NCGS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND POTLUCK Each year in spring, Community Gardens holds its Annual General Meeting to get ready for the growing season ahead. The date for the 2026 AGM and potluck is  Tuesday April1 4 from 5:30-8pm. It will be held at the Nanaimo Unitarian Fellowship Hall at 595 Townsite Rd, Nanaimo. AGMs [Continue]

  With the publication of every City of Nanaimo Activity Guide, the Nanaimo Community Gardens Society offers a number of gardening workshops designed to help you increase your horticultural skills. This year we offer a number of new workshops. Check them out below and sign up on the city’s website Activity Guide (nanaimo.ca)  in the [Continue]

Each year many pruning workshops are held at the Community Garden sites. These workshops focus on fruit tree pruning to demonstrate practices to restore old trees and increase flower and fruit production. While these classes have been popular for over a decade, NCGS has recently been holding these classes at the Beaufort Park Food Forest [Continue]

GLEANING ORIENTATION DATES 2026 Gleaning Program 2026 Since 1993, the Gleaning Program has been harvesting fruit and produce from gardens, farms and back yards in the Nanaimo region. This is among the longest running gleaning programs in the province and is very successful in terms of reducing food waste in the region.   New Gleaners: [Continue]

We took some time recently to take out the old tubes of mason bee cocoons and replace them with fresh, new paper tubes. These tubes are where the new female mason bees will lay their eggs, fully provisioned with pollen. These eggs will hatch and the larvae will eat and grow until they are large [Continue]