Fairview Community School

The Community Roots Food Garden at Fairview Community School features 15 raised vegetable beds along with a mixed native, fruit and berry garden. Nanaimo Foodshare provides weekly garden classes for students from K-5 to learn about growing, maintaining and harvesting fresh healthy food. Students especially love to grow and eat the fresh peas and salad greens. Food from the garden is used in the school's monthly Farm 2 School salad bars and community members love munching on fresh vegetables throughout the summer months. With funding from the Whole kIds Foundation we are planting apple and pear trees, currants and raspberries. We love attractign pollinators into our garden and have our very own mason bee houses.