Contact Information
- Address: 1432 Brunette Ave, Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3K 6X5
General Information
Fresh Roots is a non-profit organization working with school communities towards Good Food For All: everyone deserves access to healthy food, land, and community. We work towards this vision by cultivating engaging gardens and programs that catalyze healthy eating, ecological stewardship, and community celebration. Since 2011 we have grown the first schoolyard market gardens in Canada, fostered leadership and employment training through schoolyard farm programming, offered food literacy professional development for BC’s educators, distributed delicious, freshly grown food into schools and local communities, and provided an inspirational voice in our community.
We have partnered with Suwa'lkh School since 2017 in the expansion and maintenance of the Earth Spirit Healing Forest and Garden. On a seven-acre forest (featuring a salmon-bearing stream), youth are learning how to steward land as it has been done since time immemorial. First working to remove invasive species and then learning to propagate native plants, foods, and medicines, students and SOYL participants with the support of Fresh Roots staff reactivate the forest by introducing the plants back into the forest. Youth are learning how to grow their own food and to help bring it into the school food program.
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School Food
What region do you serve: Lower Mainland
How do you provide food literacy education:
- At the school
- Field trip / in the community
- Educational resources / curriculum documents
Services
- Supplying local food
- Teaching/Resources - growing food
- Teaching/Resources - cooking
- Teaching/Resources - food systems
- Teaching/Resources - nutrition
- Teaching/Resources - food justice
- Teaching/Resources - Teacher training