Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

HCP Kids - Garden Nature Academy Spring 2025
2025-04-24 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-01 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-08 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-15 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-22 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-29 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-05 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-12 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver) | Horticulture Centre Of The Pacific, 505 Quayle Rd., Victoria, BC, V9E 2J7, Canada
The Garden Nature Academy is a half day program on Thursday's. The outdoors offers safe and seasonal opportunities for your preschooler to explore
through play, games, songs, and activities! These outdoor sessions will include time in our vegetable garden, as well as numerous pathways, and native plant forest areas to
explore. The small group sizes and our experienced nature educators help to create a nurturing and engaging environment for young children to learn, play and grow. Ages 3 to 6 years

Dates: Thursdays Apr 3 to Jun 19
Time: 9:30 am to 12:00
Fees: $300 or $240 with a Family Membership
Register: Online or Call 250-479-6162

HCP Home Learners - Interconnectedness: Our Keystone Species
2025-05-01 13:15 - 14:45, 2025-05-08 13:15 - 14:45, 2025-05-15 13:15 - 14:45
Sustainability comes in lots of different forms. Let's begin a journey of discovery as we explore methods of producing our own food, the importance of soils, and how pollinators play a crucial role in this process. This 3-part series will include lots of hands-on planting of seeds and transplants for take away as well as providing a foundation for the better understanding of food growing systems and their interconnections. For Grades 4 to 8

Dates: May 1, 8 & 15
Time: 1:15 - 2:45 pm
Fee: $90 or $75 with Family Membership
Register: Online or Call 250-479-6162

HCP Kids - Garden Club Spring 2025
2025-05-03 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-10 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-17 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-24 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-31 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-06-07 09:30 - 11:30
Do you know a child or youth who loves the outdoors and thrives in the garden? Our HCP Kids' Garden provides many opportunities for land-based engagement activities, including seed starting and propagation, planting, garden maintenance, pollinator habitats, and so much more. Each weekly class will have us in this amazing teaching garden where we grow our own food crops. Hope you can join us with your pre-k learner or drop-off (or join) your school age child. There are lots of takeaways, including seeds, transplants and more! Please pack your child's own garden gloves if you have some and bring along a water bottle (and snack if needed:) Ages 3 to 14 (Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult)

Dates: Saturday's, March 8 - June 7, 2024 (10 Weeks - no classes March 15, 22 or 29, or April 26)
Times:

Preschool (3 to 5): 9:30 am - 11:00 am
School Age (6 to 14): 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Fees :

Preschool (3 - 5): $160.00 or $140.00 with a Family Membership
School Age (6 - 14): $180.00 or $160.00 with a Family Membership

Register: Online or call 250-479-6162

HCP Kids - Pro-D Day Camps 2025
2025-05-16 09:00 - 16:00
These non-instructional day camps feature an outdoor program that includes time in our very own HCP Kids Teaching Garden where we grow food, learn to support natural systems and enjoy the many wilderness areas surrounding us!

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Fee: $45
Dates 2025:

Friday - May 16

Register by Clicking on the Date or call 250-479-6162
Camp is fully booked: registration for waitlist only

HCP Kids - Tea Brewing May 2025
2025-05-24 13:30 - 15:00
The first credible record of brewing tea dates back to the 3rd Century AD. Fast forward to 2025 and the cold brewing of teas made with garden botanicals in our HCP Kids' Garden. We have been brewing our harvested flowers and herbs safely, using cold brew methods for years and our participants love to sample and create their own personalized blends. We will also be sampling and adding to commercial blended teas such as mint and green. This is also a fun way to introduce children to basic plant identification as we learn to recognize plant families for their features and their beneficial uses. Ages: 6+ Limited to 10 participants

Date: 24 May 2025
Time: 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Fee: $35/child and $30/family membership
Registration: Online or call 250-479-6162

HCP Kids - Father's Day Pizza Planter
2025-06-07 13:30 - 15:00
Celebrate Dad this Father's Day with a planter designed just for him! These "Gardens on the Go" will feature plants that mature to produce crops for making pizza! As we plant, there will be sharing to provide an introduction into container gardening, as well as a walk through of plant maintenance. 4+ years (under 6 with an adult)

When: Saturday June 7, 1:30-3:00pm
Fees: $40/planter (All), and $35/planter for (Family Membership Holders)
Register: Online or call 250-479-6162

HCP Kids - Pollinator Day
2025-06-22 09:00 - 14:00
Family and community friendly activities in The Gardens at HCP on Sunday June 22 (9:00 am – 2:00 pm) will be featured to celebrate the amazing role that pollinators of all shapes, species, and sizes contribute to our planet.

Visit Rocky Point Bird Observatory's touch tables featuring bird pollinators and other interesting activities.
Attend Wild Birds Unlimited free talks and see their pollinator display of products.
Visit the Victoria Master Gardener Association information and question table featuring lots of pollinator friendly planting suggestions.
Join local children's author Cynthia Mackey for a reading of her newly published book “If a Butterfly Lands on Your Toe”. Also, Cynthia will also be available for a Meet the Author open forum.

HCP Kids - Full Day Camp Jun 30 to Jul 4
2025-06-30 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-02 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-03 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-04 09:00 - 16:00
Full Day Camp July 2025 in Junior Master Gardener plot!
The program is 9-4 daily and includes active gardening in our own HCP Kids Teaching Garden where we grow food crops.
For children between 5 and 12 years (School age)

Dates: June 30 to July 4 (no Camp July 1)
Times: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Fees: $180.00 or $160.00 with a Family Membership
Register: Online or Call 250-479-6162

This Camp is fully booked; waitlist is available

HCP Kids - Full Day Camps July 7 to 11
2025-07-07 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-08 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-09 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-10 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-11 09:00 - 16:00
Full Day Camp July 2025 in Junior Master Gardener plot!
The program is 9-4 daily and includes active gardening in our own HCP Kids Teaching Garden where we grow food crops.
For children between 5 and 12 years (School age)

Dates: July 7 to July 11
Times: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Fees: $225.00 or $200.00 with a Family Membership
Register: Online or Call 250-479-6162

Camp is fully booked: registration for waitlist only
