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November 23, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – Simon Fraser University __________________________________________ SFU Local Food Project presents Growing Food in the City: Meet Your Maker a speaker series and dialogue with local leaders in urban agriculture Tuesday No… Organized by Charlene Ponto | Type: speaker, series, and, dialogue
May 1, 2011 at 9am to May 24, 2011 at 7pm – parks, gardens and alleys around Vancouver Designed for simplicity and depth, this course looks at 1 medicine plant each month for 8 months, balancing time in the field with the Living Plants and time in the kitchen working the raw material i… Organized by garliq | Type: educational, &, playful, workshop, series
May 31, 2011 at 7pm to June 21, 2011 at 8:30pm – Beautiful Parks and Community Gardens around Van What do you see in the green? Identifying edible and medicinal plants around Vancouver This class is all about identifying edible and medicinal plants around Vancouver. Using some basic botany, stud… Organized by garliq | Type: herb, walk, series, workshops
October 19, 2012 from 7pm to 8pm – Roundhouse Community Centre Join local forager/chef Alexander McNaughton (Umami Consulting/Late Nite Art) for a fascinating and tasty workshop on foraging, growing and harvesting what most people think of as ‘weeds’ that are ta… Organized by Bonita Jo Magee | Type: sustenance, festival, grounded, in, vancouver, workshop, series
October 20, 2012 from 1pm to 3:30pm – Roundhouse Community Centre Join David Asher, an organic farmer and farmstead cheesemaker from Mayne Island, as we explore the fascinating realm of cheese. David will demonstrate and explain the techniques for making 3 basic st… Organized by Bonita Jo Magee | Type: sustenance, festival, grounded, in, vancouver, workshop, series
October 21, 2012 from 11am to 12pm – Roundhouse Community Centre Reduce the toxins in your home. Join Bonita Jo Magee for this hands-on workshop making the 3 most popular green household cleaner recipes from David Suzuki’s Queen of Green Lindsay Coulter: Borax-fre… Organized by Bonita Jo Magee | Type: sustenance, festival, grounded, in, vancouver, workshop, series
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Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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