Community Roots Spotlight

Farm to School BC is a healthy eating program for K-12 students that brings healthy, local, and sustainable food into schools across British Columbia and provides students with hands-on learning opportunities that develop food literacy. Administered by the Public Health Association...

Food for Thought has a memorandum of understanding with School District No. 23 to provide school meal programs for students in Kelowna, West Kelowna, and Lake Country. Currently, over 5900 children in the Central Okanagan face hunger and we know...

The Houston Community Garden is run by Houston Link to Learning and is used as a learning program to teach people about planting, growing, and harvesting their own food. Plenty of beautiful outdoor space to learn & grow. The majority...

Coquitlam Men's Shed Society, (CMSS), is a BC non-profit that has outreach programs within the Red Door Housing Society at their Sunrise Terrace location in Coquitlam. We built four raised gardens for community gardening available for residents of the Sunrise...

Providence Farm is a supportive community that has been nestled in the heart of Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia since 1979. Today, Providence Farm provides over 180 weekly program spaces to adults living with mental health, substance use,...

The Synergy Foundation’s Food Eco District (FED) is continuing to make strides towards improving food security in the Greater Victoria Region. In support of this ambition, FED created the My FED Farm program in 2020 as a means of addressing...

For many years the Green & Gold Community Garden has been a fortunate recipient of donated seeds from West Coast Seeds. Situated on just over two acres of the University of Alberta’s south campus farmland, in Edmonton, the Garden serves...