Forest Fables
Upcoming Events
2025 Events
Dates and locations
​Armstrong Library and Armstrong/Spallumcheen Climate Action (ASCA)
are collaborating to bring you a monthly repair/repurpose café.​​
Repair/repurpose café dates:
3rd Wednesday of the month
2:30-4:30 pm
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January 15
February 19
March 19
April 16
May 21
September 17
October 15
November 19
December 17
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Come join us and learn how to fix and repurpose your every day items. Each month we will focus on a specific topic. Topics to be announced. Snacks will be provided. Free. Open to all ages.
Armstrong Library
Smith Drive, Armstrong, BC
FEBRUARY
Book signing and lecture
Tuesday February 18, 7 pm
Come and join Swedish/Canadian author Mikaela Cannon as she visits her hometown and shares her foraging and cultural experiences in North America.
You will learn about some local Swedish plants and their uses as well as some Canadian ones and the ways they are the same and how they differ.
The English Bookshop
Kungsgatan 19
Gothenburg (Göteborg)
Sweden
MARCH
Shuswap Seed Swap
Saturday March 1, 10 am-3 pm
Come visit our booth and share foraging tips and food forest ideas. We would love to see you!
For more information see:
https://shuswapseedsavers.ca/shuswap-seed-swap
Splatsin Community Centre
5767 Old Vernon Rd
Enderby, BC
Kelowna Seed Swap
and Foraging Workshop
Sunday 9 March, 10 am-3 pm
Mikaela will be holding a workshop on foraging
11:45 am -12:30 pm
Come learn about local spring plants and their uses. We will also have a booth with food forest plants and copies of the book Foraging as a Way of Life. Come visit and nerd out about plants with us.
Parkinson Recreation Centre
Apple Room
1800 Parkinson Way
Kelowna, BC
Presentation
about foraging for the Enderby Garden Club.
Monday March 10, 1:30 pm
More info to come
Foraging Workshop
Thursday March 20, 9 am
at Monashee Outdoors
Come learn about your local wild plants, what you can do with them and how you can forage sustainably.
Contact info@monasheeoutdoors.ca to register.
Monashee Outdoors
2595 Pleasant Valley Blvd
Armstrong, BC
APRIL
Foraging Hike
Saturday April 5, 2 pm
with North Westside Community Library
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More info to come
Green Fair
Saturday April 19, 9 am -2 pm
A fair to celebrate environmental solutions and sustainable living.
There will be vendors, music, speakers, grassroots movements and more.
Come celebrate our beautiful planet.
IPE grounds
Armstrong, BC
MAY
Foraging Presentation
Wednesday May 7, 7 pm
North Okanagan Naturalist Club​
More info to come: www.nonc.ca
Schubert Centre
Vernon, BC
