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Gabor Maté and son in Vancouver this November

“If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” – Ram Dass Gabor Maté is a renowned pioneer on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship between stress and illness. For the last 3 years, Hollyhock has host …

2019 Feedback Form – Vancouver

2019 Feedback Form Your feedback is important to us and helps us grow. This form should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete. If you have any questions, feel free contact us. Thank you so much for your support! Which Hollyhock Vancouver program d …

Garden Tip: It’s “Hugel” Time

Towards the end of the season when we are cutting back all of the perennials and digging out the annuals we start creating a “Hugel” pile. This is basically a raised bed created out of garden scraps. Ideally woodier plant material is layered on the bot …

Vegan Gluten-Free Bread

We serve a couple thousand bellies each season at Hollyhock, and it isn’t always easy to satisfy all the diverse dietary needs. Our “side table” where guests with additional dietary restrictions can find options made just for them, is much more than ju …

Confronting Complicity: Blindspots and Bananas

I remember being a little girl growing up in London, Ontario. One of a handful of Asian families in the city – notable in high school because there was another ‘Lo’ family with lots of kids, and we were all interchangeable. I remember being called a ‘b …

The Joy of Missing Out

Have you ever attended an event just because you were afraid to miss out? FOMO – the fear of missing out – plagues many of us. It can seem like a no-win situation; the impossible inhuman task of doing “all the things,” all the time. Perhaps there’s ano …