Consumable Earth – Kamloops

Location: Heritage House, 100 Lorne Street
Time: 10-3:00 Saturday, March 6, 2010

If you’d like a booth:
Contact person: Fawn Knox
Email: fknox@telus.net
Phone: 250.579.5768
Contact person: Leslie Welch
Email: fknox@telus.net
Phone: 250.828.2321
Sponsor: Friends of the New Victory Gardens

Seminars:

Soil Fertility — Leslie Welch 1:00

Worm Composting — Penny Powers 1:00

Prevent Pests Naturally — Leslie Welch 1:45

Planting the Veggie Garden — Jo-Lynn Forbes 1:45

Must-grow Vegetables — Ann Sutherland 2:30

Herbs — Janet Kernachan 2:30

Garden Seminars presented by the Master Gardeners & Local Experts

Refreshments will be available, kid activities are planned and door prizes will be drawn. Fun for all.

Earthcare Kamloops is a non-profit group of caring citizens who promote a plant-based diet, and support sustainable, local farming practices.  We strive to create a healthier, more connected community by discussing environmental and health issues at our monthly Vegetarian potlucks. (last Sunday of month,Sept-May)

Monday Feb 22, 2010

5:30 pm
Henry Grube Education Centre
245 Kitchener Cres
Room 1A

5:30 pm
Kamloops Food Policy Annual General Meeting and Potluck

7:00 -7:30 pm
Presentation by Rose Soneff, Program Manager for Community Capacity
Building an initiative of the BC Healthy Living Alliance led by the Canadian Cancer Society.

AGM Meeting:

1. Membership verification (membership dues up-to-date)
2. Executive Members Report
   Executive Co-chairs, Paula Rubinson/Laura Kalina
   Treasurer, Laura Kalina
3. Working Group Reports
   • Food Policy/ City of Kamloops Social Plan (Laura and Jenn)
   • Community Gardens (Vera)
   • Heartland Foods/FNALA  ( Lesley)
   • Community Mapping (Dave)
   • Urban Agriculture
   • Urban Hens (Bonnie)
   • Seed Saving (Fawn Knox)
   • Election of Executive – New Slate 2010
4. Slate:
   • Chair
   • Past Chair
   • Treasurer
   • Secretary
   • Directors (3-4)
5. Adjournment

WHAT: Organizational meeting for a Kamloops sustainability network (we need a name for it too!)


WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010 at TRUSU Boardroom, TRU from 7 pm to 9 pm


WHO: Clubs, NGO’s, faith groups, government ministries: anyone concerned about the health of the earth in general and the Kamloops area in particular – at least one representative per group. Unaffiliated Individuals are welcome as well.

WHY: Kamloops has many environmental, sustainability and other “greenish” clubs and organizations that often have overlapping interests.  Better communication would facilitate collaboration and a stronger, more unified voice on community issues.


PURPOSE: What do you want this network to look like?  How would it ideally function?  Help us brainstorm a vision for connectivity and then formulate a plan to implement it.

Please RVSP attendance to the-cap@shaw.ca

Saturday, February 6th, 2010
10am to 4pm

Clearwater Secondary School

For more information or to reserve a booth:
Cindy: (250)-674-2939 / Cheryl: 674-3260

Or email: cfesevents(at)yahoo.ca

Sunday January 31st, 2010
Doors open at 5:30 dinner at 6pm
520D Seymour St, Interior Community Services

Please bring:

• A Vegetarian or Vegan dish** for about 8 people
  eggs and dairy are ok
• Recipe or list of ingredients is mandatory
• Your own plate, cutlery, and cup
• A suggested $3 donation
• Your own creative Nametag

**Prizes for Best Dish, Best Dessert**

After dinner:  Why our Agricultural System is Unsustainable by Leslie Welsh, Master Gardener.

Earthcare Kamloops is a non-profit group of caring citizens who promote a plant-based diet, and support sustainable, local farming practices.  We strive to create a healthier, more connected community by discussing environmental and health issues at our monthly Vegetarian potlucks.
(last Sunday, September to May)

When: Sunday January 17, 2010 at at 2:00pm-4:00pm (meeting) 4:00pm-6:00pm (potluck) 
(Third Sunday of Month)
Where: 2853 Bowers Pl, Kamloops, BC (map)
Contact: Caroline Cooper at 250.374.4646

We will be hosting a Weston A. Price Foundation Potluck. Please bring one nourishing traditional dish to share with others. If you are unsure of what a nourishing traditional dish is, please read Dietary Guidelines and Dietary Dangers. Please bring a list of ingredients for the dish or a copy of the recipe. This is for those people with food allergies or sensitivities to even properly prepared nourishing traditional foods.

We will be discussing the formation of a herd share program for Kamloops. We will review Naomi Fournier’s lecture on January 9, 2010 for those families that could not attend. If you are interested in raw milk, please come to this meeting.

Hosted by Caroline Cooper leader of the Kamloops Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation for more information please visit her site at Eat Kamloops

Tria Donaldson, Canadian Youth Delegate to the Copenhagen Conference
will be making presentations at:
TRU in the Clock Tower Theatre
7 pm on Thursday January 14th.

The Environment and Sustainability Speaker Series will sponsor a Copenhagen Post Mortem, to look at what happened and where we go following the Copenhagen Climate meeting in December.

Critical Mass is a gathering of cyclists in support of cyclist equality in the urban center. We ride through the downtown core (beginning at Riverside Park) in a pack, taking up a lane to ourselves. Everyone is welcome on the ride, and we only go as fast as our slowest person, so don’t worry about being left behind! Our rides our designed to be fun and easy and usually don’t take more than 30 minutes, so don’t be put off thinking we’re riding up to Sahali.

Make a stand for alternative transportation. When cyclists are seen riding by themselves in the middle of winter they are thought of as “crazy persons” but when a large group ride together it makes people think.

Help us make the city think. Happy riding folks.