I am excited to share that we have 19 volunteers, including 16 student volunteers from BCIT Ecological Restoration Program, signed up to volunteer from December 27-29 with our Invasive Plant Mapping project. Volunteers will be working along a portion of the Red Alder Trail to… Read More »Invasive Plant Mapping
Thanks to the support of a Neighbourhood Small Grant and the Kinross Creek Housing Co-op Social Committee, Free the Fern hosted two Lantern Making Workshops today, December 12, 2021. 30 participants, ranging in age from 4 to over 70 years old, attended the two workshops.… Read More »Lantern Making Workshops
On Saturday, December 4, Free the Fern member, Susan Atkey, hosted a very successful Invasive Weed Pull along the Red Alder Trail, adjacent to the Cartier Place Townhomes. 14 volunteers, from the ages of 4 to over 70 years old, showed up to lend a… Read More »Invasive Weed Pull – Cartier Place
On Saturday, December 4, 2021 we had a Free the Fern table set up at the Tugboat Landing Artisan Market. The Tugboat Landing Artisan Market was a great event organized by Barbra Borchardt, a local community planner and editor and chief for ILiveInEastVan.com. Many local… Read More »Tugboat Landing Artisan Market
On Saturday, November 6, Free the Fern member, Martin Collins, hosted our monthly Invasive Weed Pull, adjacent to his co-op, Alexander Laidlaw, along the Red Alder Trail. We had 6 volunteers out to support the removal effort. The focus was on removing the invasive ground… Read More »Invasive Weed Pull – Alexander Laidlaw Co-op
On a beautiful sunny Saturday morning on October 30 2021, Free the Fern member, Damian Assadi, lead a Youth Planting Event, along the Red Alder Trail, adjacent to Kinross Creek Co-op. Thanks to a #RisingYouth grant he was able to purchase native plants and shrubs… Read More »Youth Planting Event
Thanks to our major sponsor, TD Park People Grant, free the fern hosted a very successful Community Planting Event along the Red Alder Trail on October 24, 2021. We had 38 eager volunteers serving as volunteer leaders, volunteer planters, photographer, info table monitors, set-up/clean-up crew,… Read More »Community Planting Event!
In preparation for our Community Planting Event on October 24 we have: received a 5 cubic yard truck of soil, funded by Kinross Creek Housing Co-op Landscape Committee been offered $50 from the Independent Grocery to fund the purchase of drinks and snacks received a… Read More »Getting Ready for Planting
Today, I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Renfrew Ravine (the last surviving ravine with a natural creek in the city of Vancouver). The tour was lead by the Still Moon Arts Society, and facilitated by Tasha Murray of the Invasive Species… Read More »Still Moon Arts Society
On Sunday, September 26, I had the opportunity to volunteer with the Lower Mainland Green Team at Ron McLean Park in Burnaby. The Lower Mainland Green Team, founded in 2011, is a registered charity that organizes invasive removal and planting events at parks all around… Read More »Lower Mainland Green Team