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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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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Apparently Think & Eat Green @ School partners are not only thinking green, but thinking big as well. Big as in 1000 square meters of Asian greens, salad greens, beets, carrots, garlic, and a host of other vegetables sprouting on the…
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Tags: BCed, Brent Mansfield, Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society, Ilana Labow, Kevin Millsip, local agriculture, Market Gardens, School Gardens, Think & Eat Green, Think & Eat Green @ School, Urban Agriculture, Van Tech, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver Schools, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Technical School
“Seeing the garden throughout the whole year is an amazing transformation because of all the people that come through, the connections we make, and the joy we get in seeing our work culminate in the plants we grow.” —…
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Tags: Churchill Secondary, David Lloyd George Elementary, David Thompson Secondary, Dickens Elementary, Henderson Elementary, Magee Elementary, Market Gardens, Nootka Elementary, Queen Alexandra Elementary, School Gardens, teg, Think & Eat Green, Tyee Elementary, Urban Agriculture, Van Tech, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver Schools, VSB, Windermere Secondary
“I found this to be an amazing experience that talks the talk as well as walks the walk. You offer real, hands-on learning of ideas and techniques for the classroom that will promote social change. I have pages of notes…
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