The Conservation Council’s Tula Newcomer Garden’s first successful season in Keswick Ridge was the subject of a CBC article published on Sept. 22. The twelve-hectare community farm was donated to the Conservation Council by Jim and Kay Bedell in the 1980s and has been the site of Canada’s first Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). This summer, it was used as a community training ground for new farmers and refugees looking to learn how to farm in Canadian soil.
“A lot of families that have come over recently from Syria were farmers back home. A lot of them aren’t currently employed, they are in English classes all day and they’re looking for a way to get outside, feed their families,” said Brittany MacLean with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick
“In the next season, or the season after that, we want them to be comfortable to maybe work a one-acre plot, and maybe start a business from that,” said MacLean.
Read the full article here.
Read all about our first planting dat at the Tula Newcomer Garden with Syrian Refugees.