Fresh Five Ideas for At Home Learning #1
Welcome to the first edition of the Fresh Five! Hey there, friends. This is Kat, your friendly local Experiential Learning Manager. Wow, this is a different learning environment than we were expecting to be in this spring. I’m frankly devastated not to have you...
We’re Still Farming~A Fresh Roots COVID-19 Update
Dear Fresh Roots Community, Like many of you, we are closely following COVID-19 developments and taking steps to keep our team and all those we work with healthy. We hope you and yours are safe and well during this time. We wanted to share what’s happening here at...
City of Vancouver Proclaims March 12th, “The Great Big Crunch for Healthy School Food Day”
Unanimous support from Vancouver City Council ignites new support for a Universal School Food Program. Special thanks to Councillor Rebecca Bligh for bringing the motion forward and the tireless work of the BC Chapter for Healthy School Food for rallying organizations...
The Great Big Crunch: Making Noise for Healthy School Food!
The Great Big Crunch: Making Noise for Healthy School Food! For Immediate Release March 3, 2020 Vancouver, BC– The Great Big Crunch is a national movement and annual moment of anti-silence in which students, teachers, parents and others passionate about food join the...
Why become a Fresh Roots Veggie Box Subscriber this summer?
Do you get a little thrill when you bite into a freshly picked, ultra-local carrot? Is the idea of creating urban spaces for learning, sharing and connecting something that excites you and makes your heart grow a size or two? How about being part of a community that...
Fresh Roots Receives 13,000 from Give A Damn Charity!
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...
Fresh Roots Named Top 16 Innovators in School Meal Programs
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...
Welcome to Fall!
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...