by Fresh Roots | Mar 23, 2020 | Announcement
Dear Fresh Roots Community, Like many of you, we are closely following COVID-19 developments and taking steps to keep our team and all those we work with healthy. We hope you and yours are safe and well during this time. We wanted to share what’s happening here at...
by Alexa Pitoulis | Nov 25, 2016 | Press
Learning about Food, Sustainability, and Leadership on Schoolyard Farms by Nichole Bruce, SOYL Graduate When I accepted the placement at SOYL this summer, I didn’t quite know what to expect. Some of my friends had done it the summer before and said it was a lot...
by SOYL Youth | Jul 27, 2016 | Stories from the Field
On leaving room and creating space. On pruning and trellising. On learning about learning. ~~~~~ “They’re called ‘suckers’ because they suck energy from the plant. Also because they just suck.” (Gaelan, teaching a friend’s little...
by SOYL Youth | Nov 4, 2015 | Stories from the Field
The end. The end, of sowing. The beginning, of something new. ~~~~~ Last week was our last harvest day as Schoolyard Farm Interns. 7.5 months – gone, just like that! But, oh, the life that’s grown through the cracks and open spaces of the...
by SOYL Youth | Sep 18, 2015 | Stories from the Field
“I hate change.” Hanne and I are wheeling back from the compost bin just before lunch. “I LOVE change!” Hanne exclaims. Sometimes I wish that I, too, had a slightly stronger predilection for change and transition. I remember this brief...