Want to learn to grow, better, more sustainably? Check out these programs:
http://www.langara.bc.ca/continuing-studies/programs-and-courses/programs/social-ecology/courses.html

Starting in February: There are many Seedy Saturdays coming up throughout British Columbia. Visit your local event and get the best seeds in town! Just Google “Seedy Saturday” and the name of your city or town and you’ll find your nearest seedy event!

Feb 16 – 19: Oyama Sausage Choucroute Festival at Granville Island Public Market starts today! Presented by Oyama Sausage, Liberty Wines and Granville Island Brewing Beat the mid-winter culinary blahs and visit Granville Island between Feb 16th and Feb 19th for our Choucroute Festival. Details: http://goodlifevancouver.com/

Windsong Co-housing is hosting a screening of Queen of the Sun – What are the bees telling us? April 1st at 2pm. Tickets $10 http://queenofthesun-estwhdr.eventbrite.com/

Vancouver: Monday February 27, 2012 9:30am to 3:30pm Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Dr., Vancouver.
Meet Your Maker Vancouver is an annual one-day event where local, small-scale food producers and food buyers meet and do business! Organized by FarmFolk CityFolk and Local Food First. For information and tickets, click here.
Okanagan: This year, FarmFolk CityFolk is bringing Meet Your Maker to the Okanagan! Date & Location tba, but most likely sometime in early April. For more information, click here.

April 21, 22 & 23 in Victoria. Curtis Stone is farming 7 Kelowna City lots, uses a bike trailer to deliver his food, and is making a profit. He will be offering his only west coast workshop on the intensive SPIN process where he incorporates many permaculture principles into his business.
http://permaculturebc.com/SPIN-Farming-Intensive-2012

Throughout the year, when donating to the food bank, I often hear that people want to split their donation into 2 categories: items of need and items of want. So, at our 2009 Sustenance Festival, we asked the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition for suggestions when purchasing “needed items”: Food Bank Food Choices and we asked the public, “If you were in line at the Food Bank, what would you want?” and we received a list of answers (we’ve deleted items from the list that the Food Bank doesn’t accept such as homemade cookies, perishable items, etc.) Ifyouwereinline?”

Find your local, sustainable turkey here and take our pledge!

“Vancouver’s food history is ripe with flavour. Come take a bite.” FarmFolk CityFolk’s historical art exhibit, “Celebrating 125 Years of Food & Agriculture in the City of Vancouver” is available for showing.

New City Market’s business plan is now online for review & comments. In fact, they are holding a series of public events to gather more input. The New City Market (NCM) concept in Vancouver, BC has been developed over an 18-month period by the Local Food First steering group. Its primary purpose is to fill a major gap in the local food system that is not being satisfied by the food industry. This industry is driven predominantly by large box wholesalers, distributors and retailers. Through workshops, interviews and research with various stakeholders in the local food movement such as farmers, restaurateurs, retailers, eateries, distributors, food advocates and local government, the Local Food First group determined that there was a need for the following services and facilities at NCM: “Year-round weekly indoor farmers’ and chefs’ markets; as well as a commercial kitchen, storage and local farm-product distribution support.”
http://www.newcitymarket.org