So, are you free this monday evening and want to hear about local food resources and initiatives going on in the city? If so, come to the Riverdale Rink House for their monthly speaker series. Potluck starts at 6, talk starts at 7pm!

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“Eating Local – A panel presentation of how to reduce your carbon footprint by eating local”.

There is lots of talk about eating local these days. The big question is HOW?? When so many of the food stores deliver from all parts of the world, and we have snow covering our growing for so long, how does one access local food year round in Edmonton?

This month we will hear from a number of people actively involved in the local food scene. Each one will do a short presentation on their area of expertise, and help us to understand how we can eat more local food throughout the year.

• Anita Gregoire has run an Urban CSA for 5 years, focusing on growing gardeners and reclaiming lost agricultural land. She will talk about what brought us to our current food system, and how Community Supported Agriculture can help.
• Tam Anderson has been in operating Prairie Gardens and Adventure Farm for nearly 30 years, offering u-pick strawberries, peas, potatoes. She grows 10 acres of pumpkins, a CSA garden, a corn maze and hosts on farm food festivals. Proud recipient of the Direct Farm Marketer of the year awards, she will discuss U-pick and market gardens
• Amy Beaith will talk about accessing local fruit through OFRE and the importance of preserving the fruits of your labour. She will briefly talk about her involvement with culinary education and “Shovel and Fork”.
• John Schneider is a fourth generation Canadian Farmer of 400 acres of certified organic grains, and heritage or heirloom varieties of vegetables, livestock and grains that represent a safeguard against possible collapse of conventional agriculture. His family runs Gold Forest Grains and markets their stone-milled grains directly to consumers via farmers markets and retail stores in Edmonton. John will talk about his journey, including farmer’s markets and eating seasonally.
• Chantelle Leidle is a consumer. Although she is not a specialist in any of the above areas, she has managed to eat local for the whole year. Through her small backyard garden and connections with other groups, her family has vastly increased their local food consumption. She will share thoughts from her journey towards personal sustainability for her family.

Where & When?

Riverdale Rink House, 100 Ave and 92 Street
Potluck at 6 (please bring dish and your own cutlery and dishes), speakers start at 7. You are welcome to attend all or part. Admission by donation.
Follow the event on Facebook under Edmonton Permaculture Group. Contact Anita Gregoire www.onborrowedground.com for more details.