Urban Agriculture and Greening

The goal of this division is to bring urban youth into closer contact with natural spaces and food production. Through our programs we work with children, youth and adults in parks, schools, and gardens to create spaces to learn about and appreciate nature.
 
 
 
Backyard Bounty back to top
The Backyard Bounty Collective (BBC) is a collection of four new small businesses based in Vancouver that focus on backyard food systems that you may not (yet) see on your daily stroll down the lane. A recipient of Vancity’s enviroFund award, Backyard Bounty will help four ‘Farmpreneurs’ partner with Vancouver residents to design, build, and maintain small farming operations on their residential property. ... more
 
CROW's point garden back to top
History: The City of Vancouver has chosen EYA to turn the triangular lot on the corner of E.24th Ave. and Vanness Ave. into a community garden. Plan: This space will be approximately 1/2 a native plant habitat, and 1/2 community garden plots. In the native plant area, we are planning to grow berry bushes and medicinal herbs. There will be 30 plots in total with 1/3-1/2 set aside for young ... more
 
Growing Kids Workshops back to top
Our free Growing Kids Workshops are currently receiving bookings for Spring 2010 Please get in touch with us to learn about our workshop program. Our Growing Kids workshops aim to educate children on Food Security, Urban Agriculture and Community Stewardship. This will be our sixth season in classrooms, offering an exciting & interactive educational workshop for students in grades 2-3. Our 2 ... more
 
Growing Kids Volunteer Educator back to top
Growing Kids 2010 Spring Season The Environmental Youth Alliance is looking for committed community members to help deliver hands on workshops in Elementary School classrooms and food gardens. Workshops will be co-facilitated by trained Volunteer Educators and the Growing Kids Program Coordinator to enable garden work to be done in small, hands on groups. Throughout March and April we ... more
 
Natural Medicine in the City back to top
COURSE IS NOW FULL Thanks to all who applied. Watch for the next round. Fridays February 5 - March 19 2010 2:30 - 5:00 PM at the Strathcona Community Garden This is a participatory program where we will invite all participants to share their knowledge and contribute to group learning. During the program we will: -have an introduction to using plants as medicine -collect plant material -learn to make ... more
 
The Community Nursery and Urban Seeds back to top
Community Nursery Background To make our cities more habitable for all the earth's species (cities need birds and bugs too!) we need more plants, a lot more! The city suffers from pollution, heat exhaustion, and a lack of habitat...plants can help! Plants take in CO2 and release oxygen, they also have a cooling effect on our landscape, and provide food and shelter for all sorts of animals (including ... more
 
Blood Alley Community Greening Project back to top
UPDATE: This fall (2009) in partnership with the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings Project EYA and local community members will be installing a living wall in Blood Alley. Please click the link at the bottom of the page to see a concept drawing provided to us in-kind by UBC's Greenskins lab in the school of Architecture. In August 2008 we began consulting with various members of the community surrounding ... more
 
The 'Community Hive' back to top
The ‘Community Hive’ is a collaborative effort between the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA), the Means of Production Artist Raw Resources Collective (MOPARRC), and Master Beekeeper Brian Campbell. The ‘Community Hive’ seeks to mentor and support youth in the apiculture industry and to engage Vancouver residents in the importance of the issues facing bees across North America. One honeybee colony ... more
 
Thoughts From an EYA Bee Apprentice back to top
From 'Communty Hive' Apprentice, John Mardlin... Much has been made lately in the media about the plight of the bee. Pesticide use and invasive species are threatening the bees, both in the wild and in beekeepers’ hives. The Environmental Youth Alliance’s Community Hive program is an effort to increase urban bee habitat and populations in Vancouver and to increase public awareness of bee and pollination ... more
 
Pollinators Paradise project expanding! back to top
In partnership with the Vancouver Park Board, EYA has received funding from Vancouver Foundation, Canadian Wildlife Federation, and TD Friends of the Environment Foundation for the expansion of the mason bee project we told you about last summer. With volunteer 'bee stewards', the project's main objective is to establish 50 mason bee 'highrises' and relevant garden plantings in neighbourhood parks ... more
 
EYA Youth Garden back to top
Located in the Cottonwood Community Garden, EYA's Youth Garden provides an important green space in a densely populated area of the city where few local youth have access to the natural environment. For over ten years EYA has worked alongside community mentors, training young people in organic food production, seed saving, and plant propagation as a means to self sufficiency and career development ... more
 
Means of Production back to top
The Means of Production attempts to address the distancing between the use of artists materials and the resources from where they came, through a working model of sustainable inner-city forestry. It involves the production of valuable, organic artist materials such as paper, charcoal, and exotic wood, using permaculture (permanent agriculture) principles to provide the means for many artists to do ... more
 
Vancouver Community Agriculture Network back to top
2008 Garden Projects 57th and East Boulevard Partners: Gore and Keefer Medicinal Healing Garden Partners: Vancouver Native Health Downtown East Side Location Partner: PHS Community Services Society South China Creek Park Partner: Urban Diggers Society Trout Lake Community Partner: Trout Lake Cedar Cottage Food Security Network, Vancouver Urban Agriculture Network. Please get in touch to get ... more