Food Events
Upcoming Events:
Musicians For Farmers: a celebration of local food! February 20, 2010
Come for your fill of local food and music in support of Heliotrust, an Ecology Action Centre affiliate, whose projects include: farmland conservation, sustainable farming practices, biodiversity, and conserving and imparting rural wisdom.
Past Events:
The Edible Schoolyard
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Come to watch this inspiring film by Slow Food Nova Scotia and learn about the story of the Summerville community working with students, staff and friends of Dr. Arthur Hines Elementary School. The harvest goes beyond good local food; to include curiosity, community involvement and unexpected curriculum connections. Kathy Aldous will explain how they started the school garden at Dr. Arthur Hines Elementary School. Garity Chapman will present on community gardens from her recent research trip to New York, Philadelphia, Toronto and Montreal. Some great gardening draw prizes. Find out how you can get planting next spring at your school or in your community!
Organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network.
For more information, please phone: 902-454-6846, email nsen@cen-rce.org or visit us online at www.nsen.ca
Nova Scotia Food Summit
Securing Food for Our Healthy Future
October 18-20, 2009
Old Orchard Inn, Greenwich, NS
Do Nova Scotians have a secure supply of food? Should we continue to import most of our food? What’s the link between secure food and healthy food? What influences our ability to choose healthy food? What does farming contribute to the economy? What about climate change? Who wants to farm?
At the FOOD SUMMIT more that 35 outstanding Speakers will devote their considerable collective energy to addressing these and many more questions. They will be asking you to help identify the pieces that need to be carefully put together to create a picture of the food system we have, and the one we need.
Organized by Friends of Agriculture Nova Scotia
For more information visit the Friends of Agriculture website
Deconstructing Dinner, Thursday October 1, 2009
Jon Steinman, Kootenay Co-op Radio CJLY, will be giving a talk entitled:
Deconstructing Dinner for Resilient Food Secure Communities
Fragile Economies + Unstable Food Systems + Struggling Farmers + Food Safety and Human Health Concerns + An Unpredictable Changing Climate = Vulnerable Communities
Thursday October 1, 7:00 pm
Potter Family Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building,
Dalhousie University,
6050 University Avenue, Halifax NS
Presented by Dalhousie University College of Sustainability, CKDU, and the Ecology Action Centre.
For more information:-
http://sustainability.dal.ca
sustain@dal.ca
(902) 494 4581
Grow Your Own Shitake Mushrooms Workshop
Learn how to grow your own Shitake Mushrooms and create your own mushroom growing log to take home!
Location: Ecology Action Centre, 2705 Fern Lane, Halifax
Date: Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Registration: $20 per participant, and $30 per mushroom growing log. Tasty local lunch included.
For more information and to register, please contact:
Louise Hanavan
Tel: 475-1058
Food Action Committee
Phone: (902) 442–1077
Fax: (902) 405-3716
We meet at the EAC on the third Monday of every month at 5:30. We need new members committed to a vision of sustainability. And there is lots to do: research, education, organizing, lobbying. Get involved today!
