by SOYL Youth | Mar 3, 2016 | Announcement
It’s been a long winter. If I measure the nutritional gap in my diet between last Salad Box received, 2015 season, and First Salad Box to be received, 2016 season, it’s been a capital “W” Winter, in the Game-of-Thrones-ish sense of the word. Last summer and well into...
by SOYL Youth | Nov 4, 2015 | Stories from the Field
The end. The end, of sowing. The beginning, of something new. ~~~~~ Last week was our last harvest day as Schoolyard Farm Interns. 7.5 months – gone, just like that! But, oh, the life that’s grown through the cracks and open spaces of the...
by SOYL Youth | Oct 2, 2015 | Stories from the Field
It’s a Pro-D (professional development) Day at David Thompson today. Oh, how calm it is. ~~~~~ Harvest New Guess what? I got my rainbow carrots photo! These past two weeks, we’ve had a bounty of these colourful root veggies. I can’t help but be in...
by SOYL Youth | Sep 18, 2015 | Stories from the Field
“I hate change.” Hanne and I are wheeling back from the compost bin just before lunch. “I LOVE change!” Hanne exclaims. Sometimes I wish that I, too, had a slightly stronger predilection for change and transition. I remember this brief...
by SOYL Youth | Sep 3, 2015 | Stories from the Field
It’s on cold, wet days like these that I am thankful for the standing water in my tub that drains at the speed of a drunken tortoise. I am thankful for the extra moments of lapping warmth that my numb feet get to soak in. I stop, and I stand for a minute to...
