Blog: stories of Waterloo

For the past several years, Granskou Greens has been growing produce year-round, on a small farm in the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Through the winter, inside grow tunnels swaddled in blankets, leafy greens and purples poke up from the soil in defiance of the cold....

In this post, we’re excited to share the work of Youth in Food Systems (YFS), a program of Seeds of Diversity that has collaborated on school gardens, as well as facilitating youth markets, communications projects, and more!

Nurture was created as a way to get young people directly involved in the food system and in responding to the challenges they face. The program’s design was simple: let youth take charge of designing and maintaining school gardens, and experience all the good things that grow out of that.