Pure and simple soap making workshop

Learn how to make vegetable-based soap at home through the first UBC Farm Growing Season workshop of 2011! This interactive workshop will leave you smelling great and ready to craft soap all year long. Soap making is a practical and fun skill to possess, and self-made soap is a memorable gift for special people in your life.

We are pleased to be able to offer this workshop in a venue with our neighbours at Tapestry Residence in Wesbrook Village.

January 20th  6pm-9pm

Location: Tapestry Residence

Cost: $48

To register:  http://soapmaking2011.eventbrite.com

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Flashback to fall!

Way back in November, Friends of the Farm went on a photo walkabout with a member of the UBC Farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program and a special farm visitor. Evidently, we didn’t get around to posting the images for quite a while. On the bright side, now you’ll get to remember some of the colours and smells of decomposing entities from the autumn!

Thanks to Esha, Seth, and third-year community service-learning student Cindy for their photography and excellent company.

Clusters of spider eggs nestled in the cob archway.

Cob bread oven, newly built this past summer!

“Ahoy, who tills there?”

¿Qué pasa, calabaza?

Poplars and research birdhouses.

Jocelyn sowing a cover crop by the sturdy new trellis system at the Urban Aboriginal Intergenerational Garden.

Any ID guesses for this common veggie gone to seed?

4th-year UBC Film Production students at work on their movie!

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