City Farmer News » Winnipeg http://www.cityfarmer.info New Stories From 'Urban Agriculture Notes' Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Charity Helps Out At Home Kids Benefit In Canada’s Back Yard http://www.cityfarmer.info/2007/12/23/charity-helps-out-at-home-kids-benefit-in-canadas-back-yard/ http://www.cityfarmer.info/2007/12/23/charity-helps-out-at-home-kids-benefit-in-canadas-back-yard/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:46:02 +0000 Michael Levenston http://www.cityfarmer.info/charity-helps-out-at-home-kids-benefit-in-canadas-back-yard/ “Heifer has provided a three-year grant of $150,000 to the program, which is operated at FortWhyte Alive, an environmental-education centre and farm on 263 hectares of land inside Winnipeg’s city limits. About 40 high-school students spend two hours working at the farm each week during the school year, and about eight are hired as full-time employees in the summer. Among other things, the teenagers grow and market vegetables, raise bees and run a honey business, and operate an aquaponics system featuring a 450-litre fish tank that is home to more than 200 tilapia.”

Link to news story here.

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