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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • OCTOBER 2018
BCYAF grants support key 4-H initiatives $100,000
awarded during the PNE
by DAVID SCHMIDT VANCOUVER – Hands-on
agriculture programs in urban schools were the big beneficiaries of BC Youth in Agriculture Foundation grants handed out during the annual Pacific National Exhibition Ag Auction, August 30. Most years, the grants total $30,000 to $40,000, representing the proceeds of the previous year’s Ag Auction. However, this year’s grants totalled almost $90,000 thanks to a special $50,000 contribution from the Vancouver Foundation. While Agriculture in the
Classroom usually receives the largest grant from the BCYAF, that was not the case this year. AITC received a grant of $10,000, half of what it received last year. The largest individual grant went to BC 4-H, which received $26,000 to support the BC 4-H Ambassador program, the 2018 Food for Thought seminar and the new Discover 4-H Camps initiative. A total of $30,000 went to
support three school programs: Fresh Roots’ SOYL program, Project Pickle and the Farm Roots Mini-School. Sprouted in East Vancouver in 2009, Fresh Roots helps schools across Metro
BC 4-H Youth Ambassadors were on hand at the Pacific National Exhibition Evening for Agriculture, August 30, to accept a cheque for $26,000 from the BC Youth In Agriculture Foundation. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO
Vancouver develop schoolyard market gardens. The food the students grow goes into school cafeterias, local food security initiatives and a weekly salad box program for East Vancouver families. The SOYL program is an offshoot of the Fresh Roots
program that offers a seven- week summer leadership program at the Vancouver Technical and David Thompson Secondary School farms. Students develop skills in growing, cooking and selling food and receive stipends and credits for participating. Project Pickle is a
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partnership between Delta School District and Kwantlen Polytechnic University and involves classroom instruction as well as hands-on learning on several “farms” located at local elementary schools. The BCYAF grant will help build school farm infrastructure and provide internships to maintain the farms. The Farm Roots Mini- School is another partnership between Delta School District and Kwantlen. Grade 10-12 students attend the school, which is basically an eight- acre farm at Boundary Bay. At the school, they learn to design, plan and build a mini- farm. The students alternate between attending the farm
school and their regular school on a daily basis. Delta South MLA and Liberal agriculture critic Ian Paton, a member of the PNE’s Agriculture Advisory Committee, conducted the annual auction, which again raised well over $30,000 for the BCYAF. Those funds will be distributed during next year’s event. Superior Poultry provided
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