Come Volunteer with us!
Did you know…the Shuswap Food Action Society is driven and funded primarily by community members like you? We're always looking for volunteers!
Whether it is helping chop vegetables for our school meal program, or planting seedlings at our garden, volunteering is a great way to meet others, have fun and make a positive impact on our community.
Also...Young Agrarians is looking to hire someone for their Land Matching Program in our region. Deadline is January 23. See details at: youngagrarians.org/hiring-land-matcher-okanagan/
Big thanks to all who supported our Family Box Program yesterday, including our volunteers and local farmers who grew and raised the food. With rising food costs, we know families are struggling to access a nutritious diet, especially fruit, vegetables and protein sources.
It is late January, and still all the food was sourced locally except for DeMille's Farm Market Grampa's Oranges (a treat trucked up from California by Brad himself) and kale (cold snap killed our kale). Special thanks to Bri from Madalea Growers who donated and delivered their frozen blueberries.
Vegetables like carrots, cabbage, onions, and potatoes are still available and are very versatile and have a long shelf life in your fridge! Be sure to come to the Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market next Saturday to support our Shuswap Farmers who have these veggies available to us!
You can also check in with Green Croft Gardens at the farm sales and Wild Flight Farm at their All-Organic Farmers' Market every second Wednesday.
We're thrilled to say... this class is FULL! We've maxed out our space Buckerfield's Salmon Arm. It seems to us that we'll have to look at doing another class in mid February to go over the information again.
Thank for the interest and it's a really exciting sign to us that many people are so interested in getting their gardens growing this year! The more we all grow, the more there will be to share with each other and to those who can use a hand up!
We're getting rollin' now!!! It's exciting to see the needle moving and we're so grateful to our Sponsors for Coldest Night of the Year 2023 for showcasing their support for our Society and this Shuswap community! These folks live, work and play here; they are community members too and want to see a thriving #shuswap!
Also... SASCU Community Crew is rockin' the donations and we want to acknowledge their team captain, Chrisi Davis who walks every year in Coldest Night with her family, cares about the cause and is an incredible fundraiser!
We want to direct our Shuswap Food Action supporters who are interested in being a part of the Coldest Night of the Year and want to come along on the 2023 journey with us to follow our Coldest Night of the Year Salmon Arm page where we'll share more stories, highlight teams, keep up the energy and ALSO raise AWARENESS about Food Security here in the Shuswap - what we're fundraising for!
Learn more about the event, how to walk with us, and our projects we're focused on this year at cnoy.org/salmonarm.
If you are a business who wants to become involved please email Melanie at projects@shuswapfood.ca
Join with us and be a part of the ACTION!
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#cnoy23 #coldestnightoftheyear #shuswap #bettertogethershuswap
This Sunday is the first Sunday Session for Self Sufficiency of 2023 and we're excited to get our minds germinating all about getting growing!
Join our Shuswap Community Teaching Garden mentor Sue Moore of Sudoa Farm and past organic farmer of Notch Hill Organic Farm and Nursery as she helps us to formulate a plan for this year!
We're all far more successful when we do some planning and can learn from others' knowledge - mistakes and accomplishments!
From 2-3 pm at Buckerfield's Salmon Arm in their upstairs conference room, come with your paper and pen and a desire to grow more of your own food this year!
Registration is appreciated so we can have an idea of attendees.
Please fill in the form here : forms.gle/YUyBNYWrcw7TUUhQ6
There is a sliding scale fee per Session to sustain the project and help support the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden. Choose between $5-15, payable upstairs in the conference room to avoid standing at the tills!
BCCDC released a new food security report, defining some terms.
"Food security means that everyone has equitable access to food that is affordable, culturally preferable, nutritious and safe; everyone has the agency to participate in, and
influence food systems; and that food systems are resilient, ecologically sustainable,
socially just, and honour Indigenous food sovereignty.
See the whole report at www.bccdc.ca/our-services/programs/food-security#Reports--&--resources
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