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 …
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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 …
End of the season at the farm
An update from Clémence, Farm co-manager It has been another great season at the Senneville farm! Thank you to our incredible farm volunteers, and to those who embarked on the CSA adventure with us this season. Thank you for supporting local agriculture and your farmers! As a farmer, it is a real privilege to know the families and individuals who enjoy our produce. …
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Looking Back at Community Farm Day 2016
This past weekend, the Santropol Roulant farm team was pleased to host the annual Community Farm Day in Senneville. Visitors were able to come and learn more about our 3-acre farm through tours and games. It was great to welcome people of all ages in the fields and share the freshly harvested veggies during the potluck lunch! The Roulant farm supports the production of fresh vegetables for our kitchen …
Welcoming Camila to the team
The Roulant team is excited to welcome back Camila Gordillo, our new Farmer’s Market Development Coordinator. Camila will be working part time over the next few months to further develop strategies about how the Roulant’s produce can become more accessible to people with low incomes. Camila is passionate about the power of soil and nature in sustaining life, health and …
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The MyCollective is looking for new members!
Santropol Roulant’s mushroom collective is gearing up for autumn and calling out to all amateur mycologists and mushroom hunters to join this group of volunteers. What is it the Mycollectif/ve you ask? It’s a gathering of mushroom enthusiasts that is building a nucleus of knowledge about mycology and expanding the breadth of urban agriculture in our community. Mycollective also aims to develop …
Community Farm Day – new date announced!
Update: We have excellent news for all of you who have been anxiously waiting for a chance to visit our farm: our rescheduled annual Community Farm Day is confirmed for September 17. Join us for a day on the land and get to know Santropol Roulant’s periurban farm in Senneville. The day will include a farm tour, a potluck, and …
Farm Profiles: Co-Managers
Santropol Roulant’s Senneville farm is located on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The farm not only produces the bulk of our agricultural yield but plays an important role in educating Montrealers on the importance of organic and local agriculture. The farm is co-managed by Adam and Clémence, two passionate individuals who work tirelessly with farm staff and …
Thanking our farm volunteers
We are so grateful to have so many volunteers come and join us at our peri-urban farm in Senneville and at the organic basket drop-off. Every Monday and Wednesday morning, volunteers take the train to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue station and take their bikes out to the farm. They come and help us harvest. It’s a precious exchange we have with them. It is always interesting to see …
Starting Seeds in the Fall
Did you have big plans to grow veggies this summer? It’s not too late! Fall is a great time to start seeds and certain vegetables actually prefer the cool nights. For avid gardeners, planting is not just a springtime activity. They often create a seasonal plan that involves seeding certain veggies on a weekly basis, so as to lengthen the …