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Call For Small Grant Applications Now Open!

Think&EatGreen@School has set aside $35,000 to support school-based healthy and sustainable food system projects in Vancouver public schools in 2014-15. Preference this year is for applications that include a partnership with another elementary or secondary school, though all applications are…

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University Hill Elementary to Celebrate Opening of Courtyard Garden

Do you have a student enrolled at University Hill Elementary School? If so, you are cordially invited to the opening of their new courtyard garden, Monday April 22nd from 5-7pm! Bring your appetite, as the U-Hill Garden Committee will be…

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READ: School Garden Project Lead by Jarai Teens via the Vancouver Sun

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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Free Seed Swap this Saturday, April 6 from 1-3pm

Join Environmental Youth Alliance this Saturday, April 6 from 1-3pm in the Strathcona Community Garden for a FREE Seed Swap. More details about the Seed Swap can be found here.

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Excitement Underfoot at Tyee Elementary

Calculating the square footage required for one person to grow enough food for one year? All in a days (years) work for students at Tyee Elementary. Along with growing vegetables in their garden plots, composting organic material, watering, weeding, and…

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Think & Eat Green partner Fresh Roots winners of the VanCity Venture Challenge Competition

Ilana Labow, co-founder and director of Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society has been awarded the first VanCity Good Money Impact™ Venture Challenge competition, a initiative launched to help post-secondary students and recent post-secondary graduates grow businesses that are creating positive social…

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