Online Newsletter | Fall 2013 | Page 2

CSA FEATURED IN LOCAL NEWS! CSA A Rocha’s CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) members are singing our praises! Not only have we heard their exclamations of delight as they pick up their weekly bins of veggies from our Brooksdale Environmental Centre, but we’ve been reading about their delight in emails and even local newspapers. Follow the link and read how Dora Ho, a Culinary Arts teacher in Richmond, BC, has experienced her own CSA involvement—an experience recently published in the Richmond News. A ROCHA INTERNS Each year over 30 young people, aged 18 and older, participate in the transformative experience of an A Rocha internship. They come to learn practical conservation, agriculture and environmental education skills, and they come away inspired and changed. Blog by Dora Ho, Culinary Arts Teacher in Richmond, BC read ONLINE Click here to read the full story online.. Laura, summer intern 2013 “As a young teenager in high school I knew I wanted a career that God would be proud of—a job that would make a difference in the world. I chose environmental studies three years ago because I wanted to work in God’s creation. This summer as an A Rocha intern I ?nally discovered what that actually means. I have learnt how to care for creation and I feel as if God has relit a ?re within me.”