Co-op’s 2021 Highlights & Fall Newsletter
Here are just a few highlights from the CO-OP’s 2021 PROJECTS, and for more details and photos you can also see our Fall, 2021 Newsletter:
- Feb, 2021 initial Seed Saving Education zoom presentation ;
- ongoing Co-op support for Pender, Mayne and Galiano Seed Library initiatives, plus our Oct 5, 2021 Hands-On Seed Saving Workshop)
- Feb to Dec, 2021: Roz Kempe and Ben Dunsmuir of the Co-op along with many cooperating stakeholders continued work on a lengthy SGI Food System Assets and Priority Actions REPORT (funded by the CRD’s Southern Gulf Islands Community Economic Sustainability Commission);
- May to Sept, 2021: Our highly successful Co-op Tables for Joint Selling at island Saturday Markets (Pender, Galiano and Mayne) ran again in 2021;
- Fall, 2021: Co-op supported Saturna Island Food Bag Program, where local food is purchased and shared with those in need;
- November, 2021: Co-op met with a representative of the PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW (Blossoming Place) initiative, which is a native plant nursery, school garden, restoration and educational program near Brentwood Bay, supported by the Tsawout First Nation and others. This meeting was about how to keep encouraging a relationship to grow between the Co-op and the W̱SÁNEĆ community, given that most island food production is currently based on settler methods of “agriculture” and a colonial idea of “farmland.” We also offered an initial donation of our remaining grant funds for 2021, and talked about potential collaborations for which the Co-op might be able to seek funding.
For more on these activities, see the links above, plus our…
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