Burnaby Neighbourhood History: Stories of the Place we Call Home 
Join the Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby Public Library and City of Burnaby for a speaker series on a diverse range of local history topics.
For those who have a special interest in Food Security, the Nov. 4th talk about Burnaby's Agricultural Roots would be of interest!
Register online at
www.bpl.bc.ca/events to register a spot to attend!
Talks:History of Barnet Village - Wednesday Oct. 7, 2015
From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McGill Library, 4595 Albert Street
Burnaby's Rivers & Streams - Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015
From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Burnaby Village Museum (Carousel Activity Room), 6501 Deer Lake Avenue
Chinese Canadian History in Burnaby & Beyond - Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015
From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Bob Prittie Metrotown Library, 6100 Willingdon Avenue
People of the Inlet: Archaeology & the Tsleil-Wauthuth Story - Wednesday Oct. 28, 2015
From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Cameron Library, 9523 Cameron Street
Burnaby's Agricultural Roots - Wednesday Nov. 4, 2015
From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway
Walking Tours:Tour the Masjid Al Salaam Mosque & Islamic Education Centre - Saturday Oct. 17
From 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
5060 Canada Way
Tour the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015
From 3:00 pm to 4;30 pm
6688 Southoaks Cresent
For more information, please visit:
http://www.bpl.bc.ca/burnaby-neighbourhood-history.
Nourish: Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network Throughout October participating businesses across the city are
partnering with the Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks to raise funds
for our work. Participating businesses will be donating proceeds from
their special promotions to your local neighbourhood food network and to
the citywide Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks.
Participating
businesses include:
- Havana Restaurant: $1 from each dessert throughout the month of October will be donated.
- The Fish Counter: Partial proceeds on October 17 Pink Salmon Day will be donated with thanks to the FISH counter and the MV Pacific Provider.
- Nester�s Market Main Street: A
Healthy Gift Basket will be raffled off at Garden Fantasies: A Seed to
Seed Event, hosted by the Little Mountain-Riley Park Neighbourhood Food
Network, in partnership with the Terry Salmon VPL Branch and the Riley
Park Hillcrest Community Association, on October 18th from 1-4pm at Hillcrest Community Centre, 4575 Clancy Loranger Way.
More information:
http://vancouverfoodnetworks.com/#home check under "Events"
Langley, BC: Heritage Apple Day - Saturday Oct. 3rdA free family event which includes apple tasting, old-fashioned tasks, fiddling,
artists painting, historians, and other fun activities.
Location: Meet at the
Heritage Area on Allard Crescent, north of 96th Ave, 4km west of Fort
Langley.
From 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
For more information, visit:
http://drbipa.org/index.html.
Fort Langley Cranberry Festival - Saturday Oct. 10th
Along Glover Road in the village of Fort
Langley, pick up some fresh cranberries for your Thanksgiving feast and
browse nearly 100 vendors� wares in the village of Fort Langley's
biggest event of the year!
At Fort Langley National Historic Site (23433
Mavis Ave.), watch a barrel-making demonstration, try cranberry
bannock, play cranberry-related games, and more.
From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
For more information, visit:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/bc/langley/activ/activ2015.aspx#a13.
Sustenance Festival Vancouver: Oct. 13 to 25th"As we are, Together"
Sustenance has been an annual festival of the Vancouver Park Board.
Sustenance is all about food, art, sustainability, celebration,
discussion, and food security. It�s dynamic, creative, delicious,
educating, and timely.
Check out the what is being offered on the Sustenance Festival events calendar:
http://sustenancefestival.ca/events-2015/.
On October 15, 2015, head up to Burnaby Mountain at 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm and join EMBARK in the Eat Think Vote series of food events across the country to engage citizens and
candidates in the upcoming federal election on making a national food
policy a reality in Canada.
Our local federal candidates will gather with the SFU
community over refreshments, and listen to the community�s concerns
around food.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.embarksustainability.org/eatthinkvote.
UBC Apple Festival - Oct. 17 & 18thOctober 17-18, 2015, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
$4 cash entry (Children 12 years and under free)
A family event for all ages, the UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of
British Columbia's favourite fruits. From children learning about the
diversity of apples to those who remember tasting heritage apples in
their youth, the Apple Festival is a great opportunity to not only
discover more about this delicious fruit, but have a whole lot of fun
doing it!
For more information, visit:
http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/node/7.
Farmer's Markets in BC Don't forget to check out all the local
farmer's markets in and around BC.
With fall here and temperatures dropping, get as much
local harvest from the Burnaby Farmer's Market every Saturday from 9 am
to 2 pm at
City Hall! Last Burnaby Farmer's Market will be October 24th!
More information for Burnaby Farmer's Markets and events, visit
http://www.artisanmarkets.ca/ ---
Don't forget to check back on our website for our gardening or cooking
workshops. We have some great workshops in the works and events will be
posted shortly!
If you have a farming/gardening/food security event that you would like to share, please email us with the information to: burnabyfoodfirst@gmail.com. We would be happy to share your events on our blog!
This weekend is Evan and my one year wedding anniversary! How on earth did a year pass by so quickly!? We barely got all of our thank you cards out within the one year grace period, and I never even really shared that many photos on here or really blogged about our wedding! Ack! 
So, in case you missed it, Evan and I got married a year ago! And it was awesome. Man, I loved our wedding. I want to do it every year! Minus paying for it every year. Maybe every 10 years?
We had all our favorite music: a Neutral Milk Hotel cover for the processional, Calvin Harris Feel so Close for the recessional, a little Miley when we entered the reception (because it's our party we can do what we want...), Evan�s brother and our friend Scott performing Take my Breath Away for our first dance, and the Stones� Wild Horses, for my dad. 
We had our favorite local food and bevvies: A ton of woodfire pizza, donuts for dessert, an amazing coconut and hazelnut layer cake with chocolate filling and vanilla buttercream (swoon) made my our friend Mer, hoppy and pumpkiny beer from our favorite breweries plus a little homebrew from our friend Mat, and northwest wine and bubbles. 
