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1. Children's Health and Nutrition Initiative: 3. Community Garden Knowledge Swap 5. CSEHub Telelearning Session 3: Food Security and the Social Economy 6. Food For Talk Winter series 7. Canadian Organic Growers' conference "Growing Up Organic: Organics - Beyond the Hype 8. Big Big Benefit: Right to Choose!
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Children's Health and Nutrition Initiative: About the Children's Health & Nutrition Initiative The Initiative was launched on January 17, 2007 to build a broad-based coalition of diverse stakeholders that are passionate about Canada becoming a world leader in making safe and healthy food available to all children and reshaping social, cultural, economic and environmental influences to optimally support child health. Founding supporters include Olivia Chow, MP (Trinity-Spadina), Breakfast for Learning, FoodShare and the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Find out more in the FAQ or read the backgrounder. To register your support and find out how you can get involved, click here. ----------------- A dialogue session on the National Children's Health and Nutrition Initiative Where: PHSA Corporate Office, 700-1380 Burrard Street, Meeting Room A When: Monday, February 19 Dial-in Information: 604-899-2339 (local) 1-877-385-4099 (toll free). You are invited to attend a presentation and dialogue session on the recently announced National Child Health and Nutrition Initiative by Debbie Field, Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto. The Initiative was launched on January 17, 2007 to build a broad-based coalition of diverse stakeholders that are passionate about Canada becoming a world leader in making safe and healthy food available to all children and reshaping social, cultural, economic and environmental influences to optimally support child health. Founding supporters include Olivia Chow, MP (Trinity-Spadina), Breakfast for Learning, Foodshare and the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The website for this initiative is : http://www.childrensfood.ca/chni Good Food for Life is a program for young survivors of breast cancer diagnosed prior to menopause and finished treatment within the last three years. The program supports lifelong dietary changes because eating a healthy diet, high in fruits and vegetables, is universally accepted as being beneficial to overall health and wellness. Participants are encouraged and supported to make and sustain self-directed changes to their diet. When good food is associated with nurturance we are motivated to eat well. There are 3 program sessions offered throughout Metro Toronto 2007. Good Food For Life Sessions for 2007 Session 1: Feb. 26-Apr. 23, 10am-1pm, at Loblaws, Victoria Park Market, 50 Musgrave St. Session 2: Apr. 30-June 25, 10am-1pm, at Loblaws, Queen’s Quay, 10 Lower Jarvis St. Session 3: Fall 2007, dates and location to be confirmed For more information on the program, click here: www.foodshare.net/kitchenGF4L.htm Interested in signing up for the sessions or want more information? Contact: Toronto Community Garden Network's Community Garden Knowledge SwapSaturday, February 24, 20079:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Share tips with other gardeners about everything from growing to fundraising to coordinating your community gardenLearn about preparing local, seasonal food in a cooking demonstrationBe inspired by other exciting community gardening projects from across the city. Free Lunch available No registration required Directions: Car: The Stop is at Davenport & Symington, two lights west of Lansdowne Ave. Do you have photos, manuals or a display of your community garden that you’d like to share? Call Rhonda at 416-652-7867 ext. 222 to reserve display space A Grassroots Environmental Products workshop When: Monday, February 19 from 7:30 to 9pm Where: Grassroots at 372 Danforth Ave. (at Chester subway, near Carrot Common) Workshop cost: $10 Please register early as space is limited. Pre-register at either Grassroots location or call (416) 944-1993. Ravenna Barker, FoodShare’s Urban Agriculture Facilitator and Ryan Horning, a Focus on Food Intern share a passion for organic growing methods. From running a commercial sprouting operation to growing acres of market vegetables, their knowledge and experience ranges far and wide. In this timely workshop they will share and explore a variety of winter growing solutions. Topics to be covered will include: growing seedlings to get a head start in your garden; sprouting a variety of seeds and beans into delicious, edible sprouts; growing vegetables hydroponically; and making use of a cold frame outside to extend your growing season. All participants are invited to bring a mason jar and will go home with started sprouts and seedlings.
