UBC Botanical Garden provides educational programming, learning experiences, and resources to a diverse range of audiences on myriad topics, including plant and animal biodiversity, botany & conservation, sustainability education, food security, gardening and more. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to make these supports more accessible.
Please click on the following drop-down menus for resources by demographic.
Did you know that as a UBC community member, you receive free entry to UBC Botanical Garden? Reserve your entry time here.
Garden resources
Grow Green Live Series: Watch the livestream series by Metro Vancouver to explore garden-related topics with guest experts including from the Garden. Topics include food gardening, fall harvesting, lawn alternatives, and Vancouver trees.
Bird Brochure: Have you noticed the birds that fly and nest around UBC? Get tips on birdwatching, why birds are important to our ecosystems and how to help protect them in this brochure. Get a sneak peek at the beautiful birds that can be seen at UBC and the Garden too!
Food Brochure: Learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share delicious produce, nutrition values, and how to reduce food waste in this beautifully illustrated food and nutrition guide.
Biodiversity Brochure:
Garden Explorer: Learn more about the plants at the Garden without even visiting the grounds. This digital repository documents the living collections of plants at UBC Botanical Garden. Use the Map or the self-guided Tours to learn information about plants at the Garden.
Grow Green Guide: A guide to eco-friendly lawns and gardens in Metro Vancouver.
Gardening Tips by Egan Davis: YouTube playlist
TreeApp
Additional resources
Garden resources
Local Gardens Growing Global Goals Story Map: Learn how UBC Botanical Garden incorporates international sustainability goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals into Garden tours in this interactive toolkit for garden educators.
Biodiversity Brochure:
Bird Brochure: Interested in birds? Get tips on birdwatching, why birds are important to our ecosystems and how to help protect them in this brochure. Get a sneak peek at the beautiful birds that can be seen at UBC Botanical Garden too!
Food Brochure: Learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share delicious produce, nutrition values, and how to reduce food waste in this beautifully illustrated food and nutrition guide.
Biodiversity Brochure:
Field School: UBC Botanical Garden Sustainable Communities Field School aims to deliver interactive sustainable education to diverse audiences from youth to organizations.
Garden Explorer: This database is a digital repository for the documented living collections of plants at UBC Botanical Garden. Use the Map or the self-guided Tours to learn information about plants at the Garden.
TreeApp
Additional resources
eBird: Peruse an online database of recently sighted birds in Canada that is regularly updated by bird surveyors on behalf of citizen science. Areas include Metro Vancouver, UBC Botanical Garden, and much more.
UBC Camps - Garden Delights: Sign up for this camp weaves themes of sustainability and conservation throughout daily activities, enhancing campers’ connection to the outdoors, plant life and the living insects and animals that inhabit garden spaces.