Category Archives: Spotlight On Volunteers

Newly sharpened shovels

OK – really the end of season this time!

 Some beautiful weather on November 18th allowed us to squeeze in one more day of work in the garden.  Paul, Michael, Job (pictured here) and Nathan (pictured here) got to…

Empty strings fro our tomato trellis

End of Season 2023

Parkview Neighbourhood Garden concluded yet another successful season. Thanks to our 40+ volunteers of all ages, we grew enough this year to directly donate 470 lbs of food to neighbourhood…

Time for Tomatillos!

By Liz Carman, PNG Volunteer We are growing a large number of tomatillos at Parkview Neighbourhood Garden, and our volunteer Liz is a real afficianado. She harvested and canned up some…

Our Orchard People

Suz and Chad have been PNG volunteers for five years, and dedicated their time to taking care of our berries and fruit trees. When they wandered through the garden five…

Starbucks Thank You

  Thank you to Starbucks Canada for your recent contributions to PNG! This awesome group of Starbucks Canada store and district managers came to help with spring cleanup, picking up stones,…

New Season!

Spring is here, and volunteer work events are up and running! To visit our events page and learn more about upcoming work events, click here.

Leaves spread on garden beds for winter

End of 2022 Season

Our last volunteer event in the garden was October 30, 2022.  We harvested our remaining jerusalem artichokes and prepared our garlic for fall planting.  We ended with a celebration pot…

Dianne McIntyre

Farewell, Dianne McIntyre

On June 17, 2022, we lost a member of the Parkview Neighbourhood Garden. Today, we celebrate Dianne McIntyre’s life and contributions. Her many loving friends will remember Dianne for her…

Gardening in the desert

Gardening in the Desert

By Sushila Tellis, Parkview Neighbourhood Garden Volunteer I watched my dad gardening, planting vegetables from seed, and growing flower plants. You could say what’s so unusual about this? It was…

Keep 2m apart

How the Pandemic Affected PNG

By: Nan Davey The COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges to PNG.  To begin with, the 2020 season got a late start.  The stable (our toolshed) was marked with a notice…