Thursday, July 13th - Join us for a fun and informative evening about Burnaby Food First's Sharing Backyards Program

April 1st Workshop - Learn to Grow Food in a Container Garden

March 27 - Free Workshop: Soup, Frittata, Salad & Muffins

Come join Red Seal Chef Ilan Wright to learn, cook & eat a healthy meal. 

Location: Gilmore Community School, Burnaby. 

Registration required: information below.

March 13th - Come Cook & Eat: Soup & Frittata, Salad & Muffins

Join Burnaby Food First & Red Seal Chef Ilan Wright at Burnaby Neighbourhood House 

(near Metrotown Skytrain Station)

Registration information below:

March 15 Discussion - Income & Food Connection

Join Burnaby Food First to discuss the links between income & food, find out what exists in our community to decrease food insecurity, and explore solutions to hunger in Burnaby.

To participate, please register on Eventbrite (information below):

Be a Food Hero: Come Learn How to Stop Food Waste (March 7)

March 4: Rally Against Poverty / March 15: Discussion - Income & Food

Community Garden Planning in Burnaby Takes Root

On Saturday, February 25, Burnaby Food First hosted a Community Garden Planning workshop at Burnaby Village Museum. The idea was to get people thinking about available public land that might be suitable for community gardens. The intention was to plant the seeds of an idea...

Workshop facilitator Grant Rice soon discovered that those seeds had already been planted: many of the Burnaby community members who showed up had already picked out a potential garden site. They had come to find out how to make their gardens a reality.

Presentations by guests Jason Hsieh and Michael Denhamer helped participants look more specifically at opportunities, barriers and ways forward for the development of their imagined community gardens.



Hsieh spoke about his experience with the City of Vancouver, and walked participants through different guidelines and municipal policies that frame the process of establishing a community garden in Vancouver.



Denhamer, who works with Can You Dig It, explained the support that his organization can offer community garden groups in creating sustainable projects that become community assets. Can You Dig It has already helped communities create thriving gardens through 3-year commitments that aid in: navigating application processes and grant applications, locating infrastructure (such as water sources), licensing and insuring the garden, and helping new community gardeners establish governance.

This process was discussed at length in the small groups that formed following the presentations. Grant Rice, events and conference coordinator for Burnaby Food First, passed around maps of Burnaby and encouraged people to identify sites with the potential to become garden spaces. Working with Burnaby's website and maps, he helped participants examine the zoning and context of the sites.

Community gardens are more than communal green spaces. As Denhamer remarked, "community gardens grow food and cultivate community." Many of those who came would like to meet further to discuss future projects and next steps. Rev Kunz, who manages the Gathering Burnaby Gardeners Facebook group hopes that interested community members will get in touch through her page.

The afternoon was an exciting opportunity for Burnaby Food First to meet with local citizens who are spearheading gardening projects in their neighbourhoods. We hope this will become the next step of a greener Burnaby that provides greater food security within our municipality.





Many thanks to the United Way Lower Mainland for their continued support of Burnaby Food First initiatives, and to Burnaby Village Museum for the use of their facilities for our community workshop last weekend.

March 4 - Join Burnaby Food First at the Rally to Reduce Poverty in BC

This Saturday, come meet us @ noon at Library Square (350 W. Georgia) and raise your voice: call out for a strategy to end poverty in the province.

What does poverty mean to Burnaby Food First?

• Students and employees cannot afford to eat 3 times a day


• Invisible hunger: malnutrition results from a lack of affordable nutritious food


• Families cannot afford to eat a variety of foods


• People on fixed incomes may not be able to fit nutritious meals into their budget


• More and more people do not have access to land, & cannot grow food to supplement their diet


• Local farmers struggle to put food on our table

 

Raise your voice for empty stomachs! Come find Burnaby Food First at the rally:

Feb 25 - Come Imagine Community Gardens in Burnaby

It might be difficult to imagine spring gardens with all the snow we've had. But beneath the snow, is there land that could be used for community gardening?



On February 25, join us for an afternoon at Burnaby Village Museum to find spaces in Burnaby that might be used to plan community gardens. Local experts from "Can You Dig It" and Vancouver community gardens will lead this conversation on planning spaces where community members can come together to cultivate food and flowers.



This is a free event, open to all. Register here.

Put Food First in 2017: Come to a Food Workshop

Burnaby Food First Invites you...

