by CRUF Staff | Sep 5, 2017 | Community
Zenovia runs a gardening group at Common Roots as part of her clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at Dal, just a few blocks from the farm. She is also a a mushroomer, a herbalist, and a hobby farmer – and above all, a lover of plants. SG. Are you a new or...
by CRUF Staff | Aug 22, 2017 | Community, Workshops
Do you ever keep an ear out when you’re walking around the farm? Dan Ritchie does. Dan is a DJ and recorded samples from all around the farm to present a workshop on audio place making. Dan writes: Place making is a concept relating to the reinvention and...
by CRUF Staff | Aug 14, 2017 | Community, Deep Roots
Salvatory, Janet the interpreter, and I met at the farm on a gorgeous summer day, interrupting his busy day volunteering with the Deep Roots program. As you can see, he has a beautiful smile! Salvatory was a Deep Roots participant last year and we’re thrilled to...
by CRUF Staff | Jul 17, 2017 | Community, Get Involved, shop
Do you think its important that food bank users get healthy produce? We do, but we need support to do so. So far this year we have received $1100 in donations to support our donation of healthy food to the Parker Street Food Bank. Thanks to the Halifax Partnership,...
by CRUF Staff | Jul 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
We had a really great week on the Farm! Sara and our Deep Roots crew harvested 85 pounds of salad from the Market Garden!!! Seriously, try to imagine the volume of that. Also, 16.5 pounds of peas and 24 bunches of radishes. So much harvest! Of this, we donated 36...
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