Green onions got their groove on in a song written by Booker T. Jones in the 1960s. Move over green onions: The North Shore’s Edible Garden Project lets cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and other veggies and fruits get the attention they deserve too. “We share, we farm and we teach. The Edible Garden Project is all about getting fresh, local farm produce, grown locally, to the people in our community who need it the most,” explains Emily Jubenvill, Program Manager, Edible Garden Project at the North Shore Neighbourhood House. The Edible Garden Project started as a way to address a gap in food security on the North Shore. Since its inception in 2006, the project has grown and distributed over 10 tonnes of fruits and vegetables to those most in need on the North Shore. As we celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s a good time to be reminded of people less fortunate in our community. The program is part of the North Shore Neighbourhood House. United Way is one of the funders of the Edible Garden Project as well as the North Shore Neighbourhood. The Edible Garden Project encompasses 12 sharing gardens, six daycare gardens, and two social enterprise farms, Loutet Farm and the Sutherland Schoolyard Market Garden. Children who attend the Daycare Garden program learn all about where food comes from and about eating healthy. They also get to dig in the dirt at Loutet Farm. “Last year we grew about 8,000 pounds at Loutet Farm and about 5,000 pounds at the sharing farms,” said Emily. One in five children live in poverty in B.C. Most of those children live in the Lower Mainland. One of the ways United Way works to move people from poverty to possibility is by making sure that their basic needs are met, like nutritional food. Behind every changed life is someone who made it happen. That someone is you. Please give. 
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