by ops | Feb 28, 2024 | Announcement
Hello to all Fresh Roots’ wonderful friends & community partners, I’m reaching out today to ask for help. We have had to vacate our cooler space and need a solution ASAP so that we can operate our market and CSAs this season starting May 15th, 2024. Without...
by ops | Nov 3, 2023 | SOYL Stories
By Carolina Diaz, 2023 SOYL Facilitator Vancouver The impact of SOYL, which stands for Sustainable Opportunities for Youth Leadership, is easy to measure in the number of participants in the program or the kilograms of food harvested and distributed. However, it is...
by ops | Nov 30, 2022 | Press
BC Farmers’ Markets | June 2, 2022 Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StEN-ZHDIgM&t=11s “We get a deeper sense of where our food comes from by being able to grow it.” A breath of fresh air from life in the big city, urban farming is an...
by ops | Oct 27, 2022 | Farmer's Log, Stories from the Field
It’s time to wrap things up on the farm. We had our last market of the season on Saturday and final CSA pickup the week before. Even though our plants aren’t melting away like they usually do at this time of the year, they have stopped producing and are ready for...
by ops | Aug 17, 2022 | Farmer's Log, Stories from the Field
Here I am, about two weeks late, at 6:30am on a Friday making another attempt at August’s farm blog. It’s not that I don’t enjoy telling a story – those who know me or have sat at a table in one of the restaurants I’ve worked at have their ears coated in my poetic...