Delta students encouraged to get hands-on in the garden
Delta students encouraged to get hands-on in the garden Consider joining the Fresh Roots program this summer Delta Optimist article | Staff Writer | Apr 16, 2022 9:00 AM Calling Delta students – do you want to spend your summer making friends, working on your...
Schoolyard urban farming (BC Farmers’ Market Trail Stories)
BC Farmers’ Markets | June 2, 2022 Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StEN-ZHDIgM&t=11s “We get a deeper sense of where our food comes from by being able to grow it.” A breath of fresh air from life in the big city, urban farming is an...
Educational Farms To Grow Communities
October 06, 2022 Link to original article: https://modo.coop/blog/fresh-roots-educational-farms-to-grow-communities This last summer, the Fresh Roots team frequently travelled back and forth between East and South Vancouver, Coquitlam, and Delta for their weekly...
2022 Food Summit Reflections
By Jaimie Rosenwirth, Suwa’lkh Environmental Education Program Lead Back in September, I had the opportunity to go to the Canadian Food Centres Canada’s (CFCC) Food Summit, the first one since the pandemic started. With the help of a bursary, I was in Toronto for four...
FARMER’S LOG, SEED DATE OCTOBER 26, 2022
It’s time to wrap things up on the farm. We had our last market of the season on Saturday and final CSA pickup the week before. Even though our plants aren’t melting away like they usually do at this time of the year, they have stopped producing and are ready for...
National Truth and Reconciliation Day 2022
September 30th, 2022 will be the second official National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which is a federal holiday to honour residential school survivors and the children who did not return, as well as their families and communities. Like last year, Fresh Roots...
#SOYLyouth 2022 – Naiya
by Niyah Lalli, SOYL Delta Crew
#SOYLyouth 2022 – Audrey
by Audrey Sum, SOYL Suwa’lkh Crew A Foodie’s Insight: Community Eats at Suwa’lkh From a Foodie’s perspective, being part of the SOYL program allowed me to discover different meals and introduce vegetables from the local schoolyard garden in many ways to...