Grow Walk
Please join Jason Packer, sustainability consultant with Recollective for a lively walk through the Olympic Village. Jason will discuss the green features of the development and how these innovations reflect the changing landscape of sustainable design. How can sustainability be built into our urban environments and enacted in everyday life will be explored in this walking dialogue.
Grow Seed Exchange
The nights are getting darker, the days crisper and the leaves are starting to turn. As fall is now here, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and effort of all the people that contributed to Grow with a special event called the Seed Exchange.
SWARM12
Join us at the Bulkhead Lab for SWARM #12.
1 metre to 100 mile organic food samples prepared by Alexander McNaughton will be served.
Grow is a public art project situated on the periphery of the Olympic Village in South East False Creek, Vancouver.
Ladybug’s Lunch with Maria Keating
Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab (adjacent to Habitat Island in the Olympic Village)
Bring your lunch to the Bulkhead Lab and explore the macro world of our backyard ecosystems with Maria Keating. Learn about our pollinators, processors, native predators and companion planting, the natural approach to pest control for the home gardener.
Grow Workshop: August 13th, 2011
Please join Chloe Bennett, a student of Landscape Architecture at UBC for a lively discussion about mason bee habitat. Mason bees are small blue coloured bees that are important garden pollinators. They have specific needs for nesting and Chloe will be able to guide you in the proper methods of building a mason bee home. She will also share her experience in creating the Vancouver roundabout project Bees Please.
Upcoming Tour: August 6th, 2011
Please join lead artist, Holly Schmidt on a walk through Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab; located on the periphery of the Olympic Village. The Grow project has made a light intervention into this remaining section of undeveloped seawall, posing different solutions for growing in the post-industrial landscape while creating an informal space for sharing knowledge and ideas. Holly will share the process of creating the project while discussing what is growing on site.
Upcoming Workshop: Sunday July 24th
Please join Duncan Martin and his chickens from Duncan’s Backyard Henhouses for an afternoon at the Bulkhead Lab. Duncan will be leading informal demonstrations and discussions on the basics of proper care and keeping of small urban flocks of hens. This interactive session will invite participants to discover best practices for keeping small flocks of hens in their own backyards.
Seed Bomb Making at the Bulkhead Lab
Join us for some seed bomb making at the Bulkhead Lab. We will form clay, compost and seeds into small “bombs” to be lobbed at The Games are Open, a large-scale sculpture of a bulldozer created by Berlin-based artists Köbberling and Kaltwasser. Constructed out of wheat board this sculpture is intended to slowly decompose over time, eventually becoming a plant nursery. The seed bombs will contribute to this burgeoning ecosystem.
The Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab
The Grow project has taken up the transitional state of the Bulkhead site, installing a series of provisional platforms for growing herbs, vegetables, fruit and mushrooms. Many platforms have been installed and new ones are being added as the Lab grows and expands over the summer.
Rajdeep Singh Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib
Please join curator and scholar Rajdeep Singh Gill and artist, writer, and activist Fabiola Nabil Naguib for this talk, discussion and walking journey in expanding notions of sustainability.
Upcoming Third Grow Workshop
Join artist Holly Schmidt, Vancouver Design Nerds, Ocean Dionne and Alicia Medina Laddaga and a team of master gardeners for a workshop exploring the possibilities for growing food in the urban environment. Through observation, discussion and hands-on prototype building you will create and share new ways to grow food in the city. Small pocket gardens will be planted at Creekside and then suspended on chain link fences near the Grow project site. Take a miniature garden of your own to add some green to your neighbourhood.
Grow | Vancouver Design Nerds Jam
The Design Nerds are teaming up with Other Sights for Artist’s Projects to bring you this amazing jam. Grow, is focused on creating an urban agriculture lab in South East False Creek. Join us at the Creekside Community Centre to explore potential platforms for growing in post-industrial urban space.
Upcoming Second Workshop May 28th, 2011
Join artist Holly Schmidt, Vancouver Design Nerds, Ocean Dionne, architects, Stephanie Doerksen, Anne Maissoneuve and artist-gardener Lois Klassen for a workshop exploring the possibilities for growing food in the urban environment.
Upcoming Workshop: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Join artist Holly Schmidt, Vancouver Design Nerds, Ocean Dionne and Alicia Medina Laddaga and a team of master gardeners for a workshop exploring the possibilities for growing food in the urban environment. Through observation, discussion and hands-on prototype building you will create and share new ways to grow food in the city. Small pocket gardens will be planted at Creekside and then suspended on chain link fences near the Grow project site. Take a miniature garden of your own to add some green to your neighbourhood.
Duane Elverum and Holly Schmidt
Please join sustainability educator, Duane Elverum and artist Holly Schmidt for a walking dialogue through SEFC. Duane will draw from his experience in design thinking, architecture and community engagement to consider the concerns of social and ecological sustainability in the context of Vancouver’s greenest development, as well as the urban design challenges of our growing and changing cities. Holly will explore the question of how sustainability can be enacted not just built into our urban environments in the context of Grow, an urban agriculture project in SEFC. This walk will provoke questions, spark curiosity and stimulate a creative response to sustainable futures.
