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...
by Jayme Melrose | Sep 25, 2017 | Events, important news, Press, Thank you
On Friday September 22, we had our grand opening for the Rick Hansen Healing Garden. What a great event! Thanks to everyone who came out – what a nice big crowd. Here is a link to some great photos of the event – thanks to Såndor Fizli. We were also on...
by Jayme Melrose | Jul 18, 2017 | shop, Thank you, Uncategorized
Pretty in love with these tea towels, won’t deny it! Last fall, we were lucky to get a small grant from Credit Union Atlantic through their Community Investment Grant Program. We wanted to make some nice merchandise for the farm, and this allowed us the start-up...
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