What could Champlain learn from Vanier and The Green School?

As I observed on our visit to Vanier, this CEGEP has a lot of sustainability initiatives. They put a lot of efforts and try to be the greenest they can. First, something that I found really interesting was their garden, where they grow food. They grow the ‘’three sisters’’, which are corn, squash and beans. They have another garden, which is the ‘’Food forest’’. This is where they have small trees that give, for example, fruits. Another spectacular initiative that they mentioned was that they use plasticulture. They use plastic instead of chemicals, to stop unwanted plants to sprout on their…