When was the last time you were able to pronounce all of the ingredients in your meal?
The Urban Seed Project allows you to grow your own food and take control of what you eat. It was started in the Downtown Eastside Vancouver to create sustainable vegetable gardens for people with little to no yard space.
The project focuses on community involvement and showing children the benefits of gardening and growing your own food. It has a Truck Farm that drives around the city to teach children not only about growing, but about cooking and nutrition as well.
It packages seeds that are non-GMO, free of chemical treatment and openly pollinated. There are also various combinations of vegetables and herbs, such as “Quick and Dirty,” an array of dwarf gray sugar peas, miniature white cucumbers, French breakfast radishes and caracas carrots.
If you don’t have a green thumb, don’t worry. There are starter kits, step-by-step instructions on every package and recipes that make planting (and eating healthy foods) easy. They even have seed kits aimed specifically at kids so no one is left out of the farming fun.
Proceeds help food-growing programs in Vancouver and create job opportunities for people living on disability and welfare.
