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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.
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Happening today! From 2-3pm, Una will speak to what homesteading looks like in our modern times, their lifestyle —the joys and challenges —as well as discuss how to "fill your larder!" Una is an incredible presenter and you will have a great time as she engages and teaches and shares a lot of passion for creating a resilient local food system!
Registration is appreciated so we can have an idea of attendees.
Please fill in the form here : forms.gle/72vUYYA9pg5Yfx2N7
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 Buckerfield's Salmon Arm conference room to avoid standing at the tills!
Live on Friday at 9am, tune in to hear Warren's conversation with Danielle Nierenberg of the Food Tank, a non-profit global food security initiative based in Baltimore, Maryland. Danielle is fresh off her trip to COP22 in Egypt and will share with Warren her experiences there, and some of the initiatives that the Food Tank is undertaking to address domestic and global food issues by highlighting how hunger, obesity, climate change, unemployment, and other problems can be solved by more research and investment in sustainable agriculture.
Join Warren Bell on Shuswap Food Conversations Friday at 9:00 am, repeating Monday at 5:00pm and Thursday at 8:00 pm on CKVS 93.7FM, Voice of the Shuswap Community Radio .
Thank you to Askew's Foods for their continuing financial support of our community radio station and this program.
Be sure to check out their Home Chefs contest where you can win a $100 store gift certificate for making dinner!
www.askewsfoods.com/homechefs
www.askewsfoods.com/weekly-recipes
Add these hashtags: #askewshomechef #shuswap #askewsfoods
Our December calendar for Sunday Sessions for Self-Sufficiency! Are you interested in preserving foods, making healthy ferments and your own bread? This is our focus this month!
This Sunday from 2-3pm, Una St. Clair of HighCroft Farm will speak to what homesteading looks like in our modern times, their lifestyle —the joys and challenges —as well as discuss how to "fill your larder!" Una is an incredible presenter and you will have a great time as she engages and teaches and shares a lot of passion for creating a resilient local food system!
Registration is appreciated so we can have an idea of attendees.
Please fill in the form here : forms.gle/72vUYYA9pg5Yfx2N7
Sunday Dec 11th 2-3pm is with Melanie Bennett of Shuswap Food Action teaching the basics of fermentation and just how simple it is to get started. We’ll make a batch of sauerkraut to see the process and we can sample a variety of different ferments. Fermentation is magic (aka: science) and so good for us so we can discuss the health benefits as well.
Register here: forms.gle/ofB9KsUiAU4euYm47
Sunday Dec 18th 2-3pm is with Nicole Albisser of Let it Bee Farm who will be showing us the magic (aka: science) of sourdough and how we can make a delicious loaf (or many) for Christmas time!
Register here: forms.gle/k2MUEhCzmuRqnUVU6
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 Buckerfield's Salmon Arm conference room to avoid standing at the tills!
Learning these skills — gardening, harvesting, preserving and cooking — will help us all to achieve more food security and better health! The more self-sufficient we are the more community-sufficient we will be too!
#bettertogethershuswap
We're excited about the Downtown Holiday Market this weekend and are thrilled by the amount of vendors coming and the Winter Wonderland out there, building the festive atmosphere!!!
Put on your warm clothes and join us on Hudson Avenue from 11-2 pm at our second annual Christmas market! We will have all our regular food vendors, plus 20+ craft vendors, to get all your holiday needs.
Santa is coming to wish us a Merry Christmas and a "Tuba Christmas" will be playing on stage with brave fingers.
Shuswap Food Action will serve hot apple cider with Unusually Good Food Co. fresh-pressed juice and there is a Rotary Club of Salmon Arm Chili Taste-Off, so lots to see and eat!
Many events to participate in over the next number of weeks! Support our Shuswap farmers, food producers & local businesses and enjoy the fun of it all!
Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market
Downtown Salmon Arm
Coming up this month for Sunday Sessions for Self-Sufficiency, we are focused on forms of preservation and great food!
This upcoming Sunday, Dec 4th, we host Una St. Clair of HighCroft Farm with her Session called "Planned Peasanthood!"
Food is a necessity, we all agree,
And it sure ain’t fun to gnaw on a tree!
