GISS Garden to Market Initiative

03/28/2024

Just found the first cucumber of the season, tomato plants are flowering, and we have thousands of heads of lettuce!

01/25/2024

We have harvested most of our winter greens, there are a few chard growing on the wall system. The main system is full of baby lettuce, and we have over 1000 starts in the greenhouse.

11/12/2023

A nice article on School District 64, and the Cafeteria program at GISS, pages 24-25, in this month's edition of the BC Teachers Magazine.

Gulf Islands local profile; Melanin Magic: A case for BIPOC groups in schools; Remembering Indigenous soldiers

11/08/2023

Sill cooking and creating dishes in the Caf. Today a couple of students made tofu from scratch!

06/15/2023

First ripe tomato of the season. There will be a lot more in the next few weeks. We planted over 120 plants this spring.

06/14/2023

First cucumber harvest of the season!

04/17/2023

Another busy morning in the kitchen. Homemade corn tortillas, lasagna noodles, and penne pasta, lasagna noodles, and penne pasta.

03/10/2023

A couple of meals from the Cafeteria yesterday. Chicken and waffles with honey rosemary apples in a bacon collar. Falafels on pita, salsa, and house-grown radish sprouts.

02/16/2023

Just harvested the last of our beets and carrots we planted last spring

02/15/2023

We are still creating delicious and healthy meals. Yesterday's lunch: Sous vide and grilled striploin, oven-baked potato wedges, and param ham and asparagus bundles. BBQ chicken dumb sticks, root vegetable puree in potato crisp collars, and grilled zucchini.