2nd Annual Westside Food Festival comes to town

This year, Village Vancouver is hosting their 2nd annual Westside Food Festival. While more than halfway through the festival, there are still dozens of activities to come from now until August 9. This festival takes place in locations throughout the westside of Vancouver: Fairview-False Creek, Marpole-Oakridge, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, and West Point Grey.

These workshops and activities are part of Village Vancouver’s ongoing Building Community Food Security and Resilience Project. Village Vancouver’s work “inspires individuals and organizations to take actions that build resilient and sustainable communities.” They operate as a knowledge and resource hub to bring people together over issues of social, environmental, and economic change.

Upcoming Westside Food Fest events

JULY 31

6-8pm Menu Planning, Meal Prep & Mason Jar Salads at Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre (FULL – waiting list)

6:30-8:30 Gardening in Difficult Spaces at Kits VPL

AUGUST 1

7-8:30pm Kits Village Potluck 

8:30-10:30pm VV Goes To Fireworks at tip of Kits Point (behind Maritime Museum)

AUGUST 2

3–7pm Westside Community Food Market at Kits Neighbourhood House

6:30-8:30pm Eating Defensively by Growing your Own at Kits Neighbourhood House

AUGUST 3

6-8pm False Creek South Urban Ag Walking Tour starts at Thornton Park (near Starbucks)

AUGUST 4

10am-12:30pm Aberthau Collaborative Permaculture Garden Work Party at WPG Community Centre

12:30-1:30pm WPG Village Community Potluck in the Garden at WPG Community Centre

1:30-3:30pm Intro to Organic Gardening at WPG Community Centre

3:45-5:45pm Fall and Winter Gardening at WPG Community Centre

7-8:30pm Kits Village Potluck at Kits (near Broadway)

8:30-10:30pm VV Goes To Fireworks at tip of Kits Point (behind Maritime Museum)

AUGUST 5

9:15-11:15am Concepts in Year-Round Gardening at WPG Community Centre

11:30am-1pm Intro to Fermenting at WPG Community Centre (limited spaces left)

1-2pm WPG Village Community Potluck in the Garden at WPG Community Centre

2-4pm Growing Your Own Microgreens at WPG Community Centre

4:10-5:40pm Drip Water Irrigation for a Waterwise Garden at WPG Community Centre

AUGUST 6

10-11am VV Green Streets Garden Work Party at Kits (near Broadway)

4-6:30pm Kits Village Collaborative Garden work party (TBC) at Billy Bishop Legion Hall

AUGUST 7

7:15-8:15pm VV Green Streets Garden Work Party at Kits (near Kits Beach)

AUGUST 8

6-8pm Intro to Fermenting at False Creek Community Centre

AUGUST 9

3–7pm Westside Community Food Market at Kits Neighbourhood House

7:30-8:30pm Seed Packet Party! at Kits Village Collaborative Garden (near Kits Beach)

AUGUST 12 

4-6:30pm Kits Village Collaborative Garden work party at Billy Bishop Legion Hall

AUGUST 15

5:30-8:30pm Intro to Canning – Make Your Own Pickles at WPG Community Centre (FULL – waiting list)

6-8pm Making Sauerkraut at Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre