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Burnaby Rhododendron Festival
Sunday, May 7
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Deer Lake Park
9:30am - 4pm
Free Admission
More information at: www.brags.ca
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| East Vancouver Farmers Market Opening Day and Dig In! Garden Festival |
 Fresh potted herbs at Lowland Herb Farm. |
May 20, 2006 9am - 2pm Trout Lake Community Centre parking lot,
15th Avenue & Victoria Dr.
We're kicking off the market season this year with an emphasis on all that is leafy with Dig In! our official garden festival. Welcome back your favourite vendors after a long winter break and pick up some spring greenery for your table and your garden. Vendors will have seeds, hanging baskets, veggies starts, flowers and shrubs of all sorts.
After choosing additions to you garden patch - pick up something for dinner - salad greens, early spring veggies as well as fresh herbs, mushrooms, meat, seafood and cheese. There will be a wide variety of baked goodies and prepared foods as well. Beautiful crafts - local and handmade abound. |
Special Garden Festival features: Community tables with a garden focus, Master Gardeners, kids' gardening activities, composting and natural gardening information and more!
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| Cooking Demo and Dinner |
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Date: Thursday, May 18th
Presenters: Author/Owner Christian Gaudreault & Chef James Campbell
Book: As Fresh As It Gets - Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Cafe
Time: 6:30 pm
Guests: 14 – Cost per person: $95
Location: Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks, 1740 West 2nd Ave
Vancouver
The Tomato Fresh Food Cafe has shown Vancouverites how farmers' fields and local markets make for healthy and delicious food for the past 15 years. With their book newly released, Christian Gaudreault & Chef James Campbell will be hosting this special dinner to teach us their simple philosophy: letting farmers' fields and local markets determine your menus. This class is a must for anyone looking for a fun and uncomplicated approach to home cooking.
For more information: www.bookstocooks.com
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11th Annual Stone Soup Festival
Saturday, May 6, 11:30am - 5:30pm
Napier Greenway at Britannia Community Centre
Since 1996, East Vancouver has been celebrating community, food & spring with the Stone Soup Festival. This year's theme for the festival is "A Taste of the Drive". In keeping with the spirit of the story of Stone Soup, the community is invited to bring an ingredient for the Soup, which will be served throughout the festival.
Many of the markets' regular vendors will be there as part of a small farmers market - don't miss this family-friendly community event!
Linocut
Class
Learn to make linocut prints. Learn a simple two colour block printing
method. Everyone can carve, print and edition a plate!
Instructor: Andrea Taylor (Cotton Socks Press vendor at East
Van Farmers Market)
Dates: Tuesday Evenings April 18 to May 30, 2006 at
Dundarave Print Workshop at Granville Island 7pm-10pm
Level: All Levels Welcome- 8 students maximum
Course Fees: $230.00 + materials. For more info or
to register info@dundaraveprintworkshop.ca
or call 604-689-1650 or Andrea at 604-261-0402 cottonsockspress@telus.net
Pottery
for Kids
Have
some creative kids in the family? Kathleen Murphy of Kamu Klayworks
is offering pottery lessons for kids age 5 - 16. She'll even take on
groups of up to 4 - what a great birthday party idea! Send her an email or call 604-216-0345.
| Free Community Tables at the Market |
Did you know that non-profit and community groups can get a free table at the Farmers Markets? We offer these tables to community groups so that they may display information about their work, sell raffle and event tickets and get community support for their initiatives. If your group is interested, please read our guidelines and fill out an application.
We provide a table and chairs, cover and an interested public. Act fast for best date selection as spots go quickly!
Call the market office for more information. |
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| YLFMS Membership Committee Looking for Members |
This past year was our best year ever for community support through society membership - 132 people became YLFMS members! In 2006 we are setting a goal of 300 and think it is completely within reach. (consider that our Trout Lake market's daily attendance is near 5,000) To attain this goal, we're looking for new members to join our membership committee. This committee works off-site on membership benefits and promotions and on-site at markets telling people about the society behind the market.
If you would like to be a part of this dynamic and ambitious committee, please contact roberta@eatlocal.org or call 604-879-3276. Meetings are generally once a month and on-site hours are flexible. A great opportunity for students looking for volunteer hours and for anyone who believes in the benefits of farmers markets. |
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| Community
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A GREAT EVENT FOR ALL GARDENERS!
The Environmental Youth Alliance will be holding its 6th annual seed
exchange on Saturday, April 22, 10-2 at the Strathcona Community Garden (corner of Prior and Hawks). Bring your favourite vegetable, herb, or flower seeds to swap with fellow gardeners from across the city. No seed to swap? No problem...there will be lots of seed to go around.
Evergreen's 6th Annual Earth Day Celebration
Everett Crowley Park, Vancouver
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 11am to 3pm
Evergreen has held Earth Day celebrations at Everett Crowley Park since 2001. Earth Day Vancouver Celebrations, are an opportunity to encourage volunteer stewardship, provide environmental education and celebrate national Earth Day. Over the years, the event has grown into a large-scale community celebration, offering fun for the whole family, and engaging volunteers to help with the continual restoration of a nature park that was once Vancouver's central landfill.
Some of the planned activities include:
Tree Planting & Invasive Species Removal
Mandalas
Children's Activities
Musical Performances
Guided Nature Tours with Manfred Hagen (Manfred Hagen is a member of the Everett Crowley Park Committee and has been a Champlain Heights community resident for almost 30 years)
Native Plant Sales... and More.
White
Rock Off-Season Farmers Markets
Upcoming
Market dates: May 7, June 4 - 10am-1pm at the Elks Hall 1469
George St For
more info: www.whiterockfarmersmarket.ca
Necessary Voices Society Film Night
Beyond Organic, John De Graaf
May 9, 2006, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room, Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library (350 West Georgia). Admission is Free.
Fairview Gardens is an urban farm located in Goleta, California, right in the middle of some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S. Managed for the past two decades by visionary farmer/photographer/author, Michael Ableman, this 12-acre organic farm has become a model of sustainable food production and community involvement, as well as an inspiration for thousands of people all over the world.
While managing the farm, Ableman traveled around the world learning from the best examples of traditional agriculture. A talented professional photographer, his slides and observations -- carefully captured in BEYOND ORGANIC -- became the basis for two of his popular books From The Good Earth and On Good Land. At the same time he became an outspoken critic of large-scale commercial agriculture, with its reliance on vast inputs of fossil fuels, water, pesticides and other chemicals.
| Ten Good Reasons to Shop at the Farmers Market |
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(continued from the March issue of ebits. Excerpted
from www.cuesa.org)
Discover the Spice of Life ~ Variety: At the Farmers Market you find an amazing array of produce that you don't see in your supermarket. It is a wonderful opportunity to experience first hand the diversity (and biodiversity) of our planet, both cultivated and wild!
Promote Humane Treatment of Animals: At the farmers market, you can find meats, cheeses, and eggs from animals that have been raised without hormones or antibiotics, who have grazed on green grass and been fed natural diets, and who have been spared the cramped and unnatural living conditions of so many of their brethren on feedlots.
Know Where Your Food Comes From: A regular trip to a farmers market is one of the best ways to reconnect with where your food comes from. Farmers themselves sell their produce at the farm stands. Meeting and talking to farmers is a great opportunity to learn more about how food is grown, where it is grown, when it is grown, and why!
Learn Cooking Tips, Recipes, and Meal Ideas: Few grocery store cashiers or produce stockers will give you tips on how to cook the ingredients you buy, but farmers, ranchers, and vendors at the farmers market are often passionate cooks with plenty of free advice about how to cook the foods they are selling. They'll give you ideas for what to have for supper, hand out recipes, and troubleshoot your culinary conundrums. At the East Vancouver and West End farmers markets this season, look for our Ask a Chef booth for some advice from some of Vancouver's premier culinary experts!
Connect with Your Community: Wouldn't you rather stroll amidst outdoor stalls of fresh produce on a sunny day than roll your cart around a grocery store with artificial lights and piped in music? Coming to the Farmers Market makes shopping a pleasure rather than a chore. The Farmers Market is a community gathering place - a place to meet up with your friends, bring your children, or just get a taste of small-town life in the midst of our wonderful big city.
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Van Dusen Gardens
Annual Plant Sale
Farm Folk City Folk Needs Volunteers
A variety of positions available:
Coordinate Newsletter
Community Outreach Team Members
Archive Events Materials
Assist with Mail-outs
Write Position Papers, Newsletter Articles
More information at:www.ffcf.bc.ca
| Articles for E-bits |
| E-bits is YLFMS’ monthly on-line newsletter, reaching over 1,000 supporters of the Farmers’ markets in Vancouver. If you would like to submit an article relevant to our readers on topics such as local food systems, farming issues, food preparation, food issues, recipes, sustainable agriculture, land preservation, arts and crafts production and community economic development please contact Tara at tara@eatlocal.org. Only articles pertaining to the overall goals and mission of the organization will be considered for submission. The next issue of e-bits will be out May 15. Submission deadline: May 10, 2006. |
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