Fresh Roots in Metro
Southlands Farm has horses, pigs, chickens and its own market. Sole Food employs people with limited opportunities and grows food in vacant urban spaces. Fresh Roots uses farming as a way to engage young learners. The city’s farms offer a diverse range of locally...
New Volunteer Postings – Support SOYL Youth this Summer
Fresh Roots and UBC Faculty of Education’s Intergenerational Landed Learning program have been excitedly collaborating and planning to produce our most exciting year of SOYL youth programming yet! The SOYL summer employment and leadership program empowers...
VSB’s Fresh Roots Schoolyard Market Gardens Named BC’s Young Social Innovators 2017
Fresh Roots and the VSB is Recognized as Social Innovators Social innovators from all sectors came together in Vancouver for the BC Social Innovation Youth Awards, a joint partnership between the government of British Columbia and RADIUS SFU, held at The Imperial...
Fresh Roots Famous Salad Dressing
How do you get kids to eat their veggies? Just add a drizzle of our famous salad dressing! The secret ingredient: nutritional yeast. It tastes a little cheesy without the dairy, a little nutty without the nuts, a little salty without the salt, and all around tasty....
Field Poetry – Wet!
staying dry is easy Wear Plastic Don’t Move If you move while wearing plastic – you get s(wet) If you stay put or move without plastic you get wet. Therefore, don’t move and wear plastic!
Salad Boxes Are Coming.
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...
Hello from Farmer Charlotte
Howdy Everyone! Charlotte here, the incoming Fresh Roots Farm Manager! I am elated to be joining the Fresh Roots team in growing Good Food and cultivating community! I’ll be working closely with Scott over the next few months as we begin the season (we’ve already...
Fresh Roots is Hiring a Schoolyard Farm Worker
The Position The Schoolyard Farm Worker grows Good Food For All. They are outside in the garden planting, harvesting, weeding, and acting as stewards of our ecologically managed urban farms. They will work under the supervision of our Farm Manager to ensure our...