Salt Spring Seedy Sunday

Sunday. Feb. 15th - 9:30am-4:30pm 'Growing Together' Workshops at the Farmers Institute upstairs ($25 pre-registration includes lunch) 9:30-12:30 Farm Sharing and Community Living Panel Discussion Are you someone with land looking for other like-minded folks to share it with? Are you someone who has a desire to be on land, create a home and community? Do you have skills or experience to help these people work together? Please join our 3 hour session to share ideas and experience about living/ working on land in community, whether multi-generational, multi-family, co-housing, separate structures, farm share leasing, co-ownership, co-operative business, etc. We will start with a few brief presentations by local ‘experts’, followed by practical solutions to help the people in the room increase their capacity to work together. 12:30-1:30 Organic Lunch from Hips 'n Haws 1:30-4:30 Local Food Resilience: Building on Success and Activating Opportunities In 2005, Island Natural Growers conducted a local produce study, which revealed we are growing about 5% of our food on island. Since then, many programs have made efforts to raise the percentage. This session will look at how are we doing now and how we can further increase our local food security. Topics will include local initiatives such as The Abbatoir, The Produce Centre, and Community Gardens, along with successful models from off island such as Fruit Tree Projects, Community Kitchens and Value-Added Cooperative Businesses.