We need protein and fruits, veggies and more,
And what do we do if there ain't no store!
But wait, here we are in a glorious land,
Where it's easy and fun to lend a helping hand.
Be you baker or butcher or just grow beets,
Fresh local foods are the ultimate treats
So together we can grow all the foods that we need,
And if we stick to that plan, we will all be freed!
~ Una
From 2-3pm, Una will speak to what homesteading looks like in our modern times, their lifestyle —the joys and challenges —as well as discuss how to "fill your larder!" Una is an incredible presenter and you will have a great time as she engages and teaches and shares a lot of passion for creating a resilient local food system!
Registration is appreciated so we can have an idea of attendees.
Please fill in the form here : forms.gle/72vUYYA9pg5Yfx2N7
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 Buckerfield's Salmon Arm conference room to avoid standing at the tills!
HighCroft Farm is an off-grid family farm, which uses a combination of innovative and traditional farming methods considered sustainable and beneficial to people, animals and the environment over the long term. Our goal is to support a vibrant and sustainable "food healthy" community in the Shuswap. Learn more about their farm and the food they produce here
www.facebook.com/HighCroftFarm/
highcroftoffgrid.wixsite.com/mysite
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We will CANCEL this Sunday Session for tomorrow due to a lack of confirmation of participation. It's really important that the speaker has an audience on a day off!
Stay tuned for the December calendar. If you have ideas for topics, please let us know! What do you want to learn about?
Listen live tomorrow morning, Friday, Nov. 25th, at 9am, where Robin Scheil and Maylene Loveland of Loveland Acres Farm in Silver Creek will join Warren in studio for a discussion about their experience establishing a small organic farm in the Shuswap.
Join Warren Bell on Shuswap Food Conversations Friday at 9:00 am, repeating Monday at 5:00pm and Thursday at 8:00 pm on Voice of the Shuswap CKVS-FM 93.7.
You can also tune in tonight at 8:00pm for a repeat airing of last week's conversation with our own Serena Caner and Melanie Bennett, This conversation focuses on the many projects and programs sponsored by SFAS including the School Food program, Community Teaching Garden and the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser set for February 25, 2023.
We want to thank Warren Bell and Tom Grady for continuing this educational project/program in partnership with Shuswap Food Action and Voice of the Shuswap CKVS-FM 93.7. There are MANY conversations you can listen to under the podcast link on their website. SO MUCH to learn from people right here in the Shuswap about our local food economy.
voiceoftheshuswap.ca/podcast-library/#warrenbell
voiceoftheshuswap.ca/podcast-library/#stevecorrie
voiceoftheshuswap.ca/podcast-library/#jerrepaquette
And a HUGE thank you to Askew's Foods for their continuing financial support of our community radio station and this program.
Be sure to check out their Home Chefs contest where you can win a $100 store gift certificate for making dinner!
www.askewsfoods.com/homechefs
www.askewsfoods.com/weekly-recipes
Add these hashtags: #askewshomechef #shuswap #askewsfoods
www.instagram.com/lovelandacres/
This was one year ago and it's still important to keep these reminders top of mind. At the moment we aren't seeing the big holes like we did then but we're seeing some drastic price hikes for items. Forecasts of where prices and availability from global suppliers are going are not positive which is WHY now is the time to be investing in our local food economy. Like then, the message is this "support our farmers in times of good so that they'll be there in times of bad". Shuswap Farmers are an incredible resource to us all and should be treated with great respect, much like we treat many other professions, as that is what a Farmer is — a professional food grower — and we wouldn't be standing without them. Thank you to our Shuswap Farmers! Tag some locals in the comments!
WE, the people, are responsible for what happens next as WE, the people, create change where our dollars are spent. That can be with our farmers and with some seed packs and grow lights. Yes, you can grow your own too! It's up to us to shift our own perspectives on what and how we eat. It's time for a radical change in how we eat - which we could say is THE biggest factor in climate solutions.
Check out Shuswap Food Action Society's website, www.shuswapfood.ca and become a member and volunteer! We can use your support to keep growing our projects and mission of creating community around local food.
Join with us! Become part of the solutions!
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shuswapfood.ca/membership/
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