Gulf Islands Food Co-op

Sept, 2024 Co-op Newsletter & Summer Activities

For those who didn’t already receive it, here’s the latest Sept, 2024 Gulf Islands Food Co-op Newsletter!

This includes our shared Co-op Sales Tables on 3 islands this past summer/fall, supporting Indigenous Plant Restoration (Oct 18 on S,DAYES), our Grower-to-Food Bank and Winter Stock-Up Market projects (connecting local growers and hungry islanders, Market Oct 12 on Pender).  The Co-op also continues to provide support for 4 quickly growing Island Seed Library (local seed sharing) groups.

In addition, this year the Co-op has been very grateful to receive a United Way infrastructure grant, to buy a very expensive but hugely time-saving NEW seed cleaning machine plus specialized hand screens (to be shared among the 4 islands).  Finally, the Co-op has an upcoming Mobile Seed Cleaning Tour to make even more equipment available on Galiano (Oct 4-5) and then Mayne (Oct 6-7), plus we’re collaborating on an Oct 10 Meadow Makers Workshop on Pender.

This is just a quick summary, so for more details please see the Sept, 2024 NEWSLETTER.

Just email info@gulfislandsfoodco-op.org if you’d like to be added to the Co-op mailing list for future Newsletters.  If you’d like to help the Co-op support island food production and resilience, you can make a donation here.  In addition, if you’d like to be part of decisions to guide the Co-op in future, you can also support us by purchasing a $10 Member Share.

Here’s more info about the Co-op’s goals and services, and we hope your summer food growing and other activities are off to a great start!