one-day community event to promote seed saving, local seed providers, and education on growing local.  With an attendance of over 1,000, free educational workshops focused on growing, and local vendors with information and products related to growing, eating and supporting local; this event […]

Homegrown

Two participants in Homegrown working in the garden.

Homegrown offers paid work placement & skills training for youth ages 15-30 who identify as having a barrier to employment.

Cultivating Abilities

Two young people peeking out behind blackberry bushes on a sunny day,

Cultivating Abilities offers work-placement and skills training for adults 30-55 who identify as having a disability.

Park Avenue Farm Tours

Tractor on Five Acres Farm

Park Avenue Farm Tours The City of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Foodshare partner on an urban farm site in Nanaimo. Our programming provides ecological and food growing and cooking knowledge in our community.   You can find the Park Avenue Farm at 945 Park Ave. This land was the hunting grounds of the Snuneymuxw People. It is also […]