The Roots to Harvest Urban Farm is home is nestled in the Grandview neighbourhood of Port Arthur, right next door to the Volunteer Pool Community Centre. 

With just under 1/2 acre under production, this site hosts our two seasonal employment programs, an active apiary, and grows many different types of fruits and vegetables. Food grown goes to market, is donated to local food security agencies and is used in school programming and cafeterias. 

Using season extension techniques, small cultivation machines and hand tools crops are planted,weeded, and harvested by participants of both the Urban Farm Intern Program and the Urban Youth Garden Program. 

The public is welcome to visit the garden anytime, walk through and enjoy the space with friends, family, pets or alone. It's a lovely place to pass time and take in all the goodness of the land. We can also arrange organized tours of the site. 
Roots to Harvest, in partnership with the City of Thunder Bay and Rutter Urban Forestry, and with funding from TD Friends of the Environment Fund, Trees Canada and T-Bay Tel for Good, transformed a small underused city parkette into a productive and bountiful Edible Urban Forest. 

Featuring apple and plum trees, multiple types of wild berries and wild forage-ables (fiddleheads, mushrooms), the Edible Food Forest aims to highlight how green spaces can be used to promote wellness and educate the public on the diversity of fruits which can be grown in a northern climate. 

In time, the space will fill in with layers of different edibles surrounding the trees and landscapes and will be a legacy in the neighbourhood. Everyone is welcome to enjoy this space at any time, sample the fruits and berries and help us steward it. We can also arrange organized tours and/or workshops of the site. 
We're so excited to get this site growing! In a new and exciting partnership with the Lakehead District School Board, Roots to Harvest will be developing this large piece of property starting in spring, 2017. It will feature large production spaces, perennial fruits, open pollinated varieties for seed saving, educational growing spaces and training aspects for the community. 
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It will be home to community events and our employment programs, and will become a vibrant hub in the south end of Thunder Bay. Stay tuned!