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Volunteer Group Profile: School Program Leaders
School Program Leaders are the volunteers who lead elementary school children on 90-minute guided programs around the Garden — and, as of January 2019, around Bloedel Conservatory as well. The …
Volunteer Profile: Jeremy Gordon
Check current Volunteer Opportunities, and you will see we are looking for a Bird Walk Co-Leader. This is the result, one could argue, of a far-off event, more than 25 …
Volunteer Profile: Langara College Students
Our Soil Sales are great fund-raisers — but before anybody can buy the soil, somebody has to pick up a shovel and fill the bags. Since 2017, some Langara College …
Volunteer Profile: Cathy Chiba
“What I like so much about the Garden,” says Cathy Chiba, a School Programs volunteer since 2014, “is that, even though it is a designed environment, it is still a …
The Greening of Community – The VanDusen Plant Sale
Audrey Hepburn mused, “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” The VanDusen Plant Sale’s theme for 2018, “40 Years of Connecting People and Plants,” celebrates an event that …
Volunteer Group Profile: VanDusen Seed Collectors
The spirit that, “Every flower of every tomorrow are in the seeds of today” is embodied by VanDusen Botanical Garden’s volunteer Seed Collectors, who are celebrating their 35th Anniversary. Roy …
