Winter Market Open and Busy!
Thank you to everyone who came out for our first 2 Winter Farmers Markets of the season. We were delighted and surprised by the response. We hope you enjoyed what was on offer and are planning to make a trip to the Winter Market a regular weekend event for your household.
A big thank you to our friends at the Park Board and the City’s Special Events office for helping us get the market situated in our new home.
In December, pick up a recipe from our seasonal recipe series, donate to our Winter-Wear drive and swap some Holiday goodies during our Baking Swap. It’s going to be a fun month!
PARKING NOTE: Please be aware that the market is considered a “stadium event” in which case, there are areas where street parking is restricted to residents only. Please be careful while parking and read the signs. More information is available on our website at http://www.eatlocal.org/wfm_2010_11.html
Holiday Market – December 11, Croatian Cultural Centre
Make sure you mark December 11 on your calendar. It’s our 15th annual Holiday Market at the Croatian Cultural Centre – one day only! Over 90 vendors will be selling locally made, high quality artisan crafts and prepared food. It’s the perfect place to find unique gifts in all prices ranges for foodies, teachers, colleagues, or to have on hand as hostess gifts. Local gifts go a long way with impressions. Enjoy local music, hot food and drink while you shop!
Details:
Location: Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Drive
Date: December 11 – one day only – 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: $2 – Members are free! Find out how to become a member in our Member Zone section below.
Free parking
For more information, a list of vendors and a map of the hall go to our website at http://www.eatlocal.org/holidaymarket.html
Vendor News
Congratulations to Chris Bodnar and his wife Paige from Glen Valley Organic Farm (part of Langley Organic Growers) on the birth of their third child, Julia Oksana. Our best wishes go out to the big sisters and proud parents
Events in the Community
Bella Coola Flood – Farm Fundraiser Film Event
Tues, Dec 7, 6pm
Britannia Community Centre – Canucks Family Education Centre (Upstairs Eastside Family Place)
Cost $10, Silent Auction, food
Bella Coola farmers were recently hit by sever floods. Due to the realities of the agriculture industry the Bella Coola farmers work off the farm to make ends meet and are thus ineligible for Provincial Emergency Assistance.
These farmers are key players in regenerating their local food system and in increasing the community’s access to high quality local produce.
The community lost over 270 tons of winter feed, livestock, fencing, equipment, tools, heritage seeds, heritage fruit trees, corrals and paddocks, barns, market gardens, pasture, and acreage washed down the river.
We depend on our farmers for our food and they are appealing for our help.
Grandview Woodland Food Connection, FarmFolkCityFolk, Discovery Organics present
Mammalian, Canada, 2010
6:30 – 7:30pm
Frank Wolf and Taku Hokoyama strike out on a 2,000 km Arctic canoe journey through the largest wilderness area in North America. With a sense of humour and purpose, they track down politicians, First Nation chiefs, elders and others living in the few communities that frame the wilderness in order to present a clear picture of the area and the issues that face the land and its people.
Official Entry – Vancouver Film Festival, 2010
Wasteland, USA / Brazil, 2010
8 – 9:30pm
WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”-self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. His collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Wasteland offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
Audience Award for Best World Cinema Documentary – Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award for Best Film – Berlin Film Festival
Best Documentary – Seattle Film Festival
Amnesty International Human Rights Film Award
People’s Choice Award – Vancouver Film Festival, 2010
“…THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE OF DOCUMENTARIES, AN INSPIRING, DEEPLY MOVING CROWD-PLEASER!”
– Huffington Post –
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Fab Fair
An Evening with Meeru Dhalwala
Friday, November 19th
Location: Canucks Family Education Centre at the Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street
7:00-9:00pm
Tickets: $60 includes dish tastings, wine, and a copy of Vij’s at Home.
