Fred Lee’s Social Network: Rooted in Goodness
Fred Lee’s Social Network: Rooted in Goodness by Fred Lee Last year’s Fresh Roots inaugural long table dinner was held inside the hallways of David Thompson Secondary School due to inclement weather. This year, Mother Nature cooperated and the sophomore...
It’s a Pizza Party!
There’s nothing like freshly rolled pizza doughs topped with fresh veg from the fields straight out of the oven! The SOYL youth at Farm Roots make a mean pizza, and all the leftover veg went into pasta sauce. We have been so busy growing, learning, and sharing...Fruit vs. Vegetable: Summer Botany Edition
Originally, I was going to write a long, detailed article about a new type of squash I encountered in the garden, however in the midst of telling a friend about this idea we got into a discussion about the technical differences between fruits and vegetables. The...
Student Bloggers Spotlight – Annika
Harvesting Some Veggies By Annika There has been a lot of harvesting recently. I think it is mainly because there are a lot of markets and senior centers coming up. My market and senior center days are in August so I will be the last one to go to a market or senior...
To Weed or Not to Weed
Having never worked on a farm in such a rainy and temperate climate, I was amazed at the amount of weeds the earth could produce in just a matter of days! Between the cultivated vegetables, our farms are overflowing with chickweed, dandelion, sheep sorrel, horsetail,...
Terrific Thursdays
Wow, week two is in the books; we can hardly believe it. Spent the day building tables, seeding beets and drying beans, and cooking our signature bean and warm potato salad recipe with blueberry, blackberry crumble for dessert. What a terrific Thursday!...
First week of SOYL
Week One A crazy awesome week has gone by here at the farm! Our SOYL program has begun and we are so excited to learn, grow, and share good food with our community. Here are the highlights of the week 🙂 Students cooking up the Farm Roots special, garic scape baked...