Filling Garden Beds
Good news: we received a soil donation from the City of Vancouver’s Social Policy Department. Bad news: it was delivered far from our site! With shovels, wheel barrows and muscle, we managed to fill a few over the course of Sunday morning. – Sophie...
From the city comes a new generation of young farmers
From the city comes a new generation of young farmers by Jess Mackie November 20, 2017 Students grow food on a Fresh Roots farm in Vancouver. Photo: Fresh Roots. Farming is rooted deep in Dave Semmelink’s heritage. His father and grandfather were both farmers in South...Pre-Schoolers Explore
The preschoolers learned about bugs and creatures that might live in gardens. Together, we made salt-dough critters, placed them on the wood, toasted the wood with a blow-torch, then lifted them to reveal their shadows. The results were beautiful shadows of...