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FOOD INTEREST GROUP The Food Interest Group has a goal of increasing our local food capability. We want to be able to feed ourselves without so much reliance on global supply chains. Watch this short video - The Story of Food - to understand why. Feeding ourselves involves a wide range of skills and resources, many of which are reduced or have been lost in a local context. Last year we did a couple of projects involving preserving food. This year we are going to start from the beginning, with workshops on the basics - preparing soil, seeds and seedlings, planting and growing - for a basic set of vegetables. Join in with us at our Neighbourhood Garden project - a joint project between Knox Presbyterian Church, Today's Family Early Learning and Child Care and Dundas in Transition. We break ground on Manday May 17th, 2010 with the help of the Katimavik volunteers currently working in Hamilton.
Look at the slides from the February 19th "Get Your Veggies Growing" workshop below.
Here are some books recommended by our presenters
Food Resources
A fine summary of how we can move to improved local food sustainability is contained in Pathways to Local Food Systems.
Read Will Allen's brilliant Good Food Manifesto for America - it applies to Canada as well!
A way to start gardening on a small scale is shown in this video of Square Foot Gardening
Check out Canadian Frost Dates - for Hamilton it is quoted as April 29 to October 15..but be careful......the warning is that there is a 50% probability of a light frost outside these dates!
Look at this YouTube video Garden on Ferrie Street, to see what one Hamilton resident did with their backyard in a couple of years.
A new perspective on long term Food Security strategy is contained in Food 2030, the UK Government strategy release in January 2010
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