Month: December 2012

The Grandview Woodland Food Connection is thrilled to be partnering with the Sustainable Opportunities for Youth Leadership (SOYL) youth summer gardening internship. SOYL Summer Internship was piloted by the Intergenerational Landed Learning Project (ILLP) at UBC in 2010 to cultivate environmental leadership skills in adolescent youth, develop resilient communities, promote a sustainable food system, and advance local food production through gardening at schools. The program is now into its fourth year with this past summer working with 16 secondary students from Britannia, Van Tech, David Thompson and Churchill secondary schools and who built raised garden beds and planted, transplanted, harvested, sold, donated, cooked and ate produce from their school gardens.

Check out this great video produced by Dana Walker (Mortal Coil Media) and Berenice Freedome and starring two Britannia Students – Emerzen and Anthony.

The Grandview Woodland Food Connection is pleased to partner with the Environmental Youth Alliance Growing Kids Program who are working with Britannia Secondary Students an the Britannia School Garden.

Some of you may be curious as to what a typical day looks like for EYA at Britannia. Britannia is their most diverse school visit because they work with four unique classes – Biology 11, two alternative classes, and Foods 12, To give you a peek as to what that might be like, visit the Growing Kids Blog – Britannia Secondary School post – http://growingkidseya.wordpress.com/