The program now has a drop-in option!

Hello Friends of SLUGS!

Drop-in SLUGS

Too busy to do SLUGS??  Exciting news!  You can now take the SLUGS workshops without committing to the whole Feb-Sept season.  Anyone can come at any time. (Cost for drop-in is $5).  Check out the workshop line-up below to pick out the workshops you want to do!

Cheaper SLUGS!

We got a grant!! Now, you can also join up for the Full Season at anytime for only $175!! - with bursaries available

Field Trips

For full-season participants or folks who regularly come to workshops, there will be seven awesome Saturday fieldtrips to local farms, ecovillages, and gardens to check out what is happening around Victoria. (See line-up below.)

Why the Change?

We received a lot of feedback from youth that they were super excited about the program, but too incredibly busy with school and clubs and all the amazing stuff that you are all committed to already.  This way, you can come when it works for you – and bring friends to join in the fun!

Also, we received 2 generous grants from the Lifecycles Project Society and VanCity enviroFund, which has allowed us to expand and improve the program and make it more accessible to anyone who wants to take part!

Wait, what is SLUGS again?

Sustainable Living and Urban Gardening Skills

-       A fun season of growing food and learning to live green in the city!

-          Weekly workshops (4-6:30pm Thursdays)

-          Monthly fieldtrips

-          Help starting up your own garden (= free food!)

-          Community projects

-          Leadership/volunteer hours

-     Fun, friends, food!

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Last-minute applications & Donations

The SLUGS application deadline has now passed, but we are still accepting late applications from those last-minute folks who are still interested. Email it (sitemgr@compost.bc.ca), fax it (250-386-9678), or drop it by our office (1216 North Park St). Spring is fast approaching and so is the program start date, so send your applications in as soon as you can.

We'd like to extend a big thank you to two generous organizations for their support of SLUGS! Stellar Seeds in Sorrento, B.C. has donated a huge box of organic heritage seeds to the program for the youth to use this season and they look amazing. Vancity enviroFund generously awarded a grant to help support the SLUGS program and all our projects, gardens, fieldtrips, and events! A huge thank you to both of them, their support is deeply appreciated.

And if YOU would like to support us, we would gladly accept in-kind donations! Gardening can be a tool-intensive and expensive passion to take up, so we are looking for donations of good quality, good condition tools and other supplies for the SLUGS program. If you have any of the below items and would like to donate them to us, please us at call 250-386-9676!

o       Secateurs (hand pruners), pruners & pruning saws

o       Digging forks, shovels, hand trowels

o       Hoes, swoes & shears

o       Wheelbarrows

o       Hammers, screwdrivers, screws & nails

o       Greenhouse plastic

o       Hardware cloth (¼” – ½”)

o       Long pieces ½” – 1½” PVC piping

o       Lumber for building raised beds and compost bins

o       Garden hose nozzles, Garden hoses and irrigation supplies

o       Art supplies: pastels, acrylic paints, pencil crayons, drawing paper, blank journals