Apple Pressing in Alexander Park

Do you have an abundant source of apples you'd like to turn into delicious juice? Bring your own apples, and vessels and press them into delicious juice with the help of Compost Education Centre (CEC) staff and Hatchet and Seed staff!

Once you register for this event via eventbrite, we will send you more details on timing. You will be assinged a 15 minute slot and are expected to come during that window, but you do not need to be there the whole two hours!

Where the event is happening/Accessibility

This event is happening in Alexander Park which is bordered by Bay, Walnut, and Oregon Streets. We will be in the Southwest corner of the park near the fruit tree mini-orchard that CEC stewards. There are curb cuts to get on to the sidewalk from the street into Alexander park. We will be positioned on flat, soft, potentially wet depending on rain, turf grass. There is no bathroom on site.

How to Register for this Event

Please dress appropriately for all types of weather, we will be outside. If it's raining we will put up a tent to press the apples under.

The pressing is by donation, please consider the upper end of the scale if you can.

You must pre-register for this event. You can purchase a ticket through Eventbrite. You can also register for the event by calling our office at 250 386 9676 or via email by contacting [email protected]

You can receive a full refund (less the Eventbrite processing fee) up to 7 days before the workshop. To request a refund or switch your ticket, email [email protected].

VERY IMPORTANT: Please be in touch if you are no longer able to attend but hold a ticket so we can make your space available to someone else.

About the organization

The Compost Education Centre is located on unceded and occupied Indigenous territories, the land of the Lekwungen people— specifically the Xwsepsum and Songhees Nations. These nations are two of many, made up of individuals who have lived within the porous boundaries of what is considered Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Territory (Vancouver Island) since time immemorial. At the CEC we seek to respect, honour and continually grow our own understandings of Indigenous rights and history, and to fulfill our responsibilities as settlers, who live and work directly with the land and its complex, vital ecologies and our diverse, evolving communities.

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