Projects In Place provides Permit Drawings for Newest SOLEfood Site

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

I don’t know what I was expecting when Seann Dorry told me he had a couple new sites he neede me to work on for the expansion of SOLEfood, but it certainly wasn’t nearly a hectare of prime Vancouver
waterfront!!

We were proud to help put the permit drawings for this site – and even prouder to that seeds have started to sprout!

Lots more going on at SOLEfood these days. Check out SOLEfood’s website for more info. In the meantime, drop by the new Farm on Pacific Ave…

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Demolition Day!! Pacific Heights Co-Op Playground

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Our friend Tasha and other residents over at the Pacific Housing Co-Op have been busy lately. Check out these photos of the demo of the old playground.

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Projects in Place at Epic

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Having fun building our first beehive.
Thanks to all of those who came to Epic and gave us hand!

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ING Direct Cafe’s Indoor Veggie Garden (Day 5)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

We’ve been helping our friends at ING Direct Care plant a little indoor veggie garden. A little bit of our green roof technology, a little bit of soil, a cool orange wheelbarrow, and some organic seeds and presto – A Hydroponic Organic Veggie Garden!

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Planting Seeds at Science World today (and again tomorrow)

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

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The Strathcona Green Zone Resource Park

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

We have been working with the Strathcona Business Improvement Association (BIA) on an innovative program designed to divert food, reusable and recyclable waste from participating businesses within the Strathcona BIA from our waste stream – and provides jobs in the process.

The Strathcona Green Zone Resource Park will utilize modified shipping containers to house waste materials and greenhouse enclosures for a close-coupled composting system which will provide a small urban farm with a constant supply of fertilizer and soil amendments.

The project will also provide members of the community with an opportunity for skill development and employment.

The project is currently in the Development Permit application process. Construction early spring.

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Did You Know That Large Sections of Hastings Street Don’t Have Trees?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Sad, but true!

But there is hope. We are working with the Strathcona Business Improvement Association’s to help make their Urban Tree Nursery a reality.

Tree planters will be installed on Hastings Street, in hopes to beautify the otherwise barren streetscape. The planters will feature a range of attractive native plants and will be run as a full fledged nursery maintained by people with employment barriers. As the trees grow, they will be harvested and then sold at a neighbourhood plant sale. The planters will then be filled with new plant material to allow the project to be an annual event.

Projects In Place, along with industrial designer, YarOn Stern have been working design the planters and develop the maintenance and planting protocol for the new employees to follow. Construction in early spring 2012.

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