Consumable Earth – Kamloops

If you have ever wanted to talk about and share your heart’s passion, the work you do in community, and or the  community projects that your are involved in Kim Jensen hosts a Spoken Word/Talk show on CFBX 92.5 FM Campus Community radio called “Community Connections”.   It’s on every Wednesday afternoon from 3 – 4 pm.  She talks about everything and anything to do with community.

She has put out the all to anyone working in the community to join her for some informal conversation. She does live and telephone interviews. She is in the midst of  planning for the new year so if you are interested in being a guest on my show please let her know which Wednesday in 2010 would work best for you if you’re able to come into the studio from about 2:45 – 4:15 pm.

Contact her at  inchange(at)telus.net
ph. 250-374-6614

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.

Sunday, January 31st at 2 p.m. at TRU Clock Tower Theatre there will be a public forum featuring talks by Professor Douw Steyn of UBC on “Air Quality in Kamloops” and Professor Penny Powers of TRU on “The Threat to Our Health”.

This public forum is just one response to the attempt to turn Kamloops into the pollution capital of BC from the Tournament Capital of Canada by allowing a toxic waste incinerator to operate in our city.

This public forum is co-sponsored by the TRUFA human rights committee, SaveKamloops and the TRU School of Nursing.

All are welcome.

For more information please contact Derek Cook, Chair of the TRUFA Human Rights Committee at 250 828 5244 .

UBC Faculty > D.Steyn http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/D.Steyn.html

For information please see the original post at savekamloops.ca

Wednesday January 13, 2010

Food Action Centre
171 Wilson St.

POTLUCK
From 5:30-7:00 pm

Minutes from November’s meeting:

In attendance: Paula Rubinson, Mendel Rubinson, Jackie Jones, Alexis Blueschke, Vera Doell, Heather Brandon, Trevor Gagnon, Diane Parker, Jen Zacher, Lenard Signats, Deanna and Sam, Leslie Dale, Marla Ronquist, Christina Guidici, Elaine Sedgemen

1)      Round Table and Introductions

2)      Community Liaison Updates

• Community Gardens
• Started a new advisory group
• looking at developing policies to help running of the gardens
• New River Street garden – fencing and irrigation before winter
• Wilson House potential new site for garden
• Looking at a Teaching garden at TRU
• Currently ~ 200 plots in Kamloops
  • Community Kitchens
  • RBC $10,000 donation – 20 kitchens for Metis
  • 0-6 kitchen – have child minding $3/meal

• Foodbank/ Food Action Centre and Kamloops Foodshare
• 50,000 hampers/year (37% were produce from FoodShare)
• Basics for Babies – breakfast to raise $ for baby supplies throughout the year
• Connect with La Leche league re: Breast pumps for moms and the development of info packages for pregnant mom’s.
  • Farmer’s Market
  • All wrapped up
  • Musicians play and donations buy food from a farmer and the food gets donated to the Food Bank
    • STOPA
    • Would like to encourage everyone to buy and eat local organic
      • Heartland Foods Co-op
      • First Nations Agriculture (FNA) buying Heartlands – no longer a Co-op of farmers but still will have local grower’s produce. Looking at sourcing further than 100 miles – still open for business.
        • First Nations Agriculture
        • Education Society offering grants for CG
        • Food Fair in March
        • working on Food Processing/Training centre
          • Breastfeeding Matters in Kamloops
          • BF Celebration went very well (54 moms and babes) broke record in Kamloops
          • Over $1200 in prizes
          • Working on mapping project of BF friendly businesses
          • Trying to get La Leche League going again
            • Master Gardeners
            • Lots of workshops have been given by MG as part of their volunteer time
            • involved in schools and community gardens
            • Training for MG coming in the fall

3)      Roundtable

• Nov 6^th & 7^th Fields of Walking – Friday evening TRU gallery/ Saturday guided walking                                                 tours starting at 9:30am at the Old Courthouse
• Nov 7^th Sat              Clear the Air Dance at the Ukrainian Hall 7:30pm $15 tickets. For more                                      information www.savekamloops.ca
• Nov 14^th Sat            Let’s Talk Local Food & Local Solutions 9am-5pm Neskonlith Hall (5km                                      west of Chase)  Suggested donation $2  Contact Judy 250-679-3082 or                                                    Elona 250-679-8421
• BC Agriculture Plan through the Ministry of Agriculture  Regional 1-888-221-7141                                                                    http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/Agriculture_Plan/
• Arnica Artist Run Centre Exhibition & Town Hall mtg “Produce: Produce” – urban sustainability. Looking for committee members for brainstorming ideas – please contact Elaine Sedgman at esedgman@telus.net

November 29th (last Sunday of every month)
Doors open at 5:30 dinner at 6pm
At Church of Nazarene, 7th and Columbia, left side door, downstairs

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

After dinner: Ellen Duncan will share her experience working as a Dietitian with Qwemtsin Health and Interior Health and how her working life and home life converge a passion for food sovereignty.

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.(September to May)