Intern and Earn Credit

Fresh Roots is committed to creating access to local, healthy, organically  grown food in East Vancouver. By utilizing community backyards, we nurture future farmers to sow the seeds of a sustainable urban food system. As Local As It Comes! Fresh Roots grows delicious varieties of produce on the reclaimed, once fertile grounds of East Vancouver – right in our own backyards. By joining our CSA you can eat food grown just blocks away from your table. Our CSA is a small-scale but effective way we, as a community, can confront some of the global challenges of pollution, land degradation and poor nutrition. We are committed to offering our community virtually zero carbon emissions food, freshly harvested, bike-trailer delivered, grown with East Van love, East Van compost, by local East Van farmers. Fresh Roots is also a platform for strengthening community and for developing volunteer leadership. Throughout the season, our gardens will host volunteer opportunities, workshops, harvest celebrations and community gatherings. Each member will have the opportunity to decide how engaged they want to become with their local food system. What is Community Supported Agriculture? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a mutually beneficial relationship between farmers and eaters, ultimately bringing them closer together. Each year, CSA members purchase a share in the coming year’s harvest.  By supporting the farm from seed to harvest, members help the farmer use the growing season to its fullest potential, ensuring more abundance for everyone. Everybody wins! Shared Risk, Shared Reward Joining a CSA is not like paying for items individually at the market. Instead, you’re buying a share of the whole seasons’ harvest and sharing in the risks and rewards that are inherent to farming; there are always some things that don’t grow as well as expected, and some that produce in abundance! As a member of our CSA, you’ll receive the best of locally available produce and get a feel for what the growing season is like here in East Vancouver.  Eating seasonally means that the food is always at its freshest and best, full of all the stuff that we need at the right time of year. Join our Urban CSA! (or share your yard with us!) Joining our CSA (or sharing your yard with us) means that you… – support locally grown food and organic growing methods – know where your food grows and the people growing it! – eat healthier meals – connect to the seasons through the food you eat – partner with your farmer – keep money in the local economy – engage in an innovative, truly sustainable, urban food system – be a part of creating equal access to healthy, safe, affordable food – connect to a wider community within East Vancouver that is interested in a healthy food system. We share recipes, storage tips, and food system info through our blog and weekly newsletter. Internship Opportunities! We are currently accepting intern applications for the 2010 growing season! We offer a 20 hr/week internship with a weekly freshly grown produce box. If interested and would like to learn more, contact ilana at freshrootsurbancsa@gmail.com Currently, we are able to offer your backyard the opportunity to get involved. Do you have an unattended yard interested in transforming into an abundantly diverse edible food and flower garden? Let us garden your yard for you! You get – A beautifully maintained garden full of edible foods and flowers – A fresh, weekly harvest from the CSA – An educational opportunity fit to your schedule (optional) We grow lots of food in small spaces in the traditional permaculture manner. Your garden will be abundantly diverse and aesthetically pleasing. If interested, please contact ilana at freshrootsurbancsa@gmail.com -778-855-8125