GardenSmart Workshop – Backyard Fruit Tree Pruning

Feb 4, 2012 | Education, EGP Blog, Events

Pruning 101 – Introduction to Backyard Fruit Tree Pruning, Saturday February 4th 10am-11:30. Call 604-990-3755 To Register – Workshop Costs $5 If you’re looking at your backyard fruit trees wondering how to help them thrive, join fruit tree expert David Tracey for...

The real cost of fast food

Jan 10, 2012 | EGP Blog

It is considered common knowledge that junk food is cheaper than fresh food. This ‘fact’ is the reason that poor communities tend towards McDonalds rather than grocery stores and get their calories from fries, not fruits. It has legitimized the over-consumption of...

Start a Food Revolution – All Aboard!

Jan 6, 2012 | EGP Blog

The Edible Garden Project’s biggest year of growth ever is coming to a close. Nestled snug for winter, visions of garden beds dance in our heads. We’re going to keep saying it because it is so true, but we couldn’t have done this year without you....

Fed Up – Kids, Gardens, & Kale Chips

Dec 21, 2011 | EGP Blog, Fed Up

Fed Up? Many parents, educators, and even students would say they’re fed up with the lack of nutritious food and food education in our public school system. Along with many other organizations in the Lower Mainland the Edible Garden Project (EGP) is working to...

Ban Cosmetic Chemical Pesticides in BC

Nov 17, 2011 | EGP Blog

The Edible Garden Project grows food without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides in all of our Sharing Gardens and at Loutet Farm. As we encourage North Shore residents to build gardens in their yards we are also decreasing the amount of “lawn...

My Burger Was Born in a Petri Dish

Nov 15, 2011 | EGP Blog

It may sound outlandish to try and conceive of animals being grown in parts strictly for the purpose of consumption. It may sound obscene to think the leftovers from a slaughterhouse have the necessary stem cells to be reproduced into edible muscle tissue. Maybe it’s...