Food Program
The Galiano Community Food Program works to build community and food security on our small island. We hold community potlucks, weekly Soup and Bread lunches and monthly Games Nights, plus organize Gleaning, Frozen Meals for Seniors, a Garlic Coop, Cheese Club, Workshops, School Garden Programs and much more.
Club Parks & Programs
The Galiano Club owns and maintains the South Community Hall, as well as over 830 acres of parkland on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada including Bluffs Park, Mount Galiano and the Community Forest. The Club runs the Community Food Program, is the home of the Galiano Players Theatre, hosts the Annual Blackberry Festival and Christmas Market. The Galiano Club was founded in 1924.
Community Hall
The Hall is a hub of the Galiano community and many of our local events are held there on an ongoing basis. It is also a favourite place for concerts, dances, weddings, plays, exhibitions, lectures, etc. The kitchen has convection ovens, industrial sinks, counters and cupboards and all manner of conveniences, and we’re quite proud of it.
Community Hall
The Hall is a hub of the Galiano community and many of our local events are held there on an ongoing basis. It is also a favourite place for concerts, dances, weddings, plays, exhibitions, lectures, etc. The kitchen has convection ovens, industrial sinks, counters and cupboards and all manner of conveniences, and we’re quite proud of it.
Club Parks & Programs
The Galiano Club owns and maintains the South Community Hall, as well as over 830 acres of parkland on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada including Bluffs Park, Mount Galiano and the Community Forest. The Club runs the Community Food Program, is the home of the Galiano Players Theatre, hosts the Annual Blackberry Festival and Christmas Market. The Galiano Club was founded in 1924.
Food Program
The Galiano Community Food Program works to build community and food security on our small island. We hold community potlucks, weekly Soup and Bread lunches and monthly Games Nights, plus organize Gleaning, Frozen Meals for Seniors, a Garlic Coop, Cheese Club, Workshops, School Garden Programs and much more.
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Cooking from the Pantry
Gather in our Hall kitchen to learn a tasty recipe that puts those veggies in your storeroom to good use. We’ll be making soup, pasta sauce and other yummy treats. Come cook, have supper, and take home food for your freezer.
Class costs $10-$20 sliding scale. Register at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com
Apple Sauce & Pear Butter
Learn how to make homemade applesauce or Pear Butter that is much tastier than store bought, perfect for school lunches or serving with latkes. Please bring 4 x 250ml jars and any apples (from your own apple trees only please).Fingers crossed we will be using apples or pears from the Gleaning program.
Sliding Scale of $10 -15. Register at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com
Jams, Jellies & Marmalades
More summer in a jar! We’ll be making jam the old-fashioned way. Long boil style, with the wrinkle test and thermometers, and canning it using a boiling water bath. Alison will demonstrate jelly-making, and we’ll put up one kind of marmalade. There will be a discussion on the various pectin levels of different fruits at different times of the year.
Sliding Scale of $15-25, includes a copy of Galiano Island Preserves
Register at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com
Putting up Pickles, Sept 10th – 5pm-8pm
Pickled foods offer intense flavours to enhance your winter diet. By preserving local crops now when they are at the height of freshness, you can capture their best flavour and nutrition.
Come learn some new skills, and join us for a fun evening of pickling. We’ll put up whatever’s ready—probably beans and beets—using the boiling water bath method. Beginners and experienced picklers welcome. Please bring at least four 500ml canning jars.
Class costs $10-$20 sliding scale. Register at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com
Beginners’ Jam – Aug 29th – 5pm-7pm
Galiano summers yield an amazing variety of tree fruits and berries, available from our farmers, through our Gleaning program and in your own backyard. Making jam is a great way to capture the taste of summer in a jar to brighten up those dark winter days.
Making jam can be daunting if you’ve never tried it. But there are different methods, and some are very easy. In this class we will be using commercial pectin and the only skills needed are the ability to measure a few cups of fruit, and the ability […]
Grain Growing on Galiano by Mike Hoebel
As an experiment, last year I acquired seeds for ten varieties of wheat and four of barley from Salt Spring Seeds and other sources and planted a small test row of each variety in my garden. After initial watering no further water was provided to the growing grain other than rainfall. Germination rates varied among the varieties but all produced grain, which was harvested in late September. In addition to the amount of grain produced, I wanted to see how susceptible the different varieties were to “lodging”, i.e. falling over in wind […]
Upcoming Club Events
Upcoming Food Program Events
