What's Happening in the Galiano Food Program...
This years Nettlefest will be happening on March 17th at 5:30pm at the South Community Hall.
Nettle Picking starts at 11am. Meet at the Community Hall with baskets, clippers and GLOVES to Carpool to the picking spot.
Kitchen starts at 11:30am at the hall. Volunteers will be making Nettle Bread and soup together.
Nettle Vendors are welcome to set up a table in the hall during the day. Contact us if you’re interested.
Potluck Dinner starts at 5:30pm.
This year we will be having two competitions:
The first: The Best Nettle Dish: Bring your favourite nettle dish. No restrictions on type. A panel of judges will choose their favourite.
The second competition: The Best Nettle Product: Serious or funny – your choice! All entrants will get a chance to “pitch” their product. Winners determined by the audience applause!
Come sing your nettle song or read your spring poem !
Come get involved in this annual Galiano celebration of Spring!!!
COME SATISFY YOUR APPETITE....
- to grow food for yourself, your family and your community
- to work with others
- to learn about soil, planting and harvesting techniques and orchard care
Cable Bay and Sunshine Farms are offering to collaborate in creative and innovative ways
- 50 foot irrigated allotment beds
- forming a potato coop
- growing community crops
- learning, labour and food exchanges
BRING YOUR IDEAS OF HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
Let’s Occupy our Food System !
Come be part of the Spring Fever to take some control of our own food production as well as working amongst friends of all ages.
Explore these ideas with community, Food Program coordinators and the farmers
THURSDAY , MARCH 22 @ 7 pm at the Community Hall
Monday March 5th, at 5:30pm at the South Community Hall.
Come together with your neighbours to cook and eat together. We will be making Vegetarian soup, homemade burritos, and a salad. There will be lots of food to take home, and freeze.
Cost is $15-$20 sliding scale.
RSVP to Alison at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com
Next meeting Friday, March 2nd at 11am. Each one of our meetings is entirely unique and evolves out of the interests that people bring to it. Although topics and concerns vary, the underlying theme is always deepening our connection with nature.
We will be checking on the olive cuttings I started from the Olive branches I brought back from Tinos. – Dora FitzGerald
Starts Group: Get a jump on the growing season ! Learn what to start and when as well as how to make great potting mixes. Planning meeting Sun. Feb 26, 11 am @ the greenhouse.
First plantings Sunday, March 4 @ 11 am
Thank You!
Thanks to our many funders (Vancouver Foundation, the Victoria Foundation, DASH BC, VanCity, the Vancouver Island health Authority, the YMCA, New Horizons For Seniors initiative of the Government of Canada, United Way of Greater Victoria, our local Parks and Recreation Commission and many members of the Galiano community), we were able to launch the Galiano Community Food Program in 2008 and keep it running ever since.