Take a few minutes to read this Article by Colleen Kimmet on TheTyee.ca. Hope this can inspire you to think about the location of Community Gardens in our Cities and how schools can been seen as Community Assets. We’ve been in contact with Christian School Teachers and they are interested! Community members, parents of children attending Grade School-something for you to advocate for or even coordinate yourself!

How Grandview Elementary Fills up Student Plates

From farm and garden to desk, one Vancouver school finds success feeding vulnerable kids.

Here is a snippet of the article….

School gardens are now funneling vegetables into classrooms and cafeterias at an unprecedented rate, or at least, at a rate unseen since the Second World War.

The City of Vancouver alone has 55 school gardens, according to Kevin Millsip, the school board’s sustainability coordinator. And increasingly, educators and administrators see schools playing an important role in addressing food security in the wider community. Mansfield calls schools “natural community assets,” with land for growing, kitchens for cooking, and parking lots and covered play areas that could serve as CSA pickups or food-buying club depots.

“We want to go beyond just providing food,” says Mansfield. “We also want to help support parents. This is going to have a greater life than saying, ‘here’s free food.’ “

Grandview/¿uuqinak’uuh is the fourth most vulnerable school in the city, based on the number of children enrolled who are in foster homes or homes receiving income assistance. As such, it qualifies for a hot lunch program funded by the Ministry of Education’s CommunityLINK program.