Gardening In The Rain!

The Day started off dreary and damp, with a game of Handshake murderer to get us moving and laughing. It was especially funny when everyone died right after I shook their hand, even though I was NOT the murderer. Whatever, it was fun. After the fun and games, it was...

Just Like Your Great-Grandma Used to Make

On our third community day everyone met up at Van Tech and leaned about food processing which meant lots of cooking, food and most importantly eating! Milling grain is something that most in this generation never think about but we got to try it out first hand turning...

Intense Weeding

We started the day off in the Fresh Roots Garden of David Thompson. We did some weeding in the carrot club garden by using shovels and forks. The weeds were difficult to pull out and there were clumps of soil at the bottom but in the end we managed to pull most of...

Bombastic Building

July 10, 2015 – First day at Churchill We began our first day at Churchill with a game. It’s kind of hard to explain but it involved a lot of bunny hopping and shoelace tying. We next got on with building our new bed and trellis. We got to saw through some planks and...

Welcome to SOYL 2015

Flashback to our very first day! Here are details of our very first day of SOYL, way back 6 weeks ago. Oh the nostalgia! WELCOME TO SOYL 2015. The adventure has begun. Wednesday July 18 was the first day of the SOYL program, and we started off with a field trip to the...