We would like to thank everyone who came out on Friday to our 2026 Epic Seedling sale. All of our vendors essentially sold out of their seedlings, and left very happy. A special thank you to our vendors Hamidou Horticulture, Coop Cultivaction, City Herbal Apprenticeship, mind.heart.mouth, Iris Clay Works, and COL Art & Wellness forContinueContinue reading “2026 Seedling Sale Wrap”
Category Archives: City Herbal Apprenticeship
Do you need compost for your summer garden?
As every gardener knows, soil quality is one of the most important factors when starting a garden and growing delicious fruits and vegetables. Healthy soil provides plants with the nutrients they need to grow, and fertilizers help replenish those nutrients in forms that plants can absorb and use effectively. That’s…
2026 City Herbal Apprenticeship Program
Join our Herbal Apprenticeship Program and immerse yourself in the world of plant medicine! The City Herbal Apprenticeship Program is for anyone who wants to learn how to grow, identify, harvest, use, and apply herbs in a hands-on, collective setting. As an herbal apprentice, you will gain experience tending to our perennial garden, where we cultivate and care for a variety of medicinal plants, and will learn how to make your own herbal medicines, such as tea blends, tinctures, glycerites, salves, oils, and more
Epic Seedling Sale 2026
The Epic Seedling Sale is officially back, and we’re excited to welcome it once again into our community space. After a year of uncertainty and limited growing capacity, this event marks a meaningful return to sharing plants, knowledge, and resources with students and the wider community. This year’s sale features a variety of seedlings grown by local groups and community partners…
TWO Herbal Garden Internships (Spring/Summer 2026) — POSITIONS FILLED
The Concordia Greenhouse Project is seeking two enthusiastic Herbal Garden Interns as part of their City Herbal Apprenticeship Program (CHAP) to join our team in supporting the care and maintenance of our perennial herb garden at the Loyola Campus. Working alongside the CHAP Coordinator and Concordia Greenhouse Project staff, the interns will gain hands-on experience…
Things are Changing
Hey everyone! It has been a hot minute since we wrote a blog post, but we thought – heck why not! We just relaunched the website, and you all deserve an update. As many of you already know Dom (Outreach & Communications) is on a temporary leave of absence to pursue new possibilities. During hisContinueContinue reading “Things are Changing”
Spring Jobs and Courses
CHAP Food Forest & Engagement Assistant Must be a current Concordia Undergraduate Student to apply $22/hr at 10 hrs/week for 17 weeks (May 6 – August 31, 2024) Along with the City Herbal Apprenticeship Program (CHAP) Coordinator and staff members of the Concordia Greenhouse, the Food Forest & Engagement Assistant will aid our team inContinueContinue reading “Spring Jobs and Courses”
City Herbal Apprenticeship Program 2023
Image of CFS plot, Provided by Kelly Zwicker Dear friends of City Farm School, As many of you may know, City Farm School ceased offering the well-loved Market Gardener Apprenticeship in 2022. Because of this, we’ve decided to change our project’s name to the City Herbal Apprenticeship Program (CHAP) to better reflect our current offerings andContinueContinue reading “City Herbal Apprenticeship Program 2023”