THUNDER BAY -- More details are being released on the growing partnership between Roots to Harvest and the Lakehead Public School Board.
The board and the not-for-profit group will be breaking ground this spring on a new community garden located on Lillie Street beside the Adult Education Centre.
This comes just months after Roots to Harvest lost access to the community garden property on the corner of Cornwall and Algoma Street.
The new lot will be considerably larger and because of that, community grower Stuart Oke said the new Urban Training Farm will be capable including other activities such as beekeeping and raising rabbits.
“We will start with a sort of graduated system over a couple of years, ultimately, before the full site is developed,” Oke said.
“This season we will develop about half the site, which will include a spot for us to grow our own vegetables, a school educational plot, perennial raised beds and some raised boxes for a flower garden.”
Lakehead Public Schools education officer Leslie Hynnes said the partnership between Lakehead Public Schools and Roots to Harvest has been in existence since 2007.
“It began in the community gardens within our school grounds and as time has gone on we have seen those projects grow into broader projects,” Hynnes said.
Hynnes added that the garden is part of giving students an experiential learning experience outside the four walls of the classroom.
(TBT News)
