Canada: City Farmer in Vancouver: Bringing nature to the city!

Best of all, City Farmer is open to everyone! Children and adults alike can delight in a visit to the garden and explore the worlds of a variety of plants, trees and insects.

Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
Oct 2019

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Despite being the coldest day on record, many of our Family Child Care centres attended a great field trip to the City Farmer Garden organized by VCCRR this week. To start off, we had such a beautiful sunny day, the air was crisp and it was wonderful to see the many colours of fall. Everyone was dressed for the weather and we were all eager to play and learn.

Sharon from City Farm took one group of children to explore the garden. The children were able to use all their senses to see, touch, smell and taste some of the herbs. They were able to identify some plants were soft like feathers and some were sharp like needles. They saw the pizza oven and went in the greenhouse to see what was growing in there.

While that was happening, another group of children were with Luisa who was talking about worm composting. Luisa explained about the nature of the worms and invited all the children to build a worm home. Luisa put some dried straws and flowers in the container and asked the children to help her tear some “spaghetti paper” to add to the box. The children had so much fun ripping the newspapers and were so proud to make such a cozy home for all the worms. All the children had the opportunity to hold the worms and they were able to get a closer look as they wiggled in their hands.

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