City Farmer

Vancouver


Home of the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden, this fragrant, flower-strewn urban horticulture site is just a two-block walk from W 4th Ave. It's divided into several sections, including an organic food garden and a climate change adaptation garden. You can learn about composting and water-efficient gardening here (check the website for tours and classes) or just suck up the flowerage while you wander around with the busy bees.

Staffed by chatty volunteers, this is a good spot for green-thumbed visitors. The site also adjoins a disused rail corridor that's been transformed into the city's Arbutus Greenway, an 8.5km tree-fringed linear park that's a delightful city stroll.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Vancouver attractions

1. West 4th Avenue

0.2 MILES

This strollable smorgasbord of stores and restaurants may have your credit cards whimpering for mercy after a couple of hours. Since Kits is now a bit of…

2. Arbutus Greenway

0.3 MILES

A former disused urban rail line that's being transformed by the city into a cool linear park, this 8.5km-long flora-fringed walking and cycling route is…

3. Kitsilano Beach

0.57 MILES

Facing English Bay, Kits Beach is one of Vancouver's favorite summertime hangouts. The wide, sandy expanse attracts buff Frisbee tossers and giggling…

4. Kids Market

0.7 MILES

A kaleidoscopic mini shopping mall for under-10s (there's even a special child-size entrance door), the Kids Market is crammed with 25 family-friendly…

5. HR MacMillan Space Centre

0.72 MILES

Focusing on the wonderful world of space, admission to this kid-favorite museum includes a gallery of hands-on exhibits (don't miss the Mars section where…

6. Museum of Vancouver

0.72 MILES

The MOV serves up cool temporary exhibitions alongside in-depth permanent galleries of fascinating First Nations artifacts and evocative pioneer-era…

7. Vanier Park

0.73 MILES

Winding around Kitsilano Point toward Kits Beach, waterfront Vanier Park is more a host than a destination. Home to three museums, it's also the venue for…

8. Totem Pole

0.77 MILES

Almost hidden in a quiet corner of Granville Island, this 17m-high pole was erected in 1999 and was carved via the joint efforts of more than 800 people…