IT’S THYME to Grow Food & Community!
✨ REASON #1 to donate to Fresh Roots this giving season: Growing Food & Community ✨ DONATE HERE: https://freshroots.ca/its-thyme-year-end-fundraiser/ Introduction As we near the end of the 10th anniversary of Fresh Roots’ schoolyard farms, it’s THYME...
Hello from Norquay – The Life Cycle of the Norquay Fieldhouse
By Vivian Cheung, Operations & Digital Engagement Specialist And just like that, another growing season has passed by at Fresh Roots. If you missed my pre-season Norquay fieldhouse reflections, you can read them HERE. Although many associate the life of Fresh...
2023 SOYL Stories
By Carolina Diaz, 2023 SOYL Facilitator Vancouver The impact of SOYL, which stands for Sustainable Opportunities for Youth Leadership, is easy to measure in the number of participants in the program or the kilograms of food harvested and distributed. However, it is...
We are looking for our next Executive Director!
Dear Community, It is with deep gratitude that we share the news of Alexa’s departure as Executive Director. Alexa has been the roots of Fresh Roots for the past three years, bringing stability, sustainability, and focus in a time of change and uncertainty. The Board...
ReFeed Canada
By Tathali Urueta-Ortiz, Youth Empowerment Manager It is the beginning of the fall, and at Fresh Roots, we are reflecting on all the summer learning experiences! This year, Fresh Roots is partnering with ReFeed Canada, a Canadian company that focuses on repairing the...
Youth Led Native Garden at Coquitlam Heritage
By Jaimie Rosenwirth, Suwa’lkh Lead This spring for Science Odyssey, we partnered with Coquitlam Heritage at Mackin House. Check out the video below! We worked with the Suwa’lkh School leadership class to set up a native plant garden at Mackin House near their...
How to Cook Outside with Kids
By Andrea Lucy, Experiential Learning Program Lead Cooking with kids can be chaotic, fun, challenging, exhausting, and rewarding. Not every recipe will turn out perfectly; vegetables will be oddly cut and measurements may be skewed, but that’s okay! It’s the...CBC’s LunchLAB film highlights Canada’s opportunities and responsibilities to advance student health and wellbeing
CBC’s LunchLAB film highlights Canada’s opportunities and responsibilities to advance student health and wellbeing Summary LunchLAB, an innovative school food program developed by members of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, is featured in a new CBC...