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Celebrating Winter: Potluck this Friday

Posted by Sara Dent on November 20, 2012

Join us this Friday, November 23rd: farmers, gardeners, friends and foodies for our next Vancouver farm tour + potluck! In collaboration with Vancouver Urban Farming Society  and Slow Food Vancouver we will be gathering to share food and joy- and feed each other! This time in Vancouver’s Downtown. 6pm: We will tour Local Garden’s new 6000 square foot greenhouse. If you want to attend please be on time and RSVP to: info@urbanfarmer.ca 7pm: Potluck at Rainier Provisions, 2 West Cordova Rainier Provisions is a new beautiful cafe and produce sales spot in Gastown. Thank you to Heather Hospitality Group for the space! … Continue reading Celebrating Winter: Potluck this Friday →

Slow Food Youth Network Terra Madre 2012!

Posted by Sara Dent on November 01, 2012 1 Comment

We’re just back from Slow Food Internationals 2012 Terra Madre event in Turin, Italy. It was an honour to be there as a representative of Young Agrarians- thanks to the fundraising efforts of Slow Food Vancouver and FarmFolk CityFolk. The global youth food movement is doing good things everywhere. It’s amazing to feel part of something bigger focused on ‘good, clean, fair’ foods. We connected with and tasted foods from peoples all over the world. It is impressive the scale at which Slow Food International is networked. I have some prep to do for Food Secure Canada’s conference this weekend. … Continue reading Slow Food Youth Network Terra Madre 2012! →