8th Annual Harvest Hootenanny and Pumpkin Smash Bi-Hi Park, Bayers Road Sat Nov 2 1-5pm As its successful first season in a new location winds down, Common Roots Urban Farm only sees growth in its future. Despite a delayed opening as a result of heavy rains, CRUF has been prospering at its new location at […]
Common Roots Urban Farm
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Best Community Project
Gold Winner Hope Blooms Silver Winner Feed Nova Scotia Bronze Winner Common Roots Urban Farm There’s a riot of giggling noises as Jessie Jollymore answers the phone, struggling to be heard over the din. The executive director at Hope Blooms is in the midst of a product launch planning meeting with some of the organization’s […]
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Best Community Project
Gold Winner Hope Blooms Silver Winner Common Roots Urban Farm Bronze Winner Dartmouth North Community Food Centre Hope just keeps on blooming from the inspiring hearts over at Hope Blooms. Not ones to rest on their laurels, the city’s reigning Best Community Project keeps coming up with new ways to be awesome. This past summer […]
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Folded River
Exhibit 400, Common Roots Urban Farm, Bell Road at Robie Street In Folded River, artist Alex Balkam’s creative process is mined to create an immersive piece of expanded cinema. Working with Thomas Evans and Jonathan Mandeville of Passage Studios, Balkam reconstructs a version of a landscape he’s known since childhood, one that he returns to […]
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FIELD NOTES: Off-Grid Greenhouse Systems
Have you ever wondered how to save irrigation cost when you were gardening? Are you interested in solar energy? Do you have questions about when to start your seed planting? On May 14th, the coordinator of Hope Blooms Community Garden Greenhouse, Peter Wilkinson, hosted a workshop at the Common Roots Urban Farm on Off-Grid Greenhouse […]
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FIELD NOTES: Growing veggies in the city
As spring bursts forth from winter, does it make you want to garden? Or is it rising food prices and growing local food trends? Either way, it’s time to get dirty, and there are loads of local resources to support your emerging or entrenched gardening habits. Tonight (Tuesday, May 3) at 5pm, urban farmer Sara […]
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Best Community Project
Gold Winner Hope Blooms Silver Winner Common Roots Urban Farm Bronze Winner Halifolks All respect to former Dragon Arlene Dickinson—who helped greenlight their community-garden-made salad dressing line—but given their drive and commitment, the inspiring folks at Hope Blooms were always destined for great things. This year the young entrepreneurs opened their own greenhouse in the […]
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Laxmi Adhikari’s sweet harmonium
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaasen, Laxmi Adhikari Sunday, May 24, 4:30-6pm Common Roots Urban Farm free Before Laxmi Adhikari and his wife Raj Adhikari moved to Halifax in 2011 from Nepal, they had over three decades of playing music under their belts—Laxmi on the harmonium and Raj on the Madal drum—their son also performs music, but he’s […]
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Best Community Project
Gold Winner Hope Blooms Silver Winner Common Roots Urban Farm Bronze Winner Dartmouth Carousel Sometimes, on really bad days, I watch the clip of Dragon’s Den where north end Halifax’s group of young community gardeners and entrepreneurs, Hope Blooms, wins four times the amount of money they asked for. (They even wooed meanie supreme […]
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The ShopTalk Guided Tour: Quinpool Road
It’s time for Quinfest! The celebration of all things Quinpool Road is this Saturday, September 15, 11am-3pm. The fun includes a reptile zoo, clowns, carnival games, face-painting, kite-flying and science booths. Most of the street’s restaurants are offering free samples from noon to 2pm. And at 1pm there’s a free concert, with Razzmatazz For Kids […]