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Cool Thing We Want #270: Kickass Digs For Mason Bees Available At Cambie’s “Walrus”

“Mason” bees are those gorgeous wee blue ‘orchard’ types that do their best to pollinate our gardens every spring. Like most bees, they could use some help, so lend your neighbourhood pollinators a hand by rigging up some subsidized housing for them. Here is a great DIY house, but we’re digging this handcrafted job – made out of reclaimed wood – available Walrus on Cambie for $68. Go bees!

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  1. thanks guys! we love what ‘world reclaimed’ is doing. they put a lot of heart and soul into each piece – and we all know we could do with a whole lot more bees!

UBC Farm’s Spring Workshops Make a Strong Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty

A full run of practical, well-built sessions that move from soil to kitchen, giving you a reason to start something new.

2026 CSA Guide: The Best Produce Box Programs in Vancouver. Score Before It’s Too Late!

Looking for a CSA in Metro Vancouver? Our 2026 guide breaks down the best produce box and farm share programs, with pricing, pickup details, and honest recommendations.

We Want to Jetset to Montreal for the Menu Extra & Dan Climan Pop-Up This July

This summer the Montreal artist, who sports cred as an Emily Carr School of Art + Design graduate, is growing his food-art relationship with a series of lux, collab pop-up we can only dream of attending. Time to buy a lottery ticket!

We Want to Quench Our Thirst for Spring with KPU’s New 桂 Reverie Beer

Our appetite for tasty and creative craft beer is bottomless. So the moment news of what students enrolled in the Diploma in Brewing and Brewery OperationsKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have been brewing up lately landed in our inbox, we got awfully thirsty...