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We continue to share new Small Grant School Stories with you this Fall and Winter. These short stories offer a peak into the inner workings of a day at a #TEG small grant school, as well as being a repository of all the…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: BCed, Environmental Youth Alliance, EYA, John Oliver Secondary, local agriculture, School Gardens, Small Grant School Story, small grants, TEGS13, Think & Eat Green @ School, UBCLFS, Urban Agriculture, urban gardens, Vancouver Schools, Video, Youth
Each week we share a new Small Grant School Story. These stories offer a peak into the inner workings of a day at a #TEG small grant school, as well as being a repository of all the information we have gathered while working…
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Category: Slider, Slideshow, Uncategorized
Tags: BCed, Flickr, IEAT, Nicole Read, Project CHEF, School Gardens, SFEAT, Sir Wilfred Laurier Annex, Small Grant School Story, small grants, Think & Eat Green @ School, urban gardens, Vancouver Schools, Video, VSB, Youth
Read this great story about a new garden initiative underway, lead by Jarai youth living in Vancouver attending Vancouver School Board schools. The project broke ground April 2 at Moberly School and “promises to yield fruits and vegetables enough to…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: BCed, community, Education, Gardening, local agriculture, Moberly, School Gardens, Urban Agriculture, urban gardens, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver Schools, Vancouver Sun, Youth
The HEE2 (Home Economics: Human Ecology and Everyday Life) Master of Education cohort offered by the University of British Columbia is very close to having the right number of students for the cohort to go ahead as planned in September,…
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On the morning of the Wednesday edition of the Summer Institute, Cyprien Lomas, Duncan McHugh and Nathan Moes led a short workshop entitled “Discovering and Sharing the stories from your Garden.” Here on Thursday, we present one of the fine…
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The rain provided a wet reminder that we live in Vancouver, but it has relented as the 2012 Summer Institute participants headed outside into the Orchard Garden. And of course the amazing lineup of workshops and people presenting and attending…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Andrew Riseman, BCed, Cooking up Curriculum, Education, Irrigation, Market Gardens, Metro Vancouver, Orchard Garden, Outdoor learning, Professional Development, Schedule, School Gardens, Summer Institute, Susan Gerofsky, Sustainability, teg, TEGS12, Think & Eat Green, Think & Eat Green @ School, UBC, Vancouver School Board, Watering, WIll Valley
When the sun is shining, the clouds are giving shade, seeds are in the ground, and sprouts are breaking through the earth…it’s time to celebrate. On a sunny Thursday last week, dozens of eager students at Queen Elizabeth Elementary poured…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: BCed, City of Vancouver Greening Grant, Education, Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society, Market Gardens, Natasha Tousaw, Queen Elizabeth Elementary, School Gardens, Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, SPEC, TD Friends of the Environment, teg, Think & Eat Green @ School, Urban Agriculture, Vancouver School Board, Vegetable Songs
. Colleen Kimmett, writer for The Tyee tells the story of the fine work being done at Grandview/¿uuqinak’uuh Elementary in her recent feature “How Grandview Elementary Fills up Student Plates.” In it she documents the efforts of numerous community partners working together to…
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Tags: ¿uuqinak'uuh Elementary, BCed, Brent Mansfield, farm to cafeteria, Farm To School, Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society, Grandview, Healthy Eating, Hungry students, Public Education, School Food Systems, teg, The Tyee, Think & Eat Green, Van Tech, Vancouver, Vancouver School Board