Are you eager to deepen your knowledge of agriculture and hone your gardening skills? This year we’re happy to reboot our educational urban agriculture workshop series that will equip you, our community members, with all the knowledge and hands-on experience you’ll need to get your gardening growing green! As you may remember from our recent urban agriculture update, our hope …
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Job Offer: Urban Agriculture Internships
Get your hands dirty with the Santropol Roulant urban agriculture team this summer! We’re hiring 2 students to care for our rooftop and campus gardens and support our intergenerational community of knowledgeable gardeners. Please note that, to apply, you must be a full time student (during the winter semester of 2017) and intend to return to full time studies in the …
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It’s time for seedlings!
Even though the ground outside is still frozen, we are already growing seedlings in the greenhouse at the farm, including onion, leek, tomato, herbs, and other cruciferous vegetables. At home, you can do the same on the edge of a sunny windowsill! Here are some tips and tricks for starting your own seedlings from our Farm co-manager, Samuel. Four key elements to …
Soil and Seeds for Sale
Spring is here! It’s time to get your garden on. Whether you’d like to grow your first batch of lettuce or a bumper crop of tomatoes, the Roulant General Store is stocked with all of the things you need to get going! What’s available? Come choose from 56 varieties of organic, locally produced flower and vegetable seeds from Ferme Co-operative Tourne-Sol ($3.50 per …
Sign up for the Roulant’s 2017 weekly farm organic baskets!
With spring in the air, we’re excited to announce the opening of registration for the 2017 Organic Baskets! Below you’ll find information about the peri-urban farm and the baskets, what’s new this year, and meet the farmers growing your food! Visit our Organic Basket page for more information. What is an Organic Basket? Also known as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), the …
Urban Ag in Flux
This year brings some exciting changes in our Urban Agriculture (UA) program. Carlo, our UA Manager, invites you to journey through the history of UA at the Roulant and see what the future brings! Growing our own food For the last 15 years, UA has played a key part in our programming at the Roulant. In our quest to provide more …
New Faces at the Roulant
You may have noticed a few new faces in the office lately. We are happy to welcome Samuel, Bahara and Tanya to our team, and send our warmest farewells and biggest thanks to those leaving these positions to embark on new adventures. Fundraising Tanya D’Amours joins us in the newly renamed position of Director of Fundraising and Financial Vibrancy. She brings …
Seeds for sale in the General Store!
Local organic vegetable and flower seeds are now in the Roulant’s General Store! Make your list and come on over. Once again, we are partnering with Ferme Co-operative Tourne-sol, a local organic seed producer to offer seed varieties that are well suited to our climate and urban growing conditions. Included below is a list of the varieties that will be available. …
Planning your garden
Carlo, our Urban Agriculture Manager, gives us a great overview on planning your own garden. It’s time to start thinking about your garden! I know, it’s still cold and dark but I swear, it’s not too early to start thinking about what you’ll be growing this year. What follows are my tips on how to approach planning a garden based a …
Food accessibility survey
Since starting our Senneville farm in 2012, we have invested a lot of effort in working towards a food system that is healthy, just, and sustainable, while ensuring that the farm produce remains accessible to all regardless of socioeconomic status, level of mobility, or degree of autonomy. To help us work towards this goal, our Market Development Coordinator, Camila, invites …
Job offer: Urban Agriculture Manager
Are you looking to contribute your energy, knowledge and passion to building an inclusive and accessible local food movement? Do you like finding innovative ways to engage people in agriculture-based learning? We want to meet you! We are hiring a full-time Urban Agriculture Manager to lead our downtown agriculture program, cultivating our rooftop garden, terrasse and container gardens on the …
Job Offer: Internship in Peri-Urban Farming
Calling all budding farmers, young agrarians, and those who thrive with their hands in the dirt! We are hiring two young people with some previous farming experience to spend 6 months working on our peri-urban farm in Senneville, Québec growing organic food for Santropol Roulant’s food security programs. The application deadline for this position is Monday, January 30th at 9am. The …