With the warm weather and longer days, enjoying a 5 à 7 with friends and family seems like the thing to do! A few months ago, Janice and Normand shared a few of their go-to recipes during an intergenerational kitchen workshop. The recipes are featured in our cookbook: Learning From Our Elders, and shared with you below. Enjoy!
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Gardening 101 Workshop
Come to our Gardening 101 workshop on Tuesday May 24 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm; it’s time to start a garden at home or in a community garden plot. We’ll learn all about how to plan and design a garden, how to prepare the soil, and how to (trans)plant the seeds and seedlings. We’ll also talk about plant companionship and tips on how …
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Stories of Santropol Roulant
My name is Solmaz Nassiri. I am a new immigrant from Iran, having moved to Canada on my own in May 2013. When I arrived here, I didn’t know anyone. One of my English teachers introduced me to Santropol Roulant. Since then, I’ve come here every week. Before coming to Santropol Roulant, I didn’t have very much confidence but the …
Workshop: Vegetarian Snack bar
We are back with our monthly “recipes from our community” workshop! For our third workshop, Mark, a Roulant volunteer and previous meals-on-wheels intern, will show us how to prepare his three favorite snack bar dishes with a vegetarian twist! The menu: Black bean veggie burgers with goat cheese and caramelized onions Sweet potato fries Queen Elizabeth cake The details: Date: Wednesday …
Sugar shack love
Last Thursday we enjoyed a beautiful outing to feast at l’Érablière Charbonneau! Some 60 clients, volunteers and staff took the road trip to Mont St Gregoire, building intergenerational relationships and community in one. The menu at the sugar shack was an extravaganza: crepes, ham, omelet and tourtière were all doused in delicious maple syrup. We ate like kings and queens! Though …
Volunteers – get your garden on this season
Calling all green thumbs – our Agriculture Program will begin accepting volunteers as of early June. This is a preliminary call-out to inform you of when and where volunteer shifts will be taking place and to gauge your interest and availability for different tasks and shifts (ex: gardening, farming, markets). Whether you’re a current or brand new volunteer interested in agricultural volunteering opportunities …
Thank you to our Partners!
Santropol Roulant is a vibrant community of many people playing different roles, each as important as the next. It takes so many to keep our organization rolling, to accomplish our mission and to reach our goals and dreams! We’d like to take a moment to thank the individuals and organizations who contribute through donations and grants, in kind gifts and …
Meals-on-Wheels: Home & Community Care
Did you know that our Meals-on-Wheels program is part of a continuum of services that contributes to home care, like cleaning support, health care service, pharmaceuticals deliveries, etc. The people that use these services are often, seniors, post hospitalisation patients, those who suffer from degenerative disease, mental health challenges or have reduced mobility. Staying at home is a less costly alternative for …
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From the Bee Blog: So, you got the Flow Hive
Our collective of urban beekeepers created this amazing post on their blog: Apiculture Santropol Roulant. It’s packed with tons of local resources for aspiring beekeepers! Check out their bee-lingual blog for lots of other great posts! So, you got the Flow Hive… Welcome to the world of beekeeping! Perhaps you are here thinking… well, now what? Well, now your education …
Job Offer: Coordinator of the Meals-on-Wheels Client Community
Join the Meals-on-Wheels team for an unforgettable experience working with the clients of our daily meal service. We’re looking for a caring and compassionate listener with a strong desire to build social change through social inclusion and food security initiatives. The application deadline is Monday, May 23rd at 9am, with an anticipated start date in mid-June. Please note that this …
Job Offer: Communications Coordinator
If you love to keep wonderful people in the loop about all of the incredible social inclusion, food security and intergenerational connections happening at the Roulant, apply to join the staff team as the Communications Coordinator! The application deadline is Monday, May 23rd at 9am. Please note this is a maternity leave replacement contract, for a duration of 14 months. Here …
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Volunteer Appreciation Party and Talent Show!
Every day in every way, Santropol Roulant volunteers make our programs run. In the kitchen, out on delivery, in the thick of our gardens and in a million other ways, everything that the Roulant does happens thanks to your efforts. We want to thank you for all that you have done so far in 2016! This time around we are …