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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: [From the archives] Where heaven meets Earth: Vancouver’s Jewish community now grows fresh fruit and veggies on the rooftop
Description: The Jewish festival of Tu b'Shevat begins this Sunday. The new year for trees. Some people feel it's the Jewish version of Earth Day: a day to care for the environment. While much of Canada is still in the deep freeze of winter, the people who run Vancouver’s Jewish Community Garden are itching to get their rubber boots on soon, and go up to the rooftop of the two-storey parking structure located between Congregation Beth Israel synagogue and the VTT, The Vancouver Talmud Torah, where the garden is located..
This spring, the garden will begin its th...