TRURO FOOD, FARMING, AND FLOWERS WEEKEND 

All Are Welcome!

Presented by Truro Living Earth Council, St. Andrew's Church Local Outreach Global Concerns Group, and USC Canada

Foody Friday: March 7, 7:00 - 9:00pm  St. Andrews United, 55 King St., Truro

You are invited to a free variety and discussion evening around global and local food issues.  Short topical films for children will be screened (with free local organic popcorn and apple cider!). 

Think Globally: Musician Bruce Cockburn and Susan Walsh, Executive Director of USC Canada (www.usc-canada.org),  will talk about Seeds of Survival and their recent *trip to Nepal.  Pat Mooney, biodiversity expert, will introduce the new world Seed Map. Music by Megan Isenor & Connections, and Lonecloud

*click for more on Bruce's trip to Nepal

SEEDY SATURDAY-- Food, Farming and Flowers!

Saturday:March 8, 10:00am to 3:30pm  St Andrews United, 55 King st. Truro

-Exhibitors and vendors of local foods, seeds and information

Healthy Habit Herbals	Thrown Together Pottery	The Truro Library
JUDES Foundation	Living Earth Council	W.I.N.S
Seeds of Diversity	USC	Mindy Muffies Baking
Hope Seeds	Nature Script Farms	Co-op Atlantic
That Dutchman	Friends of the Garden	Truro's Farmers' Market
Great Village Farmers' Market	Ruth's Kitchen-jams,  jellies and more	Ecology Action Centre
The Farm Gate	Rural Research-NSAC	Caretakers of the Enviroment
St.Andrews' LOGC	Ben and Anna Walls-baked goods	Sandra and Tony Phillips-honey products
Nova Scotia Beekeepers' Association	Local and Seasonal Cookbooks sales - CCM
Sun Spun Natural Foods	Ronald Robertson-local gardening author

For more information on exhibitors and vendors please click on their name.

- Real Food Film Festival: 

10:15am	Black Gold	Wake up and smell the injustice!
11.35 am	The Future of Food	Small Farmers vs Chemical Giant
1:10 pm	King Corn	Lend an ear to a corny tale!
2.45 pm	The Real Dirt on Farmer John	An emotional, dirty journey! bring a hanky!

For  more information on the films please cick on the title

-Kids' Activities

Learning about Food and Where it Comes from

10:00am-1:00 pm	Arts and Crafts
1:00 - 1.45pm	* The Wilderbeats
2:00 