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CR-FAIR  // Posts tagged as "CR-FAIR"

19 Feb Posted by in Seedy Saturday, Speakers | Comments

Like To Know What Your Neighbours Are Up To?

Like To Know What Your Neighbours Are Up To?

Then you’ll love this special double-length Seedy Saturday session on the latest and greatest local ideas for growing more food in the city. Sponsored by CR-FAIR and chaired by Linda Geggie, panelists will tell the stories of innovative local projects, happening right now, and how they can be encouraged to spread across the region. Chris […]

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14 Feb Posted by in Seedy Saturday, Speakers | Comments

Changing the Way We Eat

Changing the Way We Eat

These days we’re challenged to eat healthfully, be it due to cost, quality, or accessibility.  And here in the CRD, there is growing interest in supporting a local food economy. So how might we change the way we eat? In this lively session, each speaker has no more than 3 minutes and 5 images to […]

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Want a Growing Business?

Want a Growing Business?

Do you think it’s about time you put your plants to work? Sure, you may eat some of them, but what have they done for you lately? Isn’t it about time they started paying some of the bills? If you’ve been having thoughts like these in the middle of the night, then Seedy Saturday has […]

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02 Feb Posted by in Seedy Saturday, Speakers | Comments

Waste Not

Waste Not

We waste our food. By some estimates, as much as 1/3 of all food grown in the world never gets eaten. More than half the food chucked out in Canada is binned locally – in people’s homes or at neighbourhood groceries. So, to reduce the amount of waste, we need to act locally. This year […]

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Eat from your Street

Eat from your Street

That’s not setting out plates and cutlery in the left-turn lane, you understand. No, we’re talking about growing your food very near where you live, especially in (previously) unconventional places and ways. Last year’s discussion on this topic became so lively that we thought we’d never persuade the audience that we had run out of […]

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