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  • Free Workshop: Advanced Composting

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    Learn a breadth of advanced composting methods including hot composting, compost tea, and in-situ composting. This workshop aims to broaden the scope of participants’ knowledge of composting methods and will cover methods of composting that require more work and attention. Topics covered will include hot composting to produce big quantities of nutrient rich, living compost…

  • Free Workshop: Worm Composting

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    Learn how to set up and maintain a worm compost bin, sometimes called a vermicompost, and make high quality compost. Everything you need to know about starting up and maintaining a worm bin compost system, also known as vermicomposting. Perfect for small space composting and apartment living, or in addition to other composting systems you…

  • Free On-Line Workshop: Composting Basics

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    Learn to make your own backyard compost- a living soil amendment rich in nutrients and micro-organisms! What is the recipe for compost success and why does composting matter? This workshop will explore the answers to these questions, and will offer instructions on what it takes to produce an amendment for your garden that is rich…

  • Practical Tools for Measuring Soil Health

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    Learn simple techniques for analyzing your soil quality through this hands on workshop

  • Compost Education Centre Plant Sale

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    The Compost Education Centre (CEC) is hosting our annual all-organic August plant sale! August 8-15! 10:00am-4:00pm! The plant sale will take place in our site at 1216 North Park street. Entry by donation or free for CEC members. Dogs welcome. The Fall Organic Plant sale features veggie starts that are perfect for your overwintering vegetable…

  • Introduction to Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

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    Pruning fruit trees in the summer? That’s right! It can be done…and arborist Gordon Mackay will show you how in this introduction to the wonders of summer pruning for fruit trees. While most pruning happens in the winter, for backyard fruit trees, summer pruning provides some important advantages to consider. Damage repair, size control, disease management, enhancing…

  • Plant Identification and Culture Workshop with Jane Tice

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    If you are a new gardener, new to Victoria or just want to brush up on your plant knowledge, this is a great place to get started. This is a monthly class where participants will be introduced to 20 new plants which fit with our local climate. Plants are selected for our local growing conditions…

  • Plant Identification and Culture Workshop with Jane Tice

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    f you are a new gardener, new to Victoria or just want to brush up on your plant knowledge, this is a great place to get started. This is a monthly class where participants will be introduced to 20 new plants which fit with our local climate. Plants are selected for our local growing conditions…

  • Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

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    CLINIC REFERENCE – VMGA – July 10/2026 A native pest of Asia, the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) has been in NorthAmerica for 25 years and in British Columbia for the past 10 years. First seen in Chilliwack in2016, it is now established in urban areas of southwest British Columbia, including Vancouver,the Fraser Valley,…

  • You Asked Us – July 2026

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    Q. Last year my pole beans grew to 1 meter high then stopped growing. I used new seeds. What can I do this year? To determine why your beans stopped growing their true height make sure your site is receiving full sun(6-8 hours) per day. Were you planting in the ground or in pots? Was…