FRESH ROOTS AT RISK OF CANCELLING FUNDRAISER:
‘SCHOOLYARD HARVEST LONGTABLE DINNER’, HAPPENING JULY 6TH
Buy your tickets now for the ‘Schoolyard Harvest Longtable Dinner’ benefitting
Recent Roots City Farm Society’s youth applications
Vancouver B.C., June 21, 2023—After a 3-year hiatus, Recent Roots City Farm Society is excited to be bringing again their most anticipated and important fundraiser of the 12 months: Schoolyard Harvest Longtable Dinner on Thursday, July 6, from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Nevertheless, this beforehand quick-to-sell-out summertime occasion is already liable to being cancelled as a consequence of sluggish ticket gross sales. Recent Roots depends closely on this occasion to fund Recent Roots’ youth applications which empower younger individuals to attach with each their neighborhood and the meals on their plate. Celebrating nature’s bounty on the verdant farm grounds of David Thompson Secondary Faculty, Schoolyard Harvest Longtable Dinner is a chic, chef-prepared multi-course, seated dinner made with domestically sourced elements from the charity’s schoolyard farms and neighborhood companions, and paired with an open bar of wine, beer, and different drinks. Tickets are $250 for adults, and embrace meals, drink, reside music and farm excursions!
“This 12 months’s occasion is a particular celebration of the tenth anniversary of Recent Roots’ first schoolyard farm,” explains Alexa Pitoulis, Recent Roots Government Director. “It will likely be an unforgettable culinary night on the oasis of our city farm—all in help of farm-based studying and management for teenagers and youth throughout Metro Vancouver.”
The night will start with cocktail hour at 5:30pm. Company will select between craft alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks accompanied by a grazing desk composed of domestically produced elements and the perfect of the season’s native harvest. Throughout cocktail hour, visitors are inspired to mingle and wander via the plush schoolyard farm to expertise the work of Recent Roots firsthand on the peak of golden hour. Educated workers and former youth contributors will probably be keen to supply farm excursions and inform visitors about their private experiences with Recent Roots.
At 6:30pm diners will take their seats to bask in a locally-focused multi-course meal ready by Governor Common’s Award-winning Chef Robert Clark, and Chef Julian Bond (Natural Ocean Seafood), Chef TJ Conwi (Ono Vancouver), acclaimed Pastry Chef Fumiko Moreton (Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre), and Chef Derrick Sibayan (Holts Café), plus drinks from Ward’s Cider, Persephone Brewing Firm, and Edna’s Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Firm.
All funds raised on the Schoolyard Farm Longtable Dinner profit Recent Roots’ youth applications. Over the previous decade, Recent Roots has launched into an inspiring and transformative journey, empowering younger individuals to grow to be meals residents and land stewards. Contributors discover ways to develop and promote meals via planting, harvesting, and dealing at farmer’s markets. They develop helpful farming and entrepreneurial expertise whereas additionally nurturing their self-confidence and talent to work successfully as a workforce.
Companions of Recent Roots 2023 Schoolyard Harvest Longtable Dinner embrace: Natural Ocean, Windsor Meats, Persephone Brewing Firm, 33 Acres Brewing Co., Edna’s Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Firm, Wards Cider, Wize Iced Tea, Ono Vancouver, KPU Richmond Farm, UBC Farm, Cropthorne Farm, Terra Breads, Earnest Ice Cream, TMRW Meals, Unfold ‘Em Kitchen Co., Legends Haul, KMComms, plus further beneficiant companions to be introduced within the days to return.
Schoolyard Harvest Longtable Dinner tickets are on sale now by way of Eventbrite.
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Recent Roots City Farm Society
GROWING FOOD GROWING COMMUNITY! Recent Roots City Farm Society envisions a world the place everybody has entry to wholesome meals, land, and neighborhood. This non-profit group works to domesticate participating gardens and applications that catalyze wholesome consuming, ecological stewardship, and neighborhood celebration. Recent Roots helps faculties and college districts throughout Metro Vancouver develop neighborhood via rising meals. Working with quite a lot of companions and shoppers, it makes use of faculty gardens to offer alternatives for inquiry-based and cross-curricular studying, volunteering, management improvement, and job abilities coaching that animate faculty communities throughout the Decrease Mainland.
Web site: freshroots.ca
Fb: @freshrootsfarms
Instagram: @freshrootsfarms
Twitter: @freshrootsfarms
Program & Media Contacts:
Alexa Pitoulis
Government Director, Recent Roots
alexa@freshroots.ca | 778-883-2599
Katharine Manson,
Media Relations, KMComms
katharine@kmcomms.com | 604 318 9690