Food Oriented Classes in Vancouver - Global Resource Systems

“NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD GROWING, SHARING, AND PREPAREDNESS 2010” Join one or all six of these workshops by Robin Wheeler about food security, apartment gardening, and community. They are specially oriented toward urban dwellers living in apartments in Vancouver. Green Millennium Foundation (GMF), Village Vancouver (VV), and West End Residents Association (WERA) are proud to present Robin Wheeler (www.ediblelandscapes.ca), author of Food Security for the Faint of Heart, and Gardening for the Faint of Heart, and founder of a local organic growers’ group (www.onestraw.ca) and the Sustainable Living Arts School (www.slas.ca) in a series of workshops on the food-secure household, gardening, food growing, and community organization, targeted especially for residents of the West End. The workshops will be held on one Sunday and two Saturdays at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver. For exact descriptions of each workshop, please visit the GMF. April 11 (Sun) 10:00-11:30 am THE FOOD SECURE HOUSEHOLD April 11 (Sun) 11:45-1:30 am APARTMENT GARDENING May 1 (Sat) 9:15-10:30 am — FOOD DIRECTED EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS May 1 (Sat) 10:45 am- 12:15 pm — SEED SAVING IN THE CITY June 5 (Sat) 9:15-10:45 am — FOOD PRESERVATION June 5 (Sat) 11:00 am-12:30 pm — INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY – SHAPES IN SHARING. Price: $15 per workshop. Anyone who registers for all six workshops will receive a bonus gift of their choice of either of Robin’s books. Registration. Register online (www.westendcc.ca), in person, or by calling (604-257-8333). You can download the Spring 2010 Guide. See page 22! Special thanks! To the West End Community Centre Association for their support (venue and promo)! Sponsors: www.greenmillennium.org, www.villagevancouver.ca, www.wera.bc.ca MORE INFORMATION: See “workshops” on www.greenmillennium.org