Vote for Growing Schools & Victoria Native Friendship Centre Youth Council/VI&CCI food networks/CR-FAIR Roundtable co-host Circle of Sharing

[VIPIRG Communications and Outreach]

Hello VIPIRG-Urban-Ag list!

Here are two local food-related forwards! Support the awesome work of Growing Schools, and learn and share at the Roundtable/Circle of Sharing: Our Food, Our Land, and its Medicines.

Take care!

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Please send this far and wide - lets win this!!

 

Hello friends of Growing Schools, The CRD and Lifecycles have a chance to win one of forty $25,000 grants and we need your help!

 

In celebration of its 40th Anniversary, the Keg Steakhouse is giving away $1 Million dollars to community projects across North America. Our project, "Growing Schools: From Classroom to Table", is one of them! If we receive this grant, we can help 5 schools build gardens and offer 50 Growing Schools workshops.... amazing! This could be your school! This grant is based on popularity. Let's show the Keg that citizens of the capital region have an appetite for action and vote for our project to win.

 

Visit http://www.thekegthanksamillion.com/en/phase2/projects/show/p/539 and select Growing Schools: From Classroom to Table.  

 

You can read about our project and cast your ballot. Once you register an email address, you can vote once a day between now and June 14, 2011. Help us plant the seed to a low-carbon future. Vote for the Growing Schools Project today and every day!

 

With many thanks,

Danielle

LifeCycles

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Victoria Native Friendship Centre Youth Council, 

Vancouver Island & Coastal Communities Indigenous Food Network

and CR-FAIR present:

Our Food, Our Land and its Medicines
Date: June 8th, 2011
Victoria Native Friendship Centre
231 Regina Avenue, Victoria, BC
RSVP – fiona.d...@viha.ca 250-886-2122

2:30-4:30 – Elise Presentation and Circle of Sharing (Roundtable)
4:30-6:00– Potluck and Indigenous Plant LIP BALM making
 

Elise Krohn, M.Ed. is a native plant specialist and herbalist who has been working and teaching in tribal communities for the last twelve years. She began her training in 1995 with a Clinical Herbalist certificate at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine and has since completed a two year program in advanced herbal studies, a Bachelor of Science in Pre-Medicine, a Master of Education in Traditional Foods and Medicines. In 2005 she completed a certificate program in ethnobotany with the Center for World Indigenous Studies.

In 2004-2007 Ms. Krohn was the head gardener and educator for the People of the River Healing Garden at the Skokomish Tribe. She is currently an educator and program coordinator for the Native Plant Nutrition Program at the Northwest Indian Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center and for Wild Rose and Western Red Cedar: The Gifts of the Northwest Plants. Her second book Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food Culture was co-authored with Valerie Segrest and was published in 2010.the Northwest Indian College’s Diabetes Prevention Through Traditional Plants Program.