Growing Food, Youth, and Community
Fresh Roots is cultivating educational farms and place-based programs where youth develop healthy relationships with food, land and community through growing and sharing food that nourishes themselves, their communities and the planet!
Sustainable Farming, Experiential Learning, and Youth Leadership
Farming
Sustainable schoolyard farms grow veggies, flowers, and more! Click to learn…
Learning
Hands-on experiential learning and leadership development for kids, youth, and the community. We hope you’ll…
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Help us Bloom!
At Fresh Roots, we’re working hard to diversify what we grow — celebrating seasonal, local food grown in healthy, living soil. To do this, we are making two big essential upgrades to the farm…and we need your help to bring them to life!
Fresh Roots’ Harvest Celebration : Join our free family-friendly event!
You're invited to Fresh Roots' annual Harvest Celebration on October 8, 2025! Vancouver Technical Secondary Schoolyard Farm (2600 East Broadway – behind the school) Wednesday, October 8, 4–7 PM Free Admission! At Fresh Roots, we grow thousand of pounds of...
Camp Fresh Roots: A Week in the Life of a Summer Camp Co-Director
As an undergraduate student at UBC studying marine ecology, teaching kids about local, land-based food systems and their personal connections to agriculture was not exactly on my academic bucket list. However, as a life-long Girl Guide and summer camp attendee, as...