On Oct. 3, the first official harvest of the SVRSS Growcer Farm took place, celebrating the multi-year effort it took to get this hydroponics project off the ground, housed right on the campus of the regional secondary school.
Known as the Rural and Northern Food Security Initiative, the program aims to develop a regional research and training center that focuses on growing and managing healthy and traditional foods within local, rural, and northern communities.
The initiative not only aims to provide students with access to nutritious food but also equips them with essential lifelong skills in leadership, sustainability, environment, and agriculture.
The managers of the Growcer farm will be consulting with the cafeteria and Culinary Arts program at the SVRSS to see how they can collaborate and make use of the produce, so some of the leafy green foods that will be available in the SVRSS cafeteria this year could have been grown just outside of the regional school in an unassuming, white building.
Read more at The Swan Valley Star and Times.