A Canadian Foodie

Food Secure Canada National Conference in Edmonton November 1 to 4, 2012
2012-11-01 08:00 - 2012-11-04 17:00 (America/Edmonton) | NAIT, 11762 - 106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 2R1 , Canada
Powering Up for the Future!
Join Canada’s national food movement for an invigorating three-day feast of food and ideas at
Food Secure Canada’s 7th National Assembly
November. 1 – 4, 2012, NAIT, Edmonton Alberta
Registration
Program
Step up to the plate! Get inspired and help bring much-needed change to the food system. Sit down with foodies and farmers, activists and academics, politicians and policy makers, Indigenous and youth leaders, cooks and community food centre workers.
Join Food Secure Canada’s national network of inspiring people and organizations working for zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems. Tell your story, find out what others are doing, build a better world!

Come Register!
Registration is only open until Friday October 26.
It’s not too late – become a member of Food Secure Canada today!
Members – $275 Non-members – $325(registration includes breakfast, lunch and snacks for the duration of the Assembly)
Register NOW!

Promote the Assembly in your Community!

Download and distribute outreach flyers in black and white or colour
Making a presentation? Use this Powerpoint slide
Share the news in your newsletter

Stay tuned! Nominations for the Food Secure Canada steering committee members will be announced soon.
Food Secure Canada’s Annual General Meeting (Sunday, November 4th) will usher in new steering committee members, offer perspective on recent FSC transitions, and articulate our vision for the future.

Tables at the Assembly
If you would like a table in the halls of the Assembly, please email Joveena (joveenaholmes[a]yahoo[dot]ca) with “TABLE” in the subject line. Space is limited so reserve today.

The Book Hub
For the first time, we are offering the opportunity to promote and sell your books at our on-site bookstore. Book signings and presentations opportunities can also be arranged. For more information please email Brenda (brendabarritt[a]gmail[dot]com) with “BOOK HUB” in the subject line.

Become a Sun Supporter of the Assembly
We could not offer such an incredible line-up (not to mention the abundance of great food) without the help of our Sun Supporters. Sponsors will be acknowledged in our materials and can benefit from complimentary registration. Find out more about sponsoring our Assembly. (Link)

Small Subsidies
A very limited amount of money is available to help subsidize participation at the Assembly for those who have had their workshops accepted but are unable to attend. If applicable, please indicate your interest in receiving a subsidy when you register. We’ll do our best to help you.
DEADLINE PASSED

Volunteer at the Assembly
Behind every good conference is a team of dynamic volunteers. If you are in Edmonton or you are attending the assembly and would also like to volunteer and join our volunteer team. Email Joveena (joveenaholmes[a]yahoo[dot]ca) with “VOLUNTEER” in the subject line.
If you have other skills you think we might need (like graphic design, translation, etc.), please contact Amanda at programs[a]foodsecurecanad[dot]org.

What is Food Secure Canada (FSC)?
Food Secure Canada is a national membership-based organization committed to fighting hunger and to building healthy, fair and ecological food systems. Food Secure Canada emphasizes the connections between Indigenous traditions and sustainable agriculture, food and health, ecology and economy. This vision connects farmers and fishers, urban and rural dwellers, and producers and eaters. It is encapsulated in Resetting the Table: A People’s Food Policy for Canada – a policy platform that thousands of people developed over a three years, creating the most comprehensive food strategy ever developed in Canada.
What is Growing Food Security Alberta (GFSA)?
Growing Food Security in Alberta (GFSA) is a provincial network whose members support each other in providing guidance and connections around food. GFSA supports ideas and actions around food and food systems that are sustainable, equitable, close to home and regenerative. The GFSA network strives to help people get involved in food and to bring food and its sources closer to home. The GFSA Vision is that all children and families in Alberta have access to healthy and, when possible, local food.
What Will Happen at the Edmonton Assembly?
The programs at Food Secure Canada’s Assemblies are based in the work of our members from across the country. They highlight the successes and challenges of projects and programs for social and ecological justice and sustainability in a mixture of plenary panels, workshops, roundtable discussions and networking sessions. The presentations and discussions are rigorous but not academic; participants come away energized and inspired (and of course well fed, as we feature both the theory and practice of good local food!).
Who attends?

People who are part of the food movement from all over Canada, including inner-city, rural and remote communities: community food project leaders, food businesses and government officials, teachers, dietitians, farmers, fishers, Indigenous leaders, students, gardeners, cooks, academics, health professionals, food bank workers and users, anti-poverty activists and interested individuals.
Media, policy makers, leading thinkers on food issues in Canada and globally.

Cheesepalooza Challenge Three Round Up: Halloumi or Feta
2012-10-31 | Unnamed Venue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Round up of Cheesepalozza Challenge Three cheese making experience will be posted for all to review! Ths is my favourite time!
Please also get your alternate Chapter 2 cheese making posts into me by today, as I will be posting an Alternate Chapter Two Cheese Making Round Up sometime close to the first week of November!

