Two teachers help the kids with the Lord Roberts School Garden. Maria speaks to us about the activities in the garden. City Farmer started the garden in 1986.
We planted wasabi seven or eight years ago at City Farmer and finally we are giving it the taste trial.
Sharon, head gardener at City Farmer, gives Tasha a tour of the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. They look at the cob shed and oven. compost toilet, and bird baths. www.cityfarmer.info
Garden Giants (King Stropharia) are edible mushrooms and Maria planted our crop at the Vancouver Compost Garden this past spring. We see them emerge under the squash leaves in September and admire their beauty.
I catch up with Sarah and Niki at UBC Farm where they are both hard at work harvesting and selling produce grown as part of a unique education program. If they have dirt on their hands and faces it's because this is a real hands-on program, not simply another in-the-classroom academic course. (And I apologize to them for shooting them before they could wash up!)
From April of 2007 until August of 2008, we've been waiting for a big harvest of mushrooms. Maria shows off our Shiitake Mushrooms.
Jordan talks about selling garden produce in front of his home in Vancouver BC. Every Sunday he harvests herbs, vegetables, fruit and also some eggs and places them for sale at the end of his driveway. He calls his home garden "Southlands Farm".
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