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Our incredible harvest at the youth garden in Richmond Hill! Pounds of organic carrots, yellow pear tomatoes and lettuce straight from their own backyards! Be sure to watch out for our next post to see what delicious dishes we created with our loot!
To learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
This evening was spent staking giant tomatoes and harvesting tons of veggies! Our lead garden coordinator, Nicole, toured our newest SFC team member, Stef, around the Aurora school gardens, working for hours with a few members of the community, cleaning up the beds and munching on veggies! Those who helped out went home with armfuls of beans, tomatoes and kale! What a great way to spend the evening :)
To learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
The bean harvest at Charles Darrow in Aurora has been a great one! The kids are always so delighted to harvest fresh veggies straight from their own backyard! It’s amazing to see how their little seeds have grown!
To get involved and learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Today at the Growing to Give Garden, the newest Seeds For Change interns participated in a training about compost! We discussed the importance of compost, varieties of composters and how to best utilize the spaces that we are given. Following a talk from Kyle from York Region Waste Management, our lead Garden Coordinator, Nicole, taught the interns how to lead a ‘Bug Detective’ workshop which allows them to teach kids about the insects that maintain our garden and the microorganisms that take care of our soil!
Following our amazing harvest Friday night at Crescent Village, our evening continued with a delicious cooking workshop led by our lead garden coordinator, Nicole. The participants feasted on a spicy, summer nasturtium salad with fresh, edible flowers and mixed greens from our garden, a savoury tomato bruschetta and a sun dried tomato pesto pasta. At first the kids were sceptical about all the tomatoes but once the tasty dishes were created, they quickly gobbled them up! Now the kids have three new recipes to make at home using the veggies that they are learning to grow in the garden!
We ended the evening with cupcake baking and decorating to celebrate our wonderful youth coordinator, Jessica, on her last day at the youth garden! We already miss her but we are wishing her the best of luck with her new job in Niagara!
To learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Yesterday’s harvest at Crescent Village! It’s so incredibly rewarding to leave the garden with armfuls of lettuce, peas and edible flowers when just weeks before, we were amending the soil and sowing organic seeds.
Make sure to check out our next post to see how we used our harvest in a four course, delicious cooking workshop!
To learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Before our soil exploration workshop on Thursday night at the YOU 177 Legacy Garden in Whitchurch-Stouffville, participants had the opportunity to explore the garden, stopping to smell, touch and taste the incredible edible plants that fill the beds! To learn more about this specific garden, visit http://www.legacyproject.org/you177/ws/garden.html
To learn more about York Region Food Network, Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org or yrfn.ca
Did you know that there are more microorganisms in a handful of soil than there are people on Earth? If you think soil is just dirt, think again! Last night, our lead Garden Coordinator, Nicole and two of our summer interns, Steph and Erin led a soil exploration workshop with the members of the Whitchurch Stouffville YOU 177 Legacy Garden. Toddlers, teens, parents and grandparents all learned about what makes up our soil while making a delicious recipe!
To learn more about this specific garden, visit http://www.legacyproject.org/you177/ws/garden.html
To learn more about York Region Food Network, Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org or yrfn.ca
Every Wednesday, York Region Food Network hosts an amazing community lunch program with fresh, hot food, with the help of their incredible volunteer chefs, Beulah and Liz! Here are some pictures of the program leader, David and one of our volunteer chefs, Beulah, working their magic in the kitchen! This past Wednesday, we had a feast of fresh fruit, crepes, banana bread and a delicious vegan curry.
And that’s not all! The YRFN also has amazing urban agriculture programs, a Good Food Box program and more! They work to promote food security and sustainability around York Region.
To learn more about the York Region Food Network and their programs, visit http://yrfn.ca/
We are seeing some amazing progress at our Rick Hansen garden! Tomatoes, kale, lettuce, beets and more are growing quickly and getting eaten up by happy families!
The elementary school students are taking great care of the garden over the summer. The families are just as dedicated as they were during the year!
It is such an awesome sight to see the children rolling up on their scooters and bikes to munch on the fresh, organic kale that we have growing! What a great way to spend the summer!
We are absolutely loving the partnerships that are going on between all of our Seeds For Change gardens! Today, the participants at our Seniors’ Garden in Richmond Hill shared some of their baby carrot harvest with our youth garden at Crescent Village! The kids absolutely loved seeing the freshly pulled carrots and marvelled over the size of the smallest ones.
What a great community!
To learn more about Seeds For Change and our programs, check out www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Here are some great pictures from round two of flower planting at Crescent Village! We had such a hard working group come out to participate and thanks to them, our garden is looking more beautiful than we ever thought possible!
For more information on Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
The edible garden at the seniors’ home in Richmond Hill is absolutely thriving! It was exciting to see the promising yellow flowers on our tomato plants and the cucumber seedlings growing strong!
Here we can see our seniors harvesting some persian herbs and helping the cucumbers climb on rope through the trellises.
For more information on Seeds For Change and our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Last week, our Seeds For Change team had an amazing time with the youth at Crescent Village last week planting their flower garden! We spent the whole afternoon learning about pollinator attracting plants, planting flower gardens and playing outside in the sun!
The youth flexed their muscles and their creativity when our wheelbarrow was unavailable and our watering cans were no where to be found! We used grocery carts with bins to carry soil and repurposed cement buckets to use as our watering cans.
To learn more about how to get involved with Seeds For Change or to learn more about our programs, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org
Here is an awesome write up from Wesley Christian Academy on our workshop last week with Rainbow Plate! The students LOVED eating a rainbow and we loved watching them learn about and new fruits and veggies through all of their senses!
“On Friday, June 19th, the SK classes had a special visitor, the Rainbow Lady, Janet Nezon from Rainbow Plate™. She was invited by Seeds for Change Gardens, who have been helping our SK classes set up their vegetable garden in the ELC play area. Janet talked about how she LOVED rainbows and how she enjoyed eating them too! She and our young students had a very interesting discussion about the importance of eating food with different colours. However, did that mean having Fruit Loops, cookies with rainbow sprinkles, or different colour candy? NO!!! Jane slowly revealed how fruit and vegetables come in different colours of the rainbow and that they make you feel wonderful and get all 5 senses excited! She brought a variety of produce to show the students and even introduced them to a few that they had never seen before, such as the chayote, which looked like a muppet face! They also showed some familiar fruit and vegetables and she asked them to touch and smell them too. After the discussion on the floor, the students went to workstations organized by colour. At each table, there were a variety of fruit and vegetables of the same colour. They were encouraged to taste them. There were familiar ones such as corn, apples and grapes but also some unique things such as purple cabbage, chayote, and Asian pear. The students also received a paper plate with the chant "Rainbow Plate, Rainbow Plate, Tell me the colours that you ate!" Once the students tried the fruit and vegetables of a particular colour, they stamped their plate with the corresponding bingo dauber. At the end of the session, they had a colourful plate to remind them of their wonderful rainbow experience!”
Scholarship Opportunity!
This year the members of Landscape Ontario (our trade association in that province) were challenged to multiply the money invested in post-secondary education through their scholarship program. The idea is to encourage students either committed to or considering an education in horticulture (landscaping, nursery and greenhouse growing, grounds maintenance, garden writing - you get the picture). An enthusiastic group of established business people from the industry made a commitment to triple the amount previously invested in scholarships of this kind. And they did it! There is currently more than $80,000 available, through 12 colleges and universities, to students who qualify. The problem? I'll let you in on a secret: no one seems to know about this money, as the applications have not been pouring in. If a qualifying student was to submit an application before the June 30th deadline, chances are very good that they would be awarded between $2,000 and $4,000 this year. The details are here. To horticultural students in Ontario: if you read this and don't apply, you miss out. To horticultural students in other parts of Canada: based on the success of this program, more scholarships may be available in future in your province. In the mean time I suggest that you contact Landscape Canada for details about similar programs in your province right now. Hurry, time is of the essence.
On Friday afternoon, our lead garden coordinator, Nicole, braved the rain with a dozen fearless volunteers at our Crescent Village garden in Richmond Hill! Together we planted the basil, cherry tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, golden peppers and cayenne peppers that our friends at Alexander Mackenzie grew for us. We also planted organic snap peas, carrots, lettuce and mixed greens from seed!
We all got completely soaked and covered in soil but we had so much fun! The students learned about photosynthesis, the importance of the root system and the best bugs to find in our garden!
To learn more about Seeds For Change and the 2015 Campaign or to find out how you can get involved, visit www.seedsforchangegardens.org