LifeCycles Project – Victoria, BC

Fruit Tree Project Orientation
2025-06-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
If you are interested in being a part of the Fruit Tree Project, please plan to attend this General Orientation Session, which is mandatory for all new volunteers, and those who have attended fewer than 3 picks in the past 2 years.
Please visit the Gleaning Hub (gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca) to sign up for this session! It will be available as a ‘shift’. You will receive a zoom link and reminder of the session closer to the date.

Seed Sorting Session
2025-06-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-10
We are hosting another seed sorting session at the LifeCycles Warehouse to help package our seed donations for the seed library revival! We’d love to see you there! Please email info@lifecyclesproject.ca if you have any questions and sign up on the Gleaning Hub for more details.

Welland Orchard Work Party
2025-06-23 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-19 10:00 - 12:00 | 1215 Stancil Ln, Victoria, BC V8Z 1R6, Canada
Come and lend a hand with taking care of Welland Orchard. Learn about fruit tree care, creating pollinator habitat and more! Snacks, refreshments and tools provided. You can find out more and register for this shift on the Gleaning Hub or by emailing welland@lifecyclesproject.ca

Annual General Meeting
2025-06-19 18:00 - 18:30
Come join us for the LifeCycles Project Society 2025 Annual General Meeting! Join us online on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM PDT to discuss our progress and plans for the future. This is your chance to connect with fellow members, hear exciting updates, and have your voice heard. Don’t miss out on this important event that shapes the direction of our organization. Mark your calendars and be ready to participate!
Sign up to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/kViUlsyCTaKDggcWbcBTug

Harvest Leader Orientation
2025-06-15 11:00 - 11:30
If you are interested in being a Harvest Leader, please plan to join the zoom session right after the General Orientation! This quick overview of the additional perks and requirements of a Harvest Leader will only be 30 minutes extra.
Please visit the Gleaning Hub (gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca) to sign up for this session! It will be available as a ‘shift’. You will receive a zoom link and reminder of the session closer to the date.

Fruit Tree Project Orientation
2025-06-15 10:00 - 11:00
If you are interested in being a part of the Fruit Tree Project, please plan to attend a General Orientation Session, which is mandatory for all new volunteers, and those who have attended fewer than 3 picks in the past 2 years.
Visit the Gleaning Hub (gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca) to sign up for this session! It will be available as a ‘shift’. You will receive a zoom link and reminder of the session closer to the date.

WELLAND ORCHARD TOUR RESCHEDULED
2025-06-15 08:00 - 17:00 | 1215 Stancil Ln, Victoria, BC V8Z 1R6, Canada
Please note that the Welland Orchard Tour date was originally listed incorrectly as June 15th, the June Orchard Tour was held instead on June 8th. Next Welland Orchard tour will be held on July 13th. Accurate information will always be found in the Eventbrite registration link for each event. Thank you for your understanding.

Seed Sorting Session #3
2025-06-02 14:00 - 16:00 | 808 Viewfield Victoria BC
We are hosting another seed sorting session on June 2nd at the LifeCycles Warehouse to help package our seed donations for the seed library revival! We’d love to see you there! Please email info@lifecyclesproject.ca if you have any questions and sign up on the Gleaning Hub for more details.

Basic Botany for Plant Identification
2025-05-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Welland Legacy Park & Community Orchard, 1215 Stancil Lane, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1R6, Canada
Come learn some basic botany and plant taxonomy designed to help you improve your plant identification skills

Workshop Description
Get your curiosity going, hone your observational skills, and become a plant detective! Come on out to Welland Orchard for this fun and informative workshop on using basic botany knowledge to improve your skills at noticing and identifying common plants of southern Vancouver Island including edible, ornamental, native, and introduced species.
This workshop will cover an introduction to plant biology and taxonomy that will help you to notice key features in plants to aid in their identification. The goal of this workshop is to help you use guide books and iNaturalist effectively, along with growing the number of plants you can identify.
Be sure to come dressed for the elements as this workshop will be held outdoors.
As there is limited parking available at the orchard, please bike, walk, bus or carpool if possible. We are located right on the galloping goose, and you are welcome to bring bikes into the orchard to lock them up safely.
If you are driving, there are 8 parking spots located at the end of stancil lane, 2 of which will be reserved as accessible spots for the duration of the workshop. Please be mindful of our neighbours and do not park in the large driveway on the south side of the street. Additional parking can be found along the street on High St and Eaton Ave.
About the Instructor
River (they/them) works for Lifecycles Project as the Welland Orchard Coordinator, as well as running their own landscaping business, Nightingale Gardens. They are passionate about increasing the resilience of urban and suburban landscapes through utilising plants native to these territories, increasing food security through integrating edible perennials and fruit trees into the landscape, and helping to increase connections to land through making gardening more possible and accessible.
Their background is in agriculture, with five seasons spent working on small-scale organic farms, as well as a Landscape Horticulture Certificate (Red Seal levels 1 and 2) from the Pacific Horticulture College. They have also spent several years facilitating group learning and activities, for both kids and adults, in a variety of environments.
Their family is primarily from Ireland, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and England. They were raised on kʷikʷəƛ̓əm territories (Coquitlam BC) and have been living on W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territories for the past 10 years. Their work is grounded in intersectional queer feminism, disability justice, and decolonization. They are queer, trans, and neurodivergent and have a lifelong love of fruit trees.

