Lets grow more food this year!

Saturday, March 6, 1-5pm, Mahon Hall

“Let’s grow more food this year!” An open space action think-tank

Submitted by Shoshana Ray

Would you like to invest in your community’s health while reducing
your food’s environmental impact? Want Salt Spring to be more
self-reliant and resilient? Have or need ideas, land, help, tools, or
others to grow with?

Sponsored by Island Natural Growers, Transition Salt Spring,  and The
Seed Sanctuary, this event is for collectively answering the question
“How can we grow more food this year?” Join others at Mahon Hall from
1 to 5pm on Saturday, March 6th to share our creative solutions,
resources, and opportunities so we can network, brainstorm, and plan
to make Salt Spring more food self-reliant. Creating a secure local
food system requires utilizing the ideas, experience, energy and
resources of our entire community!

In Open Space gatherings like this one, people share ideas in a
circle, then break into many small dialogues based on the topics put forth. The aim is to envision and create concrete and immediatefood-growing projects with the potential to increase the food supply and create new opportunities for people who would like to grow more food. Topics may include community gardens, cooperative gardens, community processing/distribution, community supported agriculture, land/tool/labour sharing, local investment, and anything else we can
dream up!

This event is free. Registration begins at 12:45. Tea and coffee provided, please bring a mug and a snack to share.

Children’s activities – parents are requested to give one hour. Volunteers are needed for: set up, facilitating children’s activities, and clean-up. If you have a laptop and are willing to use it to take notes, please bring it. Contact letsgrowsaltspring ( at) gmail.com; Shoshanah Ray 250-537-4748

To find or share growing space, visit http://www.saltspring.sharingbackyards.com