On Wednesday, Nov 13, 10 artists gathered at the Champlain Heights Community Centre to learn lantern building techniques and begin constructing lanterns for our Light up the Night in Champlain Heights festival! Eco-Artist, Joshua Ralph, helped lead the collabaration. He began with a land acknolwedgement… Read More »Artist Collaboration!
Today, on Sat, Nov 2, 18 volunteers gather at the Douglas Fir Teaching Garden on the Red Alder Trail for our monthly Invasive Pull. We began with a welcome circle and land ackowledgment. Our volunteer co-lead, Genevieve, invited each volunteer to introduce themselves, share their… Read More »Wild Chervil & Native Plants!
Our Healing Forest planting event, held on Sunday, Oct 20, truly demonstrated how dedicated all our Free the Fern volunteers are! The event took place at the tail-end of an atmospheric river, which had been causing flooding throughout the Lower Mainland. Our Healing Forest event… Read More »Healing Forest – Oct 20, 2024
Today we had one of our largest groups of volunteers we have ever had for an Invasive Pull! An incredible 24 volunteers gathered at the Douglas Fir Teaching Garden in South Vancouver eager to help remove invasives along the Red Alder Trail. Our focus was… Read More »Invasive Pull – Sat, Oct 5, 2024
In honour of Truth & Reconciliation Day, 12 local volunteers gathered today to plant 90 native plants along the Red Alder Trail in South Vancouver. We consider our Free the Fern stewardship effort to be an act of healing and reconciliation, replacing colonial invasive species… Read More »Truth & Reconciliation Planting 2024
Today, Saturday, Sept 21, Free the Fern was honoured to have Elder Marge Wylie and her friend, Corinne Stadel, lead a Crab apple Jelly & Jam Workshop. 12 community members gathered at the Kinross Creek Co-op common room. Marge shared her techniques for preserving, while… Read More »Crab Apple Jelly & Blackberry Jam Workshop
Today, we had our first pull since our summer break and it was a great event! 18 volunteers gathered at the Douglas Fir Teaching Garden. After a land acknowledgment, safety talk, and some ice-breaker stretching, we got to work! Today’s stewardship task was to remove… Read More »Invasive Pull – Sept 7, 2024
On Aug 31, 2024, 20 local community members and volunteers gathered under the towering trees in the Douglas Fir Teaching Garden for our Nature is for Everyone: Annual General Meeting. Erin Knock, Free the Fern President, welcomed everyone and gave a land acknolwedgment. We then… Read More »Annual General Meeting 2024
In honour of Indigneous History Month & Pride Month, Free the Fern hosted a free public event, BioDIVERSITY, on Saturday, June 22, 10am-1pm. It was held at the beautiful Douglas Fir Teaching Garden, which was recently designated a National Healing Forest for reconciliation. Approximately 40… Read More »BioDiversity – June 22, 2024
On Tuesday, June 25 at 6pm, we held a painted lady butterfly release on the Red Alder Trail! Inspired by the local Champlain Heights Annex school, who raise butterflies for release each year, Free the Fern Executive Director, Grace, had ordered the catterpillars from Education… Read More »Butterfly Release!