by Jayme Melrose | Nov 21, 2017 | Community, Deep Roots, Press, Uncategorized
This summer, the United Way Halifax came to Common Roots to do a photoshoot of DataRam Humagai, and tell his story. It starts like this: “Data Ram Humangai spent nearly two decades in a refugee camp before coming to Halifax. There was no farmland or outside...
by Jayme Melrose | Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
In November 2017, with the support of the Chronicle Herald, the Halifax Partnership is launching a challenge to support our work. The below is taken from their blog, November 21, 2017: According to the 2017 Halifax Index, findings from the 2017 City Matters Survey,...
by Jayme Melrose | Nov 21, 2017 | important news, Press
In September 2017, we opened our Rick Hansen Healing Garden. Accessible Media joined us, and harvested this wonderful video about what we do and why it matters. They say “The Rick Hansen Healing Garden at Common Roots Urban Farm is something all Haligonians...
by Jayme Melrose | Nov 13, 2017 | Plots, Uncategorized
This year we asked some of our community gardeners to volunteer to track their harvest. We wanted to get a sense of what the average $ value of produce that people were getting from their plots. We have 185 plots on the farm, that take up about 1 acre of land use. ...
by Jayme Melrose | Nov 13, 2017 | Community, Deep Roots, Events
Our 2017 Harvest Hootenanny & Pumpkin Smash, the 6th annual, was another hit! Huge thanks to the Canadian Department of Heritage and Halifax Events for supporting this community event. More thanks are below, but here are our posters, in multiple languages Thanks...
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