Gardening Workshops

Our participants develop a deeper connection with food and:

Empower your community with the skills to grow food!

🌱 Teamwork

🌱 Creativity

🌱 Sense of accomplishment

🌱 Reduce stress levels

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“I have worked with Jessica on a number of workshops, she is a knowledgeable and passionate instructor with a relaxed and professional demeanor. Jessica provides practical takeaways and interactive discussions, answering questions with ease and experience. Thank you for leading our workshop.”

— Christine

Jessica hosting a workshop at Southlands, Centre for Farming and Food

Example Workshops

Gardening Success.

This workshop covers the dos & don’ts of starting a garden and is targeted for audiences who want to learn how to grow your own food or intermediate gardeners looking to get some tips from a master gardener.

Urban Container Gardener.

This workshop outlines how to successfully grow food in containers and is targeted for audiences who might not have space to grow food in big backyards and the living soil systems.

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FAQs

Jess is passionate about deepening her connection with people and plants!
Gather’s master gardener has 8 years of professional growing experience in: indoor hydroponics, outdoor market gardening, mushroom cultivation, and raising happy chickens. She owned her own certified-organic mixed vegetable and oyster mushroom farm for 2 years on Vancouver Island. During this time, she paired long hours in the field with lectures and field-course education:
- Lectures and field-course based education at the University of Victoria to complete her Permaculture Design Certificate, 2017;
- Geography and Environmental Management program at the University of Waterloo, 2018;
- Organic Master Gardener Certificate from Gaia College, 2021
The next adventure led her to move to Vancouver to pursue indoor agriculture for 3 years. Her time in Vancouver has been focused on garden design and growing in small and unusual urban spaces. Today she is passionate about helping others learn how to grow their own vegetables, microgreens, mushrooms and more in whatever urban or rural environment they have access to!
Metro Vancouver (North Van, West Van, downtown, East Van, South Van, Richmond, Delta, Surrey, Po Co, Maple Ridge, etc.) but we can also go further if you are willing to pay for travel costs and time!
We offer workshops anytime between 9am-8pm.
A popular time to book a workshop is on a Saturday. If this interests you then please contact us as soon as possible to ensure we can schedule a time.
You can book a workshop anywhere from 10 business days to 6 months in advance!

We recommend booking as soon as possible if you would like to host a workshop that requires some supplies to be ordered. For example, Seedlings, soil, planters, mushroom spawn etc.
We have some examples below but, are always developing new content and workshop ideas! We would love to hear from you if you want something more custom or have an idea for us.

Example Workshops:

Gardening Success
Container Gardening
Urban Gardening 101
Preparing for Fall Gardening
Mushrooms in the Garden
Tomatoes Masterclass
Hydroponics 101
Growing Microgreens
Learn more here!
You can book a workshop by filling out our form here! Let us know what dates. you have in mind, the type of workshop you are interested and the anticipated audience size. Jess will get back to you within 48 business hours. If you are unsure, just let Jess know you’d like to book a 15 minute call to learn more!