Growing food. Growing communities. Growing community through growing food in Vancouver, BC
06/18/2025
Look at these giant chois! They'll be available with more yummy veggies on our markets !
This week you can also expect some napa cabbage, crunchy king radish, kale, peas and kohlrabi!
📍 Vancouver Market
🗓 Wednesdays, May 28 – October 8
⏰ 3:00–7:00 PM
📌 Van Tech Secondary, 2600 E Broadway
(Behind the school on the east side near the tennis courts)
📍 Coquitlam Market
🗓 Thursdays, June 19 – August 21
⏰ 3:00–6:00 PM
📌 Millside Centre, 1432 Brunette Ave
(At the front entrance, just off Schoolhouse)
Bring a tote, bring a friend and come say hi!
06/13/2025
Looking for a fun, hands-on camp for your kids this summer? Camp Fresh Roots in and still has spaces open! Kids ages 4–12 will explore the garden, cook and eat together, make new friends, and learn from the land. Don't miss out and register today!
More info at freshroots.ca/camp-fresh-roots
Today we have some amazing promo code available :
In Coquitlam - Discount code FRESH40 for $40 off!
In Vancouver - Mini Sampler camp - Discount code Mini2025 for $20 off; registration closes June 29; get a taste of what Day Camp is all about!
06/06/2025
Want to get involved? Whether you're a seasoned grower or a total newbie, we’d love to dig in with you!
Join us at one of our upcoming Big Help days:
Sat, June 7 | 10 AM–1 PM
📍 David Thompson Farm
Wed, June 11 | 4–6 PM
📍 Millside Centre / Suwa’lkh School (Coquitlam)
These are hands-on, feel-good days of teamwork, learning, and growing together. No experience needed — just bring your enthusiasm (and we’ll bring the snacks).
06/05/2025
Hi friends,
We're sharing a GoFundMe in support of Stephanie, a longtime member of the Fresh Roots community, whose father recently passed away.
If you're able to contribute or help share the fundraiser, it would go a long way in supporting her and her siblings during this time.
Hi, we’re Stacey and Susie, close friends of the Slen family. … Susie Poulsen needs your support for Support the Slen Kids After the Tragic Loss of Their Dad
06/04/2025
It's today!
Join us for our Market Party on June 4, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at Vancouver Technical Secondary!
We’re celebrating with free snacks and drinks, tons of fresh produce including delicious bread and cookies from Tall shadow bakery , live music from Sospiro Misterioso and Songtree, and family-friendly activities.
06/02/2025
Do your want to discover the Fresh Roots Camp experience for the first time without committing to a full week ? Use the discount code Mini2025 for $20 off the registration cost!
🌱TRY OUT SAMPLER CAMPS 🌱
Dates: July 2-4, ages 4-8
Location: Fresh Roots Farms at David Thompson Secondary
A Half-Day Sampler for our youngest campers! We’ll dig in the soil, try tasty treats, make masterpieces, and explore everything that the farm has to offer, in a shorter camp day.
We're delighted to invite you for our Market Party on June 4, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at Vancouver Technical Secondary!
We’re celebrating with free snacks and drinks, tons of fresh produce including delicious bread and cookies from Tall Shadow Bakery, live music from Sospiro Misterioso and Songtree, and family-friendly activities.
Join us to kick off the season!
05/23/2025
Get a weekly share of the harvest by joining our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program!
📍 Vancouver: Wednesdays, 4–7 PM | July 9 – Sept 10, (2600 E Broadway in Vancouver)
📍 Coquitlam: Thursdays, 3–6 PM | June 19 – Aug 2, ’lkh market (1432 Brunette Ave in Coquitlam)
Fresh, local, and grown by youth! By purchasing a CSA membership you're supporting education and food security.
Looking for more? Market Credits let you shop flexibly at our Fresh Roots markets, an easy way to support local while enjoying farm-fresh goodness!
It's almost here, our FIRST MARKET of 2025! You’re invited to join us at our schoolyard farm at (2600 E Broadway in Vancouver) every Wednesday starting May 28 from 3pm to 7pm
We also have our ’lkh market (1432 Brunette Ave in Coquitlam) starting May 29 that runs every Thursday from 3pm to 6pm
Come by for fresh veggies grown with care by youth and staff, plus eggs, bread, and more.
Looking for a fun, hands-on camp for your kids this summer? Camp Fresh Roots in and still has spaces open! Kids ages 6–11 will explore the garden, cook and eat together, make new friends, and learn from the land. Don't miss out and register today!
More info at freshroots.ca/camp-fresh-roots
05/05/2025
Last chance to join our Big Help this Wednesday, May 7!
We’re getting our schoolyard farm at Vancouver Technical Secondary ready for a big season of growing and we need your help ! We’ll be prepping garden beds, shoveling and spreading compost and most importantly getting the soil just right for our spring planting.
No experience needed — just come ready to dig in, get dirty, and have fun!
Snacks and good vibes provided. 🥕💚
For over 10 years, we’ve been growing food, youth, and community on schoolyard farms. But some of our irrigation systems and equipment are aging and breaking down, making it harder to keep up with the needs of our farms and programs.
That’s why we’re asking for your support for these two major upgrades:
💧 A new irrigation system – to save water, improve efficiency, and grow more food sustainably.
❄️ A refurbished shipping container for cold storage – to keep our harvests fresher for longer, reducing food waste and increasing our impact.
These improvements will free up time for our farmers to mentor youth, teach sustainable agriculture, and strengthen our local food system. But we can’t do it without you!
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Fresh Roots’ envisions urban agriculture that fosters safe, inclusive communities where everyone has access to healthy, locally grown foods!
We achieve this by developing and managing community market gardens for a diverse range of partners on their own institutional land while providing education/engagement programming services.
Our community market gardens and programs create:
• Multicultural, intergenerational community spaces
• Good food for our partners and communities
• Green collar jobs and a replicable, innovative model
• Understanding of the connection between environment, culture and our food.
Our market gardens have become community focal points, bringing a variety of multicultural, intergenerational communities together for learning, celebration, or simply experiencing the joy and wonder of growing food.
We work in an inspiring collaboration with the Vancouver School Board. Together we have established two 14,000 sq ft Schoolyard Market Gardens, commercially producing spaces used as outdoor learning classrooms by the school community and for community gatherings and celebrations by the neighbourhood.
Through the gardens we host professional development days for teachers, helping 'train the trainers' how to use gardens to achieve core curricular objectives. We also host workshops, events, farm tours and field trips for elementary, secondary, and university classes. We offer corporate and non-profit team building opportunities as well.
Produce from our Schoolyard Market Gardens is distributed through our weekly Veggie Box program, sold to local school cafeterias, and purchased by the community at Vancouver Farmers Markets.
A big part of our vision is connecting youth with the food they are eating while at school. To reach this goal we partner with a number of school cafeterias to bring fresh schoolyard grown produce onto the plates of students for the entire school year. Through consultation with our cafeteria partners we’ve identified vegetables that best suit each school’s menu and plan our plantings and harvest to ensure we can consistently provide these crops. Through this unique relationship students can create a link between the food they see growing in the garden and menu items featuring Fresh Roots produce available to them at lunch.
To learn more about Fresh Roots, teacher professional development opportunities, and how to purchase school-grown produce from us, find us at:
