The Compost Education Centre is pleased to offer a diverse range of workshops on composting, organic gardening, and sustainable living topics every year. Check out what’s coming up at the Centre on this page, below, or click your way over to our Eventbrite page for the full line-up and descriptions! Our workshops always fill up, pre-registration is necessary.
You can register for workshops through our Eventbrite page, by calling the Centre at 250-386-9676, or by emailing us at office@compost.bc.ca. Be sure to double check dates and times on the workshop listings on Eventbrite. Each link below will take you to the event page.
Some are online, some are in person, some have both options available.
Click the workshops below to find out more, and to register.
Jan 30: Winter Fruit Tree Pruning
Feb 6: FREE Workshop: Composting basics
Feb 20: Planning Your Year Round Veggie Garden
Feb 27: Growing Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest
Feb 27: Advanced Fruit Tree Pruning
Mar 6: FREE Workshop: Composting Basics
Mar 17: Gardening for Garry Oak Ecosystems
Mar 20: Making Sub Irrigated Bucket Planters
Mar 27: FREE Workshop: Worm Composting
Mar 27: Grow Your own Food 101
Mar 31: Native Seeds for Gardens and Restorations
Apr 10: Soil Amendments: What and When
Apr 17: FREE Workshop: Advanced Composting
Apr 24: FREE Workshop: Really Important Tiny Lives
Apr 24: Regenerative Agriculture for the Home Garden
May 1: FREE Workshop: Composting Basics
May 1: Do You Know What Your Veggies Really need?
May 8: Spring Organic Plant Sale
May 15: Building Healthy Soil for the Home Garden
May 15: Growing Medicinal Herbs
June 5: Indigenous Plant Walk for Black Indigenous and People of Colour
June 5: FREE Workshop Composting Basics
June 12: Creating an Herbal First Aid Kit
June 19: Botanical Illustrations (In Person)
June 26: Why do Flowers and Bees Love Each Other so Much?
June 26: Botanical Illustrations (Online)
July 10: Bugs in the Garden: The Good, The bad, and The Merely Ugly
August 7: August Organic Plant Sale
August 28: Grow Your Own Mushrooms
September 11: FREE Workshop: Composting Basics
September 11: Hot Water Bath Canning
September 18: Fermenting Hard Cider
September 25: FREE Workshop: Soil: Really Important Tiny Lives
September 25: Pressure Canning
October 2: FREE Workshop: Composting Basics
October 2: Fermented Sauces and Salsa
October 16: FREE Workshop: Advanced Composting
October 23: Creating a Winter Herbal Medicine Kit
October 30: Gluten Free Sourdough Making and Baking
October 30: SEMSEMÍYE: Indigenous Pollinator Stories
November 6: FREE Workshop: Composting Basics
November 6: Perennial Vegetables
November 13: Advanced Mushroom Growing Techniques
November 13: Fermenting Tempeh
November 20: FREE Workshop: Advanced Composting: Sheet Mulching
November 27: Resilient Lifestyles: Permaculture 101
