Unexpected Eats

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Last updated on

Friday, September 12th, 2025

Experience type:

In-Person

Program Description

“You can eat that???” Yes, you can! Explore often overlooked foods on our farms and in our indigenous plant garden as you learn about ethical foraging and some of the traditional food and medicine uses of common plants.

Big Ideas

All living things sense and respond to their environment.

The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.

Personal choices and social and environmental factors influence our health and well-being.

Understanding ourselves and the various aspects of health helps us develop a balanced lifestyle.

Daily physical activity enables us to practice skillful movement and helps us develop personal fitness.

Personal choices and social and environmental factors influence our health and well-being.

Understanding ourselves and the various aspects of health helps us develop a balanced lifestyle.

Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.

Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Natural resources continue to shape the economy and identity of different regions of Canada.

Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.

Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.

The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.

Trip Details

City:

Coquitlam

For Grades:

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Months Available:

April, May, June, September, October

Days Offered:

Wednesday, Friday

Times Offered:

9:30 am, 12:30 pm

Duration:

See notes. minutes unless otherwise stated.

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

Also Offered For:

ESL, Guides, Homeschool, Other

Packages Provided:

Pre-Visit Information Package

Fee Details

Fee Notes:

Small class (15 students or fewer): $150

16 to 22 students: $220

23 to 30 students: $300

SD43 Discount! All SD43 classes will receive a 20% discount on their field trips and farm bookings.

We strive to make our programs accessible to all groups. If cost is a barrier, please send an email to education@freshroots.ca.

Additional Notes

A field trip to the Suwa’lkh Medicine Garden and Healing Forest at Millside Centre in Coquitlam (map) is like no other Fresh Roots field trip. Our program space includes a native plant propagation greenhouse, medicine and food gardens, small orchard, and a seven-acre forest with a forest classroom and a salmon stream. Field trips at Suwa’lkh incorporate First People’s ways of knowing, helping students connect with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, in both cultivated and natural food lands. Coquitlam field trips have been designed in consultation with Indigenous knowledge keeper Carrie Clark and are co-facilitated, whenever possible, with an Indigenous knowledge keeper.

We strongly suggest a 1:8 ratio of adults to students for grades 4-5 and 1:10 for grades 6-12. Required adults are included in the group cost. If your group needs more adult assistance, please let us know on the registration form.

Learn more and book your trip at https://freshroots.ca/learn-on-the-farm/.

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