by Fresh Roots | Jul 18, 2020 | SOYL Stories, Stories from the Field
A SOYL Summer- Part 2 As the 2020 SOYL (Sustainable Opportunities for Youth Leadership) wraps up another action-packed week or learning and growing together we are sharing the second installment in the three-part series written by four SOYL alumni from the summer of...
by Fresh Roots | May 20, 2020 | Announcement
Our fearless Interim Executive Director, Alexa Pitoulis, chats about all things Fresh Roots on The Conversation Lab with Don Shafer produced by CFRO FM (Co-op Radio Vancouver). Thanks so much for the opportunity to share a little bit about what we are up to these days...
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 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 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...
