It already happens on Galiano, and now the Co-op is trying it on Pender…. offering a bit of funding to producers willing to grow winter vegetables to sell in fall, 2024 for a Pender Winter Stock-Up Market and/or to the local Food Bank! You can see more details HERE…
Read More Feb, 2024 Pender Producer Opportunity, Winter Stock Up MarketNow with great thanks for confirmed CRD funding in 2024, all kinds of continuing projects (Co-op Sales Tables, Seed Libraries support) and new ones (e.g. Indigenous traditional plants as below, Grower2FoodBank) will be happening! See HERE for more details, also to be discussed at the Gulf Islands Food Co-op AGM on Sunday, April 7, 2024 […]
Read More Feb, 2024: new Co-op funding, projects, and April 7 AGMThe saving of locally-adapted seeds is one of the keys to local food resilience! The Gulf Islands Food Co-op is happy to announce three more hands-on seed cleaning and learning days, coming up October 14 on Galiano Island and October 15 and 16 on Pender Island (see details HERE)…
Read More Oct 14, 15 & 16, 2023 Saving Seeds (Seed Cleaning & Learning Days)