Comments on: Find your tribe

By: Gifts and promises « Slow Coast

Gifts and promises « Slow Coast — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:47:06 +0000

[...] the Chehalis Gathering of the BC Food Systems Network in late September; [...]

By: Are we a bioregion yet? « Powell River Food Security Project

Are we a bioregion yet? « Powell River Food Security Project — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:48:51 +0000

[...] seems to be in the air lately. The theme of the BC Food Systems Network’s annual gathering back in late September was bioregionalism, and this theme recurred just last week at an event that I helped to organize. [...]

By: Are we a bioregion yet? « Slow Coast

Are we a bioregion yet? « Slow Coast — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:15:45 +0000

By: Keira

Keira — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:51:04 +0000

You’ve whetted my appetite for next year’s gathering. Thanks for sharing.

By: The time of slowing down « Slow Coast

The time of slowing down « Slow Coast — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:56:25 +0000

[...] I like this time of year, though. There is something comforting, hidden underneath the distress at losing the warmth. It’s time to start contracting into projects centred on the home and time to start picking up the dropped threads of plans with other people who also have been too busy and outward-focused to think about developing common projects. Fall, for me, now means the beginning of the planning ahead to Seedy Saturday (March 13, 2010). And it looks as though a group of folks are going to keep talking and planning through the winter for the Exhibit Hall at the Fall Fair. And sometime during the winter I hope to start gathering together a gang of people to plan ahead for the 50-mile eat-local challenge and Edible Garden Tour (v2.0). I’m starting to remember some of the grandiose plans I had last winter, which somehow never came to fruition — a little like our cherry tree this summer. Maybe I’ll revive that idea of a cooperative… after all, I did convene a Working Group on Food-Security Cooperatives at the recent annual gathering of the BC Food Systems Network. [...]