Category Archives: Spotlight On Volunteers

Compugen summer interns

Tribute to Corporate Volunteer Teams in 2024

In addition to our 50+ strong individual volunteers who come out to work on weekends and weeknights, we were also aided this year by corporate teams who donated a morning…

2024 Year End Volunteer Celebration

2024 Season Ends

We completed our final clean up of the 2024 garden, and then celebrated the season with our volunteers. Delectable dishes were contributed by volunteers, featuring garden produce where we could….

Volunteers working in the garden

Want to Volunteer?

Interested in volunteering at our garden? If you are new to the garden and want to receive emails about 2025 volunteering, please send an email to [email protected]. We work in…

Newly sharpened shovels

2023 Tool Cleanup

 Some beautiful weather on November 18th allowed us to squeeze in one more day of work in the garden.  Paul, Michael, Job (pictured here) and Nathan (pictured here) got to…

Empty strings fro our tomato trellis

End of Season 2023

Parkview Neighbourhood Garden concluded yet another successful season. Thanks to our 40+ volunteers of all ages, we grew enough this year to directly donate 470 lbs of food to neighbourhood…

Time for Tomatillos!

By Liz Carman, PNG Volunteer We are growing a large number of tomatillos at Parkview Neighbourhood Garden, and our volunteer Liz is a real afficianado. She harvested and canned up some…

Our Orchard People

Suz and Chad have been PNG volunteers for five years, and dedicated their time to taking care of our berries and fruit trees. When they wandered through the garden five…

Starbucks Thank You

  Thank you to Starbucks Canada for your recent contributions to PNG! This awesome group of Starbucks Canada store and district managers came to help with spring cleanup, picking up stones,…

Picture of produce that has been harvested

New Season!

Spring is here, and volunteer work events are up and running! To visit our events page and learn more about upcoming work events, click here.

Leaves spread on garden beds for winter

End of 2022 Season

Our last volunteer event in the garden was October 30, 2022.  We harvested our remaining jerusalem artichokes and prepared our garlic for fall planting.  We ended with a celebration pot…