How to Register for this Event
This workshop is in person only. Please dress appropriately for all types of weather, as the workshop will be hosted outside in the orchard.
There are a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets available for folks who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC), as well as people who are facing significant financial barriers to registration. There are also free tickets available for seniors, thanks to funding from The New Horizons for Seniors Program.
LifeCycles Project Society is always working to learn more about, and breakdown, barriers that may exist in accessing our programming. We understand that these tickets are by no means an exhaustive look at systems of oppression that exist for people. We welcome your ideas and feedback as we work to continue learning.
Please contact us if you are no longer able to attend but hold a ticket so we can make your space available to someone else and work to process your refund.
You can also register for the event by calling our office at 250 383-5800 or via email by contacting welland@lifecyclesproject.ca

Accessibility
Access from the parking area off Stancil Lane is through a latching unlocked gate. There is a gravel/dirt path sloping downward from the gate that leads to a wide flat grassy area with picnic table seating. If you are coming from the Galloping Goose entrance, which also has a latching unlocked gate, you will find a gravel/dirt path that slopes upward to the wide flat seating area. This section of path has one small area with uneven exposed bedrock. The steepness of the path varies throughout the Orchard and is steepest at the top of the Orchard closer to the Stancil Lane entrance, and at the bottom between the Galloping Goose trail and the Orchard entrance. The pathway from the Galloping Goose to the entrance to the Orchard has several sharp turns.
The Orchard has a single-stall gender-neutral composting toilet facility on site with ramp access (and currently without transfer bars). The composting toilet is located below the flat area and toward the Galloping Goose entrance. There is a hand-washing station on site (without soap) but the water is not potable. Hand sanitizer is available inside the toilet.
The workshop will be held outside rain or shine, please dress appropriately for the weather. The seating provided is picnic benches. Please feel free to bring a cushion or your own folding chair, a limited number of cushions are available at the orchard. The workshop area is in dappled shade, depending on the time of the day.
There is access to potable water on site. Please bring your own water bottle.

Seed Show and Tell
2022-11-26 02:30 - 04:30 | Central Branch GVPL, 735 Broughton Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3H2, Canada
The Victoria Seed Library is hosting a seed show and tell! Come learn about seed saving, reserve or donate some seeds from our collection, and get some seeds from our community seed bin!
We’ll be in the courtyard of the Greater Victoria Public Library, excited to sow the seeds of knowledge!
If you want to reserve seeds, make sure to become a member of our library by attending the orientation on November 16th!

Victoria Seed Library; Member Orientation
2022-11-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
We have a Membership Orientation for the Victoria Seed Library coming up! It’s at 7:00pm on zoom, so if you’re interested in becoming a member, make sure to check out the eventbrite page and register for free!

Tree Appreciation Day
2022-11-06 04:00 - 06:00 | Beacon Hill Park, 100 Cook St., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Celebrate Tree Appreciation Day in Beacon Hill Park. Join City staff and local experts for a fall celebration of all things trees. Participate in tree tours, tree planting and moth banding demonstrations, kids’ nature activities, apple pressing, a tree health clinic and more.

Welland Orchard Cleanup
2022-11-04 03:00 - 07:00
This is a call out to all Welland volunteers who are interested in doing some weeding and winter clean up at the Orchard!
Now that we’ve had a some rain, it’s going to be easier to get some of those pesky weeds out of the ground!
We will be mainly focusing on the weeds and grasses that won’t be beneficial to creating a healthy root and mycelium (mushroom) network in the wood chipped areas around the trees. (We will go into some more information and reasons for this the day of!) But we will also be weed hunting everywhere eventually!
In addition to weeding, there are some specific trees we are looking to remove the leaves from that have fallen on the ground to help stop the spread of certain spores! So some raking and wheel barrowing will be needed as well!
Keep this in mind when thinking of signing up for this shift and be prepared to help RAIN or SHINE! Come layered up and ready for the weather!
Sign up for the shift on the Gleaning Hub!
