My name is Bonnie. I’ve lived in Kelowna for 15 years. I have a certificate in Horticulture and Landscape Design from Okanagan College, and I own a landscape company called Everything Green.
What is your favourite locally-sourced food?
Tomatoes! Right from my own garden!
If you were a vegetable, what would you be?
A tomato. There are hundreds of varieties.
What’s something you’ve learned from Chefs in the Classroom?
How much fun it is to work with grade 3 students. They are like sponges, soaking up everything we are teaching them. It’s fun too to gross them out showing them all the worms in the compost.
Do you have a favourite kid-friendly recipe you’d like to share?
Blend any fruit you love with yogurt, then freeze them in popsicle trays. Delicious!
What makes volunteering with Chefs in the Classroom awesome?
I have met so many people who share my love for gardening & eating all the great produce we grow!
Anything else you’d like to share with the class?
I grow a lot of different produce for local restaurants, although I don’t have a farm I have extensive raised beds (15!) on my property which allows me to grow many vegetables, herbs, culinary flowers, berries and fruit. “My office is my garden.” One year I planted 20 varieties of tomatoes – over 1000 plants!