CSEHub Telelearning Session 3: Food Security and the Social Economy What is meant by the term “Food Security”? How does it relate to the Social Economy? If you want to know the answers to these questions and more, join Dr. Heather Myers, from the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, and Debbie Field, Executive Director of FoodShare in Toronto, in an engaging telelearning session. Call Logistics: Session Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007 Registration: By Email or by Phone Limited number of phone lines for session – so register soon! For more information, please visit the CSEHub Telelearning webpage. Aboriginal Peoples and FoodSecurity: Rural and Urban Difficulties, Friday, February 16, 2:30-4:30 This Food For Talk presentation, which is covered by three Aboriginal women, will introduce issues of food security in northern/rural First Nations communities and in urban areas such as Toronto. It will raise both the similarities and differences within each of these types of communities, examine the historical roots and present day impacts of food insecurity and explore the attempts at lessening this problem for Aboriginal peoples. The presentation will then turn to Aboriginal world views, research methodologies and cultural/ethical protocols which are currently serving as guidelines for many Aboriginal researchers/research projects. A specific research project that has begun with Aboriginal/Indigenous youth in a First Nations community in New Brunswick and a rural community in Brazil on food security and identities will be show cased. Dr. Cyndy Baskin, Mi?kmaq Nation, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University. Bonnie Johnston, an Ojibway mother and Jingle Dress Dancer from north western Ontario, is a recent Master of Social Work graduate from the University of Toronto. Ruth Koleszar-Green is a Mohawk woman of the turtle clan. She is currently in her fourth year of the Bachelor of Social Work program at Ryerson University. Volunteers from the Betinho project, from the Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University, will be selling jewelry made by indigenous women from the northeast of Brazil. The jewelry is made of seeds and will cost $5-$15. Upcoming Food For Talk Seminars: Student Colloquium Sustainable Agriculture in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Designing for Food and Agriculture: Recent Explorations at Ryerson University Canadian Organic Growers' conference "Growing Up Organic: Organics - Beyond the Hype" Saturday, February 17, 9 am - 5 pm What's all the hype about organic food? Why are so many people talking about it, buying it? How does it relate to children's health? Policy makers, nutritionists, agriculture and children's environmental health experts share their views on how organics are making a difference. Speakers: Wendy Mesley, former co-host of the award-wining CBC investigative consumer show: Marketplace, and current host of CBC Television's Underdogs, with a personal connection to this issue in her battle with cancer. Thomas Pawlick, MA, Author of The End of Food on how modern industrial farming techniques have affected the available nutrients in the food we eat. Kathleen Cooper, researcher with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and co-author of Environmental Standard Setting and Children's Health. Ellen Desjardins, MHSc, RD, public health nutritionist in Toronto and Waterloo for the past 20 years coordinating programs such as the Healthiest Babies Possible program. Big Big Benefit: Right to Choose! February 24, 6:30 pm Cilento Winery, Woodbridge Enjoy an evening celebrating culture and agriculture in a unique setting. Symphony In The Barn presents The Big Big Benefit: Right To Choose! fundraiser, Saturday February 24, 2007, 6:30 p.m. at the Cilento Winery in Woodbridge, featuring fine culinary offerings, inspiring music and a stimulating auction! Meet with Ontario's leading chefs and savour specialty delights prepared using Organic ingredients by culinary artists like Chefs Michael Stadtlander and Jamie Kennedy. Be entertained by the talented singer and comedienne Dinah Christie who will M.C. the evening. Sit back and sip on award winning fine Ontario wine and microbrew amongst the oak barrels. Be uplifted by the angelic sounds of the Symphony In The Barn Chamber Orchestra and by the enchanting sounds of world instruments. Hear the motivating words of leading Canadian voices, and feel the energy of the live auction - one Glencolton Cow Share will be up for bids! The Big Big Benefit: Right To Choose! event's goal is to raise public awareness and support for Canadians' right to choose healthy food, natural remedies, Organic/sustainable agriculture, a healthy environment….and planet. The Big Big Benefit is a pivotal fundraiser for small scale Organic farmers in Canada with proceeds from admission tickets, food & beverage sales, and auction items going to the Raw Milk Legal Defence Fund. Tickets are limited for this event. Don’t be disappointed - pre-order your tickets to-day! Tickets - $50.00 per person (food & beverage tickets available at event) Generously Sponsored by: March 12th 10 – 3, registration 9:30 FoodShare: 90 Croatia St, Toronto This will be a time to learn about - Making your market beautiful A time to network with other market coordinators and share ideas with new organizations Lunch and refreshments, Yummy food and snacks! Call Angela ElzignaCheng at 416-363-6441 ex 227 or email at angela@foodshare.net to register Toronto's Premier Spring Gardening Event! March 17, 2007 from 10 am to 3 pm at Scadding COurt Community Centre, 707 Dundas St. West on the corner of Bathurst and Dundas (same place as last year and the years before) You'll find wonderful heritage, heirloom, organic, hard to find vegetable, flower and herb seeds--to buy and to trade. There will be workshops (topics soon TBA--check at FoodShare) plus an Eco-Fair with Toronto's most inspiring environmental and gardening organizations. Have lunch with some tasty and healthy treats from inventive local food providers. All of this for a suggested donation of $2! Seedy Saturday happens in cities and town all across Canada and is in support of Seeds of Diversity (Canada) , an organization that works to ensure the survival of diverse hertiage seeds. Toronto's Seedy Saturday is brought to you by the Toronto Community Garden Network with support from Scadding Court Community Centre, The Stop Community Food Centre, FoodShare Toronto, and the Toronto Food Policy Council and with help from the United Way of Greater Toronto. The Real Dirt on Food: Unearthing the Controversies Behind the Food We Eat Wait! Before you take a bite of that apple, check out this conference! Saturday, March 17th, 2007 , 9am - 5pm Tickets: Students $10, on sale from January 29 to March 2 Available at U of T Tix Box Office (located in Hart House) |
