All community members are welcome to join us in the gardens for regular weeknight sessions from mid-April to early October. As days get shorter, we shift to less regular weekend sessions planned around tasks and weather. December and January are our most active time, with willow harvest requiring over 100 hours of community volunteerism to bring in our weaving willow! Garden sessions include tea and conversation time and often a handwork tangent connected to the seasonal bounty. Garden orientation sessions for new garden stewards happen in the Spring and Fall. If you are keen to join outside these start times, please speak to one of our garden members at a community event for details.

The Vancouver Fibreshed working group supports the development of a regional fibre system within a ~300 km radius of Downtown Vancouver. We connect local fibre producers, artisans, educators, and organizations while fostering knowledge sharing around land-based textile practices. Through producer mapping, community gatherings, and collaborative programming, this working group aims to strengthen relationships across the regional fibre network and highlight opportunities to build a more regenerative and locally rooted textile economy. The Vancouver Fibreshed also serves as part of the broader international Fibershed network supporting regional fibre systems worldwide.

Learn more about the Vancouver Fibreshed Working Group.

The Community Care group creates low-barrier spaces for community members to share skills, resources, and care through making and mending. In collaboration with Distro Disco’s mobile free store, we host a monthly community mending station at Trillium Park, offering basic tools, supplies, skill sharing, and mending kits for clothing, tarps, tents, and other well-loved items. The mending tent is a gentle space to gather, work alongside neighbours, and explore a shared ethic of “make-and-mend before shop-and-spend,” rooting care and creativity in community.

Learn more about Community Care at EartHand.

We are exploring ways to bridge the space between learning more formally in our workshops and the impromptu sharing that happens over drop-in sessions. These focused co-learning pods are intended to be a low-barrier cost option, with a nominal fee to a member of the EartHand community as the group facilitator. Expect supportive co-working circles for continued motivation, community accountability to get a project through to completion and occasional technical support.

Pod groups may vary year-to-year, but some topics include basketry weaving, carving, natural dyeing, tannin research, hand stitching, making spinning tools, indigo grow and dye, and more.

EartHand’s operating model can support a maximum of 5 working artists on the board. These artists meet more often to make decisions and do the daily work connected to delivering programs as volunteers. As working artists, they also receive payment for programs they lead.