Cheesepalooza Making Mozza with CBC Radio
2012-10-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Taste Tripping: Culinary Tour, Travel and Cooking Classes, 874 Proctor Wynd, Edmonton, Alberta, T5T 6P8, Canada
Ian, Addy and I will be making mozzarella live with Matthew Kupfor and who knows when the show will be broadcast? In any case, we will add the sound bite to our next cheesepalooza post for your listening pleasure!

Public Hearing for Edmonton's Food and Agriculture Strategy
2012-10-26 09:30 - 17:30 | Edmonton City Hall, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 2R7, Canada
Public Hearing for Edmonton’s Food and Agriculture Strategy
Share your views with Edmonton’s City Council about Edmonton’s Food and Agriculture Strategy
Citizens will be able to share their views with City Council about the draft strategy at a Special Executive Committee Non-statutory Public Hearing on Friday, October 26, 2012. Citizens who wish to speak at the Public Hearing can register in advance online and by phone (780-496-8178), or in person the day of the meeting.
For details on other public consultation opportunities that have occurred, see the Public Involvement page.
The only public hearing on the Food & Agriculture Strategyis taking place tomorrow at City Hall.

The Local Good is passing along this request for YOUR presence tomorrow at City Hall from the Local Food Committee of the Greater Edmonton Alliance:

“Hi folks,
In 2010, City Council put food on the planning radar of the city along with waste management, housing, roads, public transit, managing growth, water and sewer.

If you’re interested in . . .

what happens to the remaining agricultural land within Edmonton’s city limits

Raising Chickens

Growing your own garden

Sharing a community garden

Seeing what “direction” the City will set to ensure healthy food is available for all Edmontonians

. . . then this is an event you want to be at.
Over 3000 citizens participated in the City’s consultation process and preservation of agricultural land was the top ranked or most common theme named by citizens each time the City asked.
We believe the strategy does not take a strong enough stance on this issue. Now, we need to ensure that they listened to citizen’s input.

Join other Edmontonians as collectively we flex our food-citizen muscles at City Hall tomorrow, Friday, October 26th from 9:30 to 5:30.
Come for some or all of the day. (There will a lunch break from 12 to 1:30.) This will be the only opportunity for the Public Hearing for ….Fresh: Edmonton’s Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy.
Show your support by wearing something green! Look for folks outside city hall who will be distributing green ribbons for you to wear on your shirt collar showing your support for urban agriculture.

Questions? Email localfoodlist@greateredmontonalliance.com.

Local Food Team
Greater Edmonton Alliance“

Want to learn more?

Learn more about the strategy by reading the latest version of fresh: Edmonton’s Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy. You can also check out The Local Good blog to read some very informative commentary – especially this post which focuses on the City Hall event tomorrow.

Cheesepalooza Challenge Three POSTS in
2012-10-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Please include:

your name
post url
where you are from
photo of your cheese

by October 26th, if possible!

Terra Madre 2012
2012-10-24 08:00 - 2012-10-29 22:00 | Turrin Italy, Turino, Italy
I was to attend this conference as a Congress Delegate! Next time!
http://salonedelgustoterramadre.slowfood.com/

The Good Hundred Experiment
2012-10-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
An invite only event for YEG Do Gooders coming up on October 20th called ‘The Good Hundred Experiment’ and I thought you might want to know about it.
If you’re getting this email then we’ve either met in person or someone I respect has told me that you’re up to good things that make Edmonton a better place to be.
And we’re hosting a day long gathering (with a party in the evening) to help connect do gooders across sectors.
You can read more info about the event here: http://goodhundredproject.eventbrite.com
You can see the 30 or so folks who’ve already RSVP’d here: http://www.thelocalgood.ca/goodhundred/
Hosts:
Tad Hargrave – Co Founder of TheLocalGood.ca
web: www.marketingforhippies.com and www.thelocalgood.ca twitter: @TadHargrave
Tad is a co-founder of TheLocalGood.ca – an Edmonton network that helps Edmontonians live the local good life by supporting and connecting good local things together.
He’s also a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Despite years in the non-profit and activist world, he finally had to admit he was a marketing nerd and, in the end, he became a marketing coach for hippies. Maybe it was because he couldn’t stand seeing his hippy friends struggle to promote their amazing, green and holistic projects. Maybe it was because he couldn’t keep a 9-5 job to save his life. Whatever the reason, for almost a decade, he has been touring his marketing workshops around Canada, bringing refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls). And, over the years, he has become recognized as a leader in the wider movement towards green and local economies.
Nadine Riopel – TheSavvyDoGooder.com
web: http://www.thesavvydogooder.com/ twitter: @philanthusiast
A lifetime of searching for the best way to make the world a better place has led me to the conclusion that the best path for me to do that is to help others make their giving more engaging and effective. On the way here, I; studied international development and business administration as a university student; had misadventures as a serial volunteer; coordinated workplace giving and fielded soliciations as the executive assistant for a large company; and spent several years as a professional charitable fundraiser.

Mom's Surgery
2012-10-12 | Misericordia Hospital, 16940 - 87 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5R 4H5, Canada
I will be available through e-mail during this week.

Cheesepalooza Challenge Three: Feta or Halloumi
2012-10-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Find all Challenge Three information here: https://www.acanadianfoodie.com/2012/10/01/cheesepalooza-challenge-three-homemade-feta-or-halloumi/
