by Alexa Pitoulis | Dec 29, 2023 | Stories from the Field
✨REASON #10 to donate to Fresh Roots this giving season: Climate Resilience!✨ DONATE HERE: https://freshroots.ca/its-thyme-year-end-fundraiser/ Introduction What is the recipe to build the sustainable, inclusive, resilient communities of the future? We can’t just...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Dec 13, 2019 | Press
Marc Schutzbank, who heads the Fresh Roots student-farming programs, received $13,000 from charity-funding Give A Damn founder Martin McNish. By MALCOLM PARRY / PNG for the Vancouver Sun DAMN RIGHT: Odlum Brown portfolio manager Martin McNish and others gave charity...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Oct 28, 2019 | Press
Food Tank: September 2019 School meals can be one of the most important sources of nutrition for children around the world. The U.N. World Food Programme estimates that nearly half of all schoolchildren in low- and middle-income nations — about 310 million kids — eat...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Oct 7, 2019 | Announcement, Stories from the Field
Fall is here, she announced her name And you can see her in this rain This is time to harvest crops and celebrate the bounty that drops. Although the season on the farm is slowing down, that’s just the time that Fresh Roots is busy in the classroom and working...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Sep 20, 2019 | Events, Stories from the Field
Pluck, Crush, Press, and Ingest! It’s the 8th annual East Van Apple Press Fest! We request of you to be our guests, And make this fest a great success. Come one, come all to this FREE event whose only purpose is to bring people together to make apple cider. This...