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.
Garden Work Bee Today at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden! Come learn-while-doing and help grow beautiful food for our community!
Spinach to take home & FREE seeds to volunteers as well thanks to Nico's Nurseryland! ... See MoreSee Less
Market Day Today! Support our #shuswapfarmers and let's celebrate our SHU Food! ... See MoreSee Less
Many hands make light work! And hands are needed this week to get the @shucommunityteachgarden ready for the heat wave that we're being told is coming!
Tomorrow, Friday the 24th from 9-12 and Saturday from 9-11
Kids are encouraged! Come have them learn about how food grows and also what it means to be a volunteer in a community.
There's room to play and learn!
We can harvest tomorrow and take fresh greens to Second Harvest too!
It takes a village to raise and child and it will take our children to become leaders to steer our future villages! It's up to us adults to help hone those skills, whether you're a parent or not! We are the examples and we've got this great place to be excellent examples 😉
We're here through the summer and happy to host classes, do tours, have a party- whatever we can come up with!
Contact Melanie at projects@shuswapfood.can with questions! ... See MoreSee Less
A little late 🙃 but here's the June Shuswap Community Teaching Garden calendar! If you are interested in coming to help grow this garden, learn while doing, and be a part of this project, please see the days that we have work going on and come on up!
Friday Work Bee this week and Saturday too with emphasis on Permaculture Q&A and working along with Elmarie as she continues on with the Perma Display Garden!
Please note the LCFF - Lighthouse Community Food Forest - is being added in as a place of learning and Wednesday mornings as a time to take part in this downtown community project! ... See MoreSee Less
Today is the Day! Come celebrate FOOD with a Community Potluck at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden!
A few details:
🟠 Potluck at 5:30 where we challenge you to try for as locally produced a dish or product. Think fresh, think seasonal. (No power to keep things hot ...)
🟠 This is a BYOE event (Bring your own everything!) as we don't have a facility there for plates, chairs etc. Please bring your own items to eat with, a folding chair or a blanket to picnic on.
🟠 Lucky us, we have a new local coffee company, 6 Beans Roasting, bringing their coffee to serve as their potluck item (and also some bags for sale!)
🟠 We'll be making a big fresh salad from the garden and a fresh herb dressing as well as a mint tea and strawberry-rhubarb lemonade!
🟠 Families encouraged! Kids play area and activities to engage them! A tour of the Teaching Garden and Permaculture Garden area available.
🟠 Afterwards, choose to stay and listen in to our AGM (starting at 6:30) for what we've accomplished this last year and the plans for the future. We would love our community's opinions and ideas!
🟠 We have so much to be thankful for here in the Shuswap including our ability to grow so much of our own SHU Food!
🟠 Join with us and become part of the solutions. Please share with those you know and let's break bread at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden!
#communitypotluck #growyourownfood #shuswapgrown #GrowFoodNotLawns #shuswap #salmonarm ... See MoreSee Less
WOWZAS! The @tsasalmonarm Lighthouse Community Food Forest continues to blow us away! So impressed with the growth and I really lucked out to have a break of sunshine to plant more seeds and have this community permaculture garden produce more food for whomever may need it!
Yes the video is long but it gives a whole tour of the growth, tips for gardening and the asks for this project.
Thinking of Wednesday Evening Walk-abouts at the Food Forest to be able to provide volunteer orientations and garden 101. Stay tuned for confirmation.
This garden is awesome. You've got to check it out. Contact us for more info on the space and how to be involved!
Joel Torrens with @tsasalmonarm
@permiekeli Keli Westgate with @lekkerlanddesign
And Melanie at projects@shuswapfood.ca or message here
#communityfood
#foodforests
#GrowFoodNotLawns
#learntogrowfood
#abundance
#everyonedeservesgoodfood ... See MoreSee Less
Come celebrate FOOD at our Community Potluck on Monday, June 20th at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden! We have so much to be thankful for here in the Shuswap including our ability to grow so much of our own SHU Food!
Community Potluck at 5:30 where we challenge you to try for as locally produced a dish or product. Families encouraged! We'll be making a big fresh salad from the garden and a fresh herb dressing as well as a mint tea and rhubarb lemonade! Think fresh, think seasonal. (No power to keep things hot ....)
Kids play area and activities to engage them! A tour of the Teaching Garden and Permaculture Garden area available.
Afterwards, choose to stay and listen in to our AGM (starting at 6:30) for what we've accomplished this last year and the plans for the future. We would love our community's opinions and ideas!
Join with us and become part of the solutions. Please share with those you know and let's break bread at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden!
#communitypotluck #growyourownfood #shuswapgrown #GrowFoodNotLawns #shuswap #salmonarm ... See MoreSee Less
Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market Day! Be sure to support our #shuswapfarmers as they support us!
And we also are up at the Shuswap Community Teaching Garden from 9-12 today to plant more seeds, plants, weed and mulch the crops! Lend a hand for as much time as you have and help us see grow beautiful produce for our community!
#eatlocalshuswap #shuswapgrown #supportlocal #everyonedeservesgoodfood ... See MoreSee Less
Sign up for our newsletter.
© Copyright 2022 by Shuswap Food Action Society