Grow Food/Get Cooking Camps

Have hands-on fun while learning food growing and cooking skills!
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 […]
Let’s Eat! Cooking Classes

Learn knife skills, cooking techniques and yummy flavour combos to recreate at home!
Garden-in-a-Box (6 week program)

Supplies and class content without the need for outdoor growing space.
Learn to Grow Facilitation

Learn how to maintain your garden as a group with curricular support.
Kids Get Cooking Kits & Videos

This 4-week cooking and nutrition program provides tasty and simple recipes for kids.
Homegrown

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

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

Generations Eating Together is a social and mentorship program for people over the age of 55 years.
Park Avenue Farm Tours

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 […]