Common Roots Urban Farm is growing into its new BiHi home
For original article by Kieran Delamont click here: Common Roots Urban Farm is growing into its new BiHi home - CityNews Halifax Cities are full of them: patches of grass, abutting roads and highways, stranded by the planning process and, often, their value and...
Growing Home
Text & photos — Carolina Andrade View the original article here: Growing Home - BESIDE Depending on where you reside in the world, farming can look and feel very different, but the basic process remains the same: nourish the soil, plant seeds, water as needed,...
Getting urban garden projects off the ground is a challenge for local groups
Making the most of the city’s limited green space image caption: The Prescott Street community garden has 25 community garden plots, and a waitlist to get one Written by Kaila Jefferd-Moore; Originally seen in The Coast Urban agriculture is trending hard these days,...
Common Roots Urban Farm finds potential new home
Halifax's Common Roots Urban Farm is looking to move from its current spot at Robie Street and Bell Road to a green space by the Bicentennial Highway at Bayers Road. "Once that site is approved by city council, if that can happen, then I'm going to be really relieved...
Cultivating Community
By Emma Drudge All photos by Juanita Gallagher. This article originally appeared in the Summer issue of the Ecology & Action, the Ecology Action Centre's quarterly magazine It’s early in the season at Common Roots Urban Farm. Feathery white row covers blanket the...
Common Roots Urban Farm launches crowdfunding campaign to fund move
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 11, 2018 HALIFAX, NS - Common Roots Urban Farm (CRUF) is launching a crowdfunding campaign to fund the farm’s transition to a new home. With the QEII Health Sciences Centre New Generation Project slated to begin, the farm is coming to the...
Living on a low income, with dear Don Christie
On March 28th, 2017, one of our beloved volunteers, Don Christie was interviewed by Natalie Dobbin, on CBC Mainstreet NS. He talks about the challenges of living on a very low income, with many challenges, but the bright spot that Common Roots Urban Farm has...
Fresh approach to age-old problem
Having recently returned from the Parabere Forum, held in Malmö, Sweden, Janine Kennedy wrote for the Chronicle Herald about food and food security titled A Fresh Approach to an Age-old Problem, (read the full article here). “Something I’ve been learning about (at...
Growing Sense premiers on AMI -TV
In 2017, many of you might have noticed regular film crews on the farm, especially around the Rick Hansen Healing Garden area. That was for a TV show called 'Growing Sense' an inspiring, 10-part documentary which premieres this week on AMI-tv, follows therapeutic...
DataRam’s Story
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 access on...