Now here’s a GIFC October newsletter about many happenings during this beautiful island transition into Autumn. After a Sep 20 Seed Cleaning Workshop, next was the lively Oct 3-4 CRISP Festival on Pender Island, including a Food Security Panel discussion (see speakers below). For this apple-oriented event, GIFC also helped community members press 600 litres […]
Read More Oct, 2026 NEWSLETTER – CRISP Festival & Many Fall Events!Welcome to GIFC’s September, 2026 Newsletter! It’s finally fall and time to harvest fruit like the beautiful Orca Pears below, gather vegetables for eating and sale, and dry a multitude of locally resilient seeds. Our latest newsletter includes Seed Saving workshops on Pender, Mayne and Galiano, and food fermentation and food security workshops at Pender’s […]
Read More Sep, 2026 NEWSLETTER – Fruit Harvesting, Seed Saving, Fermenting, Juicing…Now here’s the GIFC August, 2026 Food Co-op Newsletter… starting with a Saturna Summer Farm Tour to showcase the vital role that women play in our island agrifood system. Then besides Mayne Island’s upcoming August Fallow Deer workshop, you can also read about their first successful Community Supported Agriculture Program. Plus Pender and Mayne Seed […]
Read More Aug, 2026 NEWSLETTER – Women Farmers, Community Supported Agriculture