Apple Festival 2025: Get Your Tickets!

Apple Festival 2025 is coming back at UBC Botanical Garden on October 18 & 19! 🍎 Don’t miss your spot at the Apple Festival Tasting Tent! This is your last chance to sample 50+ B.C. apple varieties side by side—a highlight of Apple Festival 2025 on October 18 & 19 at UBC Botanical Garden. Tickets are almost gone, so grab yours today before they disappear!

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34 Years Strong: The Fall Family Weekend

Tradition at Apple Festival

For 34 years, UBC Botanical Garden’s Apple Festival has been the ultimate family weekend destination. On October 18–19, the Garden transforms into an apple-lover’s paradise with 50+ B.C.-grown apple varieties, live sweet and savoury cooking demos, the new Apple Cider Garden, and a Children’s Area packed with crafts, games, and even a giant leaf pile. Crunch, sip, and play your way through this beloved autumn tradition—fun for all ages and a celebration of the season you won’t want to miss. Read More Here!

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Top 5 Things You Should Know:

World's First Mushroom Powered Toilet at

UBC Botanical Garden

UBC Botanical Garden has just unveiled something you probably never expected to get excited about: a toilet. But this isn’t just any toilet, it's a living experiment using fungi as a catalyst for sustainable design. MycoToilet rethinks waste as a resource to explore how biodiversity can shape the future of green infrastructure. Read more for five fascinating things you’ll want to know about this first-of-its-kind innovation.

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Introducing... 'Garden Ecologies':

A Podcast On All Things Garden

Garden Ecologies is a podcast series from UBC Botanical Garden that explores innovative ecological practices and the benefits of taking experimental, open-ended approaches to gardening. Each episode features a conversation with a horticulturist at the garden about their philosophy, methods, and how their work contributes to the garden as an educational space. Learn about practices such as creating pollinator meadows, chop-and-drop, and living mulches, as well as the lessons learned along the way.

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Events and Activities

Shop and the Garden Centre

Visit The Shop and the Garden Centre:

UBC Botanical Garden, 6804 SW Marine Drive
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 4:30pm

Quiet bench at UBC Botanical Garden with fall foliage

Visit
UBC Botanical Garden

Explore the world of wild-collected
plants from around the globe
Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00am - 4:30pm
Closed Mondays
(Open on October 18 and 19 11:00am - 4:00pm for Apple Festival)

View looking across the pond at the bridge at Nitobe Memorial Garden

Visit
Nitobe Memorial Garden

Experience harmony in nature at
Nitobe Memorial Garden
Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00 am - 4:30pm
Closed Mondays

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