January 19th & 25th to

Join us & learn about Canning & Fermenting

Best Wishes for Healthy Holidays!

Come Cook with Us! - Dec 7

Come cook with us one last time in 2016

Join Chef Sherry Strong & learn to make festive vegetarian leftovers this month. 

Workshop is FREE, but registration is required. Children are welcome!

Delicious, Nutritious Holiday Giving

Join Burnaby Food First Tomorrow, Sun. Dec. 4

Free Workshop, Children Welcome

Upcoming December Workshops from Burnaby Food First

FREE Event for Hungry Minds: Just Eat It!

Want to tickle your taste buds & chat with a film star?

Save the date: Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Join us at: Burnaby Central Secondary (Map)

Space is limited: REGISTER HERE

 

Join Burnaby Food First & ACE-IT Culinary Arts Program at Burnaby Central on November 29th. Meet fellow food enthusiasts, learn about food waste and how to reduce it.

Schedule: 

6:00pm - Enjoy delicious appetizers prepared by

                ACE-IT Culinary Arts students

6:30pm - Watch award-winning documentary

                "Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story"

7:45pm - Discussion with producer & co-star

               Jen Rustemeyer



Teachers & Student Mentors:

Want to have a food waste discussion in the classroom, but don't know where to start? Click here for some Just Eat It resources, including books, articles, blogs & policy documents from Canada and the United States.



Can't Wait for November 29th?

Check out Jen's presentation at Burnaby Food First's Food Matters Forum last June:

             This event is made possible thanks to 

               the generous support of our donors

Doing More with your Bread Basket

Doing More with your Bread Basket

What: Learn what to do with your leftover bread, pita, tortilla & rolls

When: Monday, October 17th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Where: Tommy Douglas Branch, Burnaby Public Library

Cost: FREE

Registration Required:

Contact Meghan by e-mail: burnabyfoodfirst@gmail.com, or phone: 604-209-2404

Whole Foods Market & You: Helping the Environment and Burnaby Food First

Every time you shop at Whole Foods Market in Burnaby until the end of September, you have an opportunity to support Burnaby Food First. All you have to do is bring your own shopping bag, and then tell the cashier you'd like to donate the cost of a bag to Burnaby Food First.

Whole Foods Market partners with schools and non-profits through their Bag Refund Donation Program to help raise money for important community causes. At the register, customers have the option to receive the bag refund as cash back off their receipt or to donate it to one of three designated organizations each fiscal quarter.



The donations we receive between July 4 and September 25, 2016 will contribute to Burnaby Food First projects. Every little bit helps!



To receive updates on our projects and upcoming community workshops, check back often or subscribe to our email list.

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Enjoy Burnaby Food First workshops? Want to get involved as a volunteer?



Check out all the great ways you can get involved. All are welcome, and we'd love to have you on board! For more information, send us an email.

Groundskeeper for Burnaby Regional Allotment Gardens Association

Groundskeeper Wanted for BARAGA!



Burnaby and Regional Allotment Gardens Association (BARAGA) is looking for a groundskeeper

for their 14-acre allotment garden.



Duties include:

• Operating a tractor mower;


• Using gas mowers and weed trimmer;


• Cleaning up garbage; and 


• General management of the common areas of the garden. 

Good communication with gardeners is also required.



This is a temporary position for students (only) beginning May 30th for 16 weeks. The last few weeks can be done part time if this interferes with a return to school.



Rate of pay: $15/hour 35 hours/week



Download BARAGA's job posting (in PDF).



Please email your resume and cover letter to the attention of Ann at directors@baraga.ca by May 20, 2016.

Looking to garden in Burnaby?

Burnaby Association of Community Inclusion (BACI) - Still Creek & Filby Court Community Gardens



Interested in growing good food & great friends? Join one of BACI�s community gardens at Still Creek or Filby Court in Burnaby!



Register to attend the Registration Meeting for the Still Creek garden!



When: Monday April 4, 2016

Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Where: 2702 Norland Avenue in Burnaby





Or join the Registration Meeting for the Filby Court garden!



When: Tuesday April 5, 2016

Time: 6:00 pm -7:30 pm

Where:  3755 Banff Avenue in Burnaby





How to Register to attend:

To register or to request a plot:



Visit: http://gobaci.com/news/baci-community-gardens-register-now/

OR contact steve.sale@gobaci.com 

OR call 604-299-1279.