Category: Food Security

Give the Gift of Good Food

November 30, 2014

Our neighbours at the Fernwood NRG’s Good Food Box are running a holiday fundraiser and we wanted to help spread the word!  Here’s the scoop:

Fernwood fundraiser will feed families all year

Donate and make a difference for a family struggling to meet their nutritional needs

This holiday season, Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group (Fernwood NRG) is raising money through their Give the Gift of Good Food fundraiser to support families who attend programs at the Fernwood Community Centre.

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Just Eat It Premiere!

November 13, 2014

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Grow A Row 2014 is underway!

May 16, 2014

We are excited to announce that the Grow A Row program has started up once again!

Grow a Row is a community of gardeners, businesses, groups and individuals gathering together to help those in need.

The concept is simple:

Grow an extra row of food in your garden and bring it to one of the drop off locations around town where it will be distributed to food lunch programs, community kitchens, food banks and Our Place Society.

Support food justice and security in your own backyard!

Starting Saturday May 17th, the Compost Education Centre will be accepting donations of excess garden produce from 10:00am-4:00pm.  All produce collected at our Centre at 1216 North Park St will be promptly delivered to Our Place and added to the nourishing meals they provide to people in need in our community.  Our Place serves over 1,200 meals a day, 5 days a week and your extra tomatoes, zucchini, kale or other veggies will help make them even more nutritious and tasty.

If you’d like to donate produce from your garden but live in a different part of town, please check out our list of drop-off locations to find the closest one to you:

Burnside Gorge
Burnside Gorge Community Association, 471 Cecelia Road

Mondays & Wednesdays: 7:30-9am & 5-8:30pm

Produce donated to Burnside Gorge Community Association.
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Sooke
Sunriver Community Gardens
(at the notice chalkboard)

Wednesday: before 4:00pm

Produce donated to Sooke Food Bank.
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Victoria West
Vic West Community Centre, 521 Craigflower Road

Monday: 9:00am-4:00pm

Produce donated to S.A.F.F.E. Monday Night group dinners/ Burnside Gorge Community Association .
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