Come join your friends, farmers, and anyone who loves to eat for a dynamic conversation with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust and others working on food security. We’ll be at ASK Salt Spring from 11-1 on Friday to talk about what we need to do to make sure we have enough healthy and delicious local food to eat no matter what happens in the crazy world beyond our shores. Bring your questions and ideas!

Here are a few of the topics that are on the menu:

The Food Summit – hear about the exciting new connections, conversations and island-changing projects that have come out of the Summit!

50 Farms – we’ll be announcing a sizeable grant to jumpstart our 50 Farms project with a focus on emergency preparedness, in coordination with the CRD and based on its POD system. Includes ideas about finding, funding and mentoring new farmers, and developing local, walkable food sources for everyone on Salt Spring.

Easy ways to eat local – localsalt, Free Rangers, restaurants and grocery stores are all helping to support and boost our local food supply

Organizations working together on food security – how our valuable NGO’s can bust out of their silos and start working systemically to connect food, housing, water, governance, health, energy and other interrelated issues.

Native plants – ideas for helping with indigenous initiatives to restore the land!

Rooster wars and related subjects – how to make sure our governance help us produce more food, not less.

Learning how to grow your own food…with friends! – discussion of educational opportunities at the Root and what we can do to support food security at the neighbourhood level, while building community.

Sociocracy – a new way of working (and thinking) systemically!

Join us!

The Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust
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