Category Archives: Spotlight On Volunteers

Enbridge Gas volunteer group Sep 23, 2025

Community and Corporate Groups in The Garden This Year

April 21, 2026: Walt Disney Canada – Thank you to Grace, Abby and Dayna for braving the cold and rescuing the garlic, asparagus, snow peas, radish and spinach.    …

Planting Days

Planting for the 2026 season is nearing completion! After a cold and rainy start, we got a stretch of really great weather, and with the help of our fabulous volunteers,…

Winter Sown Containers

Cold Weather Seeds Are Started!

Welcome to the 2026 season!  Volunteers braved the icy weather recently for winter sowing. Winter sowing is the practice of planting seeds in translucent containers and leaving them outside in the snow…

Volunteers working in the garden

Want to Volunteer?

Interested in volunteering at our garden? If you are new to the garden and want to receive emails about volunteer workshifts, please send an email to [email protected]. We work in…

2025 Corporate Volunteer Groups

In addition to our individual volunteers, we have been fortunate to have assistance from multiple corporate workteams again this year. Their organizations offer them time to work in the community…

Worm in Winter Compost

The Soil Lives!

All winter, loNgtime volunteer Johnny keeps turning our compost. Even in the dead of winter, soil life lives on and is protected by the organic matter he adds. On behalf…

Compugen summer interns

Tribute to Corporate Volunteer Teams in 2024

In addition to our 50+ strong individual volunteers who come out to work on weekends and weeknights, we were also aided this year by corporate teams who donated a morning…

2024 Year End Volunteer Celebration

2024 Season Ends

We completed our final clean up of the 2024 garden, and then celebrated the season with our volunteers. Delectable dishes were contributed by volunteers, featuring garden produce where we could….

Newly sharpened shovels

2023 Tool Cleanup

 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…