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.
A beautiful day to learn all about making the most of your garden this year and increase the biodiversity of your soil!
Today, Sunday, Mar 19th from 2-3pm will be Permaculture for the Home Garden and Building Healthy Soil with Elmarie Roberts
Held at Buckerfield's Salmon Arm
Registration appreciated forms.gle/uibm12pRLvcx5SpJ7 in their upstairs conference room.
Growing our own food has never been more important! From the improvement in one’s health, cost savings for your household, community engagement aka: sharing, and reducing our individual impact on the environment, growing and raising food for ourselves, family and community has so many positive benefits!
See you there!
We want to thank Salmon Arm Observer for sharing stories in the last few weeks about Shuswap Food Action, food security and also the Coldest Night of the Year Salmon Arm!
There are some BIG HUGE issues and we can all see them! While Shuswap Food Action is not able to create solutions for housing, we can help with food security. It is not an easy task but there are solutions!
We encourage everyone who CAN grow food this year to do so! Grow for your family and your health and grow EXTRA to SHARE! Grow a Row meant to provide fresh produce to our community!
Come lend a hand this year at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden and learn how to grow your own food, take a little home if you need and help us grow as much food as we can to share with the Second Harvest -Shuswap
If you have a garden and fruit trees, consider sharing your extra with your community by donating it to Second Harvest -Shuswap and the Salmon Arm Ministries - The Salvation Army.
We'd love folks to be a part of the Lighthouse Community Food Forest this year! Take part for work bees and learning opportunities. Learn more by going to Lekker Land Design and seeing the events posted. Each month on the second Wednesday, there will be a tour and work bee!
We will continue hosting educational gardening sessions through the Spring and Summer too at the gardens so stay tuned at www.shuswapfood.ca/events
If you have time to help out with cooking for kids, we can use volunteers able to help with cooking at our school meal programs and also for Souper Meals. Contact Serena at info@shuswapfood.ca to learn how to get involved!
Our Farmers Market is bi-weekly until May when it will become weekly once again! Keep our farmers farming and be sure to head down to the Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market to find seasonal produce! Learn more about the BC Nutrition Coupons at the Shuswap Family Resource Centre and how you may be able to access those to shop at the Farmers Markets.
We have many ideas in the works but BIG ideas do need minds and bodies so if you are interested in helping us to develop more ways to bring about access to local food, we'd love to hear from you. Sign up as a volunteer at www.shuswapfood.ca/volunteer
www.saobserver.net/news/shuswap-food-action-shuswap-has-capacity-to-feed-everyone-in-region/?fbcl...
www.saobserver.net/news/stretching-dollars-i-never-missed-a-meal-and-my-son-never-missed-a-meal/?...
We have a Sunday Session Swap! We need to change the schedule for our last 2 Sunday Sessions for Self Sufficiency!
This Sunday, Mar 19th from 2-3pm will be Permaculture for the Home Garden and Building Healthy Soil with Elmarie Roberts
Held at Buckerfield's Salmon Arm in their upstairs conference room.
Registration appreciated forms.gle/uibm12pRLvcx5SpJ7
Next Sunday, Mar 26th from 2-3pm Pruning Techniques and in-person demo on fruit trees and shrubs with Harriet Hanna
Held on location at the Salmon Arm Ministries - The Salvation Army Lighthouse Community Food Forest (unless terrible weather!)
Registration appreciated forms.gle/uibm12pRLvcx5SpJ7
We are SO GRATEFUL to the speakers who have come since November to share their time and knowledge to increase all our overall knowledge on how to Grow, Raise and Make our own Food and Medicine! Most of the talks have been recorded and are on our website at www.shuswapfood.ca/sunday-sessions
We thank all the attendees who have shown up to be there to learn, many coming week after week. Without an audience, events don't take place either so thank you for being there to learn and ask questions! And with those sliding scale fees, we have been able to raise money for the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden this year, ensuring we can continue to teach folks and grow food to share!
We invite you to learn with us at the Teaching Garden and the Food Forest this year, come lend a hand at work bees and harvest days so that you can learn while helping out! Children encouraged as these are wonderful skills for them to learn!
Be sure to like the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden page for specific updates and learn more about the Lighthouse Community Food Forest on its instagram page at www.instagram.com/lighthousefoodforest and the whole story here:
www.lekkerlanddesign.ca/design/projects/lighthouse-community-food-forest/
We encourage EVERYONE to grow some, most or all of your own food this year! If you have the space and capacity, we also encourage everyone to grow extra with the intention to share!
#eatlocalshuswap #growyourownfood #makeyourown #raiseyourownmeat #buildingcommunityaroundlocalfood #shuswapfoodaction #bettertogethershuswap #learningtogether #shuswap #salmon Arm
TODAY 2-3pm: Sunday Sessions for Self Sufficiency is about Pruning Principles with guest speaker Harriet Hanna!
Have you changed your clocks as we don't want you showing up at the end of the class!!!
See you there!
We want to THANK the many volunteers who are a part of our Society and to those who helped with Coldest Night of the Year Salmon Arm. This morning we highlight 2 women who came to our rescue... READY to rescue should anyone have needed during our event!
Salmon Arm Fire Department firefighters, Tammy Young & Kelsey Olive Gorgichuk chose to volunteer their time for CNOY 23 to be our Sweep Drivers and for us, knowing they were there makes the event feel safe! Thank you for being there for all of us!
Coming off of International Women's Day, here's 2 great articles about both of these women who both joined their fire departments as they saw it as a way to give back to the community.
Kelsey:
www.saobserver.net/news/citys-only-female-firefighter-feels-at-home-with-salmon-arm-crew/
Tammy:
www.saobserver.net/community/i-fell-in-love-with-it-salmon-arm-woman-always-wanted-to-be-a-firefi...
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Shuswap Food Action Society would like to acknowledge that it operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Secwepemc Peoples.