2025 Season Kickoff Event

Come join us for the 2025 Season Kickoff event at Riley Park Community Garden! This is an annual event celebrating food security, food waste reduction & community building. We’ll have some live music, snacks and « bring your own T-shirt » screen printing!

A great opportunity for existing, new and interested community members to connect and learn more about the organization as well as local fruit. Come say hi!

This event also acts as a Fundraiser so we can carry out our operations for this upcoming fruit season. We will have a by donation screen printing activity as well as tickets available for purchase for our door prizes.

What to expect at our Seaosn Kick Off :

• Bring your own Tshirt screen printing*

• Music by Old Urchin Sxophone Group & Solidarity Notes choir.

• Learn about our history, impact, community partners and volunteer opportunities

• Opportunity to meet with those involved with the project including board members, staff and superstar volunteers!

• Connect with like-minded people

• Snacks provided by City Reach care Society

• We will have raffle prizes thanks to Earnest Ice Cream, Figaros Garden, The Soap Dispensary, West Coast Seeds, Lee Valley Tools, Coast Salish Nursery & Samsary Cycle.

Accessibility: This an an outdoor event, there is a path that is accessible for scooters and chairs that connects to the gathering space. The parking lot to the east of the park has accessible parking permit spaces.

We will have masks and earplugs available to hand out.

To learn more about us please visit our website: https://vancouverfruittree.com/

If you have any questions please contact coordinator@vancouverfruittreeproject.com.

The Vancouver Fruit Tree Project acknowledges that this event and the work we do takes place on the traditional, unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We are privileged to be here and are committed to the ongoing care of these lands with our host nations.

Please RSVP via this event page or via email (coordinator@vancouverfruittree.com).

This is a free event , we ask you to consider donating to the project so we can continue to further our mission to streghten food security in Vancouver by celebrating and distributing the bounty of our local fruit trees, reducing fruit waste, and cultivating community in our neighbourhoods.

*Further Screen Printing Details

• Bring your own T-shirt

• We will be using black ink for the design

• Thank you to Sof Pickstone for the design!

• Thanks to Goodluck Studioes for the screen and all the guidance.