To purchase tickets call 604-718-5800
In benefit of Growing Chefs! Meeru Dhalwala, co-owner of Vij’s and Rangoli restaurants and co-author of Vij’s at Home, will share some of her cooking techniques, recipes, and ideas on how to feed your family healthy and delicious Indian meals on a limited budget. Meeru will answer your questions, showcase her family’s butter chicken schnitzel recipe and organic chickpea and star anise date masala, and talk about her 15 years of experience with food and cooking.
Inspiration for Butter Chicken Schnitzel comes from a common family challenge, the desire for healthy meals versus the desire to eat pizza and chicken nuggets. This issue is not just about the children who need to eat healthy; it’s also about the adults who find cooking difficult or overwhelming.
Your ticket to this event includes tasting samples and wine as well as a copy of Vij’s at Home: Relax, Honey; The Warmth and Ease of Indian Cooking. Proceeds to be donated to Growing Chefs!
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Circle Craft Christmas Market
November 17–21, 2010
New Vancouver Convention Centre West, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver
http://www.circlecraft.net/
It’s one of the largest and best known holiday markets in Vancouver and certainly one you don’t want to miss. The Circle Craft Christmas Market features a huge range of high quality artisan gifts.
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Growing Food in the City: Speaker Series
SFU Local Food Project presents
Growing Food in the City: Meet Your Maker
a speaker series and dialogue with local leaders in urban agriculture
Tuesday November 23
SFU Burnaby Campus | Blusson Hall Room 10011
(Across from the upper bus loop)
6:00 – 9:00pm
RSVP at: http://growingfoodinthecity.eventbrite.com/
Doors open at 6:00pm
Join us on Nov 23rd and meet your maker! This speaker series and dialogue will showcase various community based projects and local leaders in the region that are working to build food security in the urban context. Come and meet local change makers, urban farmers and food activists, learn about some exciting initiatives happening in the region, and how you can get involved.
Featuring a fantastic panel of local speakers:
Doris Chow, SOLEFood Urban Farm
Arzeena Hamir, Richmond Food Security Society
Cyss Wyss, Urban Aboriginal Kitchen Garden Project
Tegan Adams, UBC Orchard Garden Project
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The Baker’s Market has moved due to overwhelming popularity!
Effective immediately, Saturday, Nov.20, Nov. 27, Dec. 4, Dec. 11. 11 am – 3pm.
The Baker’s Market will be held indoors at the brand new waterfront Creekside Community Recreation Centre in the Olympic Village.
Come with your date or your family for a stroll in the Olympic Village, along the sea wall and munch on delicious baked goodies (make sure to bring your Olympic sized tummies) while enjoying the picturesque skyline of Vancouver. Support your local community bakers by indulging in their craft. Pre-order your Xmas and holiday baked goodies too.
There’s plenty of parking and it’s only a few blocks from the Main & Terminal skytrain station.
1 Athletes Way
Vancouver, BC
V5Y 0B1
http://www.bakersmarket.com/
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Museum of Vancouver – Home Grown: Local Sustainable Food
On until January 2, 2011
Home Grown is a photographic exploration of local food production and sustainable farming in Vancouver and the surrounding region, presented by MOV and FarmFolkCityFolk.
In photo-journalistic style, 39 stunning images by photographer, Brian Harris, contain a call-to-action for individuals and communities to reclaim control of local food systems and to think carefully about the ethics of food consumption decisions that are made everyday.
http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/
Food and Beers Speaker Series
Presented by Tides Canada
Hosted by David Beers, editor of TheTyee.ca
How Do We Compare to Other Cities?
Renowned authors of The 100 Mile Diet, James McKinnon and Alisa Smith, return from their travels to share ten local food ideas being trialed in other North American cities.
November 25, 2010, 7 pm at the Museum of Vancouver, tickets $15 and include Home Grown exhibition
Growing the Local Bounty – Food and Farms in BC and Ontario
If you haven’t already seen the series on local food systems running now in The Tyee, do check it out. This week, its all about how folks are learning about agriculture at UBC and in Richmond. A great read by Jeff Nield. ARTICLE
