Community Orchard Planting Workshop

Mar 3
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Sunday March 29 | 10am–12pm 355 Blackburn Road – Salt Spring Centre of Yoga

Help and learn to build a brighter, healthier, hazelnuttier future!

On Sunday March 29th from 10–12, we will gather at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga on Blackburn Road to plant an orchard of 200+ nut trees and medicinal plants as part of our Community Orchard planting project.

This is a hands-on opportunity to take part in something that will feed and support the community for generations to come.

We will be planting over 200 hazelnut trees, along with shagbark hickories, walnuts, and elderberries generously donated by Nigel Kay. Nigel has long been committed to ecological growing and regenerative land stewardship, and his donation makes this orchard possible at a meaningful scale.

We are also grateful to Rupert Adams of Akasha Seeds for donating a variety of medicinal perennials. Rupert is a member of the BC Eco Seed Co-op and has been cultivating vegetable, grain, and herb seeds for over two decades, with a particular focus on medicinal herbs. He is the founder of Kairos Botanicals, a not-for-profit producing ecologically grown medicinal herbs and tinctures, and co-author of Medicinal Herbs to Know and Grow (2021) and Medicinal Perennials to Know and Grow (2023), published by Harbour Publishing. Rupert currently farms at Hope Hill Farm here on Salt Spring Island and continues to contribute to seed security initiatives across Canada.