by Fresh Roots | Apr 20, 2022 | At Home Learning Resources, Experiential Learning
By Andrea Lucy, Experiential Learning Program Lead Hip hip hooray for Earth Day! On April 22nd, over 1,000,000,000 people around the world will take action to protect the planet. This 52nd annual Earth Day is a reminder to treat the planet with respect, kindness, and...
by Fresh Roots | Dec 1, 2021 | At Home Learning Resources, Experiential Learning
By Andrea Lucy, Experiential Learning Program Lead The farm is bursting with growth and food right now, but when visitors look around they tell me all they see is weeds. What is a weed? It’s a plant…just in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the farm,...
by Rowan Vriesema-Magnuson | Jun 28, 2020 | At Home Learning Resources, Recipes
Summer is here, school is out, and my team and I are gearing up for the start of Camp Fresh Roots. (We still have a few spaces left for this summer – come play with us!) And so the time has come to wrap up the Fresh Five. It has been a labour of love to create...
by Rowan Vriesema-Magnuson | Jun 21, 2020 | At Home Learning Resources, Recipes
Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Way back in April for our Flower Power week, I said we’d get to learn more about bumblebees and other pollinators, and that week is finally here! June 22-28 is Pollinator Week in Canada and the US, and with all the summer fruits...
by Rowan Vriesema-Magnuson | Jun 14, 2020 | At Home Learning Resources
I grew up in this corner of the world, the coastal Pacific Northwest, and did a lot of camping as a kid. One of my most favorite summer memories is picking bright red huckleberries growing on the nurse stumps dotting the campground. I don’t know when I learned...
by Rowan Vriesema-Magnuson | Jun 7, 2020 | At Home Learning Resources, Stories from the Field
This past week has been an emotionally intense one for many of us as protests continue to highlight the systemic racism in our communities, and those protests against police violence are met with violence in return. As an organization dedicated to Good Food for All,...
