UBC Farm Community Workshops The UBC Farm offers 50+ workshops per year, on a wide range of topics, such as gardening, cooking, baking, food preservation, herbs, plant walks, foraging, arts, wellness, and more. Among the new offerings in 2026, we're excited to welcome several new workshop presenters, including celebrity chefs' Bruno Feldeisen and Dara Yu […]
What if the most effective ways to fight climate change made you happy? UBC Psychology professors Dr. Elizabeth Dunn and Dr. Jiaying Zhao will discuss their groundbreaking book Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species. Discover how taking actions that bring you joy can improve your life while making an impact on climate change. Learn […]
In this talk, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Ed Yong shares how he became a birder. After becoming burnt out from years of pandemic reporting, Yong turned to birdwatching to help improve his mental health and return to his nature writing beat. Along the way, Yong found a much deeper connection to the natural […]
If you’ve ever wanted to see inside a live honey bee hive, this workshop is for you. During this hands-on experience, will carefully open up a working hive at the UBC Farm. You will experience first hand what happens inside the hive. You will be able to watch the bees care for young, transfer nectar […]
The past year’s announcements of climate policy reversals and new oil and gas projects were followed by yet another summer of major climate impacts in British Columbia, Canada, and globally. How are we doing as a province and country when it comes to climate policy? We have assembled two leading experts to help us address […]
Foraging Guide, Chef Robin, shows you how to SAFELY find edible wild mushrooms in BC forests. We'll go for an easy stroll and identify all the mushrooms we find, focusing on easy mushrooms for beginners to learn. Chef Robin will talk about special cooking and preservation methods for wild mushrooms as well. Great for kids […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
