by Alexa Pitoulis | Jul 8, 2015 | SOYL Stories
Flashback to our very first day! Here are details of our very first day of SOYL, way back 6 weeks ago. Oh the nostalgia! WELCOME TO SOYL 2015. The adventure has begun. Wednesday July 18 was the first day of the SOYL program, and we started off with a field trip to the...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Jul 8, 2015 | SOYL Stories
Our first day of official gardening started off right and sunny at David Thompson. (◕‿◕✿ We got to get our hands dirty right away by pulling some very enormous heads of garlic. They were so big they almost looked like onions. After that, we broke off into teams and...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Mar 30, 2015 | SOYL Stories
A couple of weekends ago, the SOYL family reunited for a Sauerkraut making workshop. The workshop was hosted by Andrea of Rooted Nutrition. Andrea taught us about the process of fermentation and we got to make our very own sauerkraut! Just for some context, Rooted...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Mar 3, 2015 | SOYL Stories
Applications for SOYL Youth Interns is now open: soyl internship 2015 APPLY NOW In lieu of SOYL Summer 2015 applications being open, we thought it could be helpful to give some personal insight into what the SOYL program actually means to our youth participants. We...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Jan 22, 2015 | SOYL Stories
The SOYL year started early with a trip to the Vancouver Winter Farmers Market. That’s right folks, Vancouver has a WINTER market! Located at the Nat Bailey Stadium (Main & 30th), the winter market is the largest of the Vancouver Farmer’s markets. At the market...