The funky offspring of the Galiano Club, the Food Program began in 2008.
The Galiano Community Food Program strives to ensure that Galiano Island is a thriving, livable, food-secure community, where every resident feels included, welcome and empowered to build a deeper connection with their food system. In so doing, the Program improves Galiano’s ecological sustainability and community resilience in the face of climate change and uncertainty. The program seeks to set an example that reaches beyond our local community and spreads across the country.
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Seed Saving Session – Saturday, November 12th, 11am
Please join us at the Community Greenhouse at the school garden for a hands-on session, led by Galiano Conservancy Food Forester Cedana Bourne and the Food Program’s Barry New, to prepare some of our seed harvest. We will get together for threshing, winnowing and learning to process some difficult-to-save seeds. Please bring your gatherings and some containers for the seeds. Paper bags and envelopes are best. All are welcome, even if you didn’t grow any seeds this year: just bring your questions and curiosity. Free for SLOG, GCA, or Greenhouse Community Members. By donation otherwise. Any questions? Please contact Barry at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com or Cedana at cedana.bourne@galianoconservancy.ca
★ Stock Up! Market ★
4th annual on Sat Oct 15, 10:00am-1:00pm at the South Hall
Shop for winter storage crops directly from LOCAL farmers IN BULK to fill your pantry for the winter. Load up on local root veggies, greens, cabbage, squash, apples, tomatoes, peppers, meats, fish, preserves and pickles. Last market of the season! Volunteers needed to help with set up and clean up.
CABLE BAY FARM, Retreat Cove
Galiano organically grown produce: Green and Red Peppers; bunches of Hakurei White Salad Turnips, Merlin & Cylindra Beets and Beet Greens
CLEARSKY FARMS
Garlic, winter squash, tomatillos, kale, bulk tomatoes, pole beans, black beans, and apples.
COUNTRY WOOLS, SIDNEY
Olde country sheep with pasture perfect lamb, including sausages. Eggs, squash, cascade berry vinaigrette.
DAISY HILL FARM, Galiano Island
Preserves, salsa, tomatoes.
DONNA MARBEN
Preserves, dried fruit, and fresh fruit and vegetables.
GALIANO COMMUNITY FOOD PROGRAM
Organic applesauce.
LAURIE MACCALLUM, Therah valley, Galiano Island
IOPA certified garlic.
SCHNARE, HYNICK, CROUSE & SONS {OCEANWISE SEAFOOD} – Captain Thomas Schnare
Fresh frozen Sockeye fillets; cold-smoked Albacore Tuna loins; Smoked Sockeye half-fillets; pre-sliced goldboard cold-smoked sockeye; thick-sliced ‘pounder’ smoked salmon bellies.
GALIANO SUNSHINE FARMS
Squash, potatoes, storage onions, hot peppers, broccoli, kale, apples, garlic and chard.
HOPE HILL FARM, Salt Spring Island
Whole frozen chicken, beef, winter squash, garlic, and sweet onions.
BECKY’S HOT FOOD available while you shop.
Spicy Jamaican patties (beef and veg.) samosas (beef, chicken, veg., and spinach), chicken wraps (with coconut milk base and spices), homemade Jamaican ginger beer, and ginger cookies. These […]
Gleaning Report by Emma Luna Davis
Another fruitful season of the Gleaning Project is drawing to a close. Every year I’m amazed at the generosity of this island, and the incredible bounty that we share. I feel so lucky to have this job since picking fruit outside with friends and neighbours is one of my all-time favourite activities. There really is nothing more beautiful than the sunlight coming through the leaves of an apple tree, and there is a special kind of zen to picking ripe fruit. And always the promise that the next one will be the biggest or the most perfect or the sweetest.
This year so far, the Gleaning Project has brought 65 volunteers together to pick over 8,500 lbs of produce, including assorted varieties of plums, figs, hazelnuts, crabapples, apples, pears, quinces, corn and kale. The volunteers who come out find all kinds of creative ways to use the harvest for their families: drying, pickling, canning, and of course just fresh eating. This year, one picker is using an upcycled washing machine to make cider! The Food Program’s share was distributed to families in need, as well as used for workshops and community kitchens and events.
This year it seems the word about this project really got around, as we had double the number of landowners and farmers who reached out and invited us to come pick. We are very […]
1st Annual Tug O’War at the Community Picnic
Tug of war teams will start competing at 12:30pm
Teams will consist of 4 to 8 people.
Form your teams ahead of time – or pick up tug-of-war on Sunday.
The 7th Annual Community Potluck Picnic
The Galiano Community School & Activity Centre, Sep 11, 12-4pm, rain or shine
Come join your neighbours, bring a friend, meet someone new. Share a favourite dish, stories, games and live music. Last year was a blast! Celebrate the end of a great summer. Everyone, young and old, is welcome.
Pie-baking contest! Zucchini Races! Soccer game! New this year: Tug-o-war at 12:30!
Zucchini races!
Two categories: kids and adults. Each category is divided into two vehicle types: Integral (i.e. the vehicle would collapse if the zucchini was removed) and modified. There is also an award for the most creative vehicle design. Vehicles can be no more than 13” wide, and to win a prize, all the power must be supplied by the incline ramp. However, in the words of the judges:
“No zucchini, no matter how outrageous, will be refused!”
Allotment Society Garden Contest categories:
*Best basket of fruit
*Best basket of vegetables
*Biggest Pumpkin
*Tallest Sunflower
*Best bunch of flowers (wild or grown)
Galiano Gastronomic Book Club
Want to read and discuss writing on food, agriculture, sustainability, politics? Share insights, critique, explore, and discover? Read the book and join the discussion! See weekly Food Program newsletters for titles and meeting times.
See “Galiano Gastronomic Book Club” on Facebook for more info or contact Lauren Magner.