>> Aaren Topley
The garden at Vic High is waking up after a deep freeze and is ready to start growing. In their garden you might walk by on Gladstone Avenue, Vic High students have been able to learn about traditional food systems and connecting with the land from the people’s territory they reside on.
Last year, Vic High received funding from Farm to Cafeteria and Farm to School BC to build a medicine wheel and camas meadow. The school also received funding for a garden that grows food which the school can use in their salad bar program. City Harvest Cooperative and Mason St. Farms have partnered with Vic High to make sure the space is as productive as possible.
Students from the Vic High Garden Club have been participating regularly having the chance to grow tomatoes, salad greens, and much more! As this partnership strengthens between urban farmers and Vic High, the activities will open to the entire student body, allowing teachers to sign up their class up to learn from the farm experts.
Community support for this project is always appreciated. The school needs several wheelbarrows, gloves, trowel, poly plastic 10′ wide in 100′ rolls, and quality hoses (the kind that don’t kink easily).
If you want to make donations, get more involved or learn more, please contact Aaren Topley, capitalregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca.
