At the Wells-Barkerville Elementary School we are very excited and proud of our new School Greenhouse which we were able to build with the funding from Farm to School BC last summer. The Wells Community Garden has partnered with the School in previous years to grow potatoes (amoung other crops) at the Community Garden which […]
Telkwa School’s Farm to School grant was used to start up a fruit leather making project. We are a small school with just over 100 students from mixed rural and town families. We live in a part of the province which has frost from October to May (read that as WINTER for 5 months!) […]
Two classrooms began gardening in 2014. Good things grow and grow we did! This year we have five classrooms with 125 students enthusiastically pulling weeds, preparing beds with new soil, learning about bad bugs and good bugs, getting hands and clothes muddy during planting and selling starters at the community Spring Fair to raise money […]
This has been an exciting adventure and we are super proud of the progress we have made! First of all the decision to follow through and continue the process when we weren’t sure if this even was a possibility. The most valuable lesson so far learnt by the children was that building a garden is not […]
Parkway Proud! Here at Parkway Elementary we are proud of our students, teachers, parents and community. Everyone has pulled together to make our garden a success. Students have learned about plant life cycles, how to plant seeds, transplant them to the garden and how to care for them. With the advice of Ryan Foster, Food Foresters […]
Two years ago, a vision was hatched for a new program at my daughter’s school. It was to begin agricultural programming that would transform the community into a learning space about local food systems. St. Francis of Assisi School was the perfect location to begin such a program because it stood as a lone concrete […]
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh, “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today,” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing.” A. A. Milne It is our first year […]
Our Little/Big Idea We wanted to create a garden at Yarrow Community School. The idea was to help students and families know the importance (and the joys!) of eating and growing fresh, local, organic food, for their health, and the health of the planet. We wanted our garden to be an inviting, accessible growing space […]
Growing Smiles while Getting Dirty ~ This past year has brought tonnes of accomplishments with our Community Garden. We had 240 students participate in planting items, weeding, harvesting, and consuming their own produce. Each week all ten classes would take time to walk over to the Community Garden and complete maintenance and receive a lesson. […]
Our Farm to School Story at Logan Lake Secondary began with an idea to start a school garden and expanded into so much more. Some of our achievements over the past year include a successful school garden, growing microgreens, healthy lunch and breakfast programs, and school composting. It was very rewarding to see how successful […]