by Alexa Pitoulis | Apr 29, 2019 | Press, SOYL Stories, Stories from the Field
Don Davies is introducing legislation entitled the “School Food Program for Children Act,” requiring the Minister of Health, in consultation with provincial governments and other relevant stakeholders, to develop a school food program to ensure that all...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Dec 4, 2018 | Announcement, SOYL Stories, Stories from the Field
For the past few years, we’ve had a BIG PROBLEM. We’ve wanted to show you all of the awesome things that the youth have been digging into at our farms, but there’s no way we could jam EVERYONE onto the farms at once! Well, NOW we are thrilled to show...
by SOYL Youth | Jul 20, 2016 | SOYL Stories
This is the second week of SOYL and I’ve been having an excellent time! Throughout the program so far, I’ve made new friends and also got to learn more about gardening and farming. I hope further in the program I’ll be able to enhance friendships and...
by SOYL Youth | Jul 13, 2016 | SOYL Stories
SOYL has been a really fun experience thus far ( re: this is only my THIRD DAY doing SOYL ), and I’m so happy I took this great opportunity. There’s been a lot of gardening–weeding–and cooking, sharing stories and having laughs. It’s...
by Fresh Roots | May 13, 2016 | Announcement, SOYL Stories
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...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Aug 7, 2015 | SOYL Stories
Today, we started the day off at Churchill by weeding some small plants from the garden beds. A small little carrot seed, a demonstration carrot seed (For the kids workshop) has sprouted with our cucumbers! Who would have thought that the little girl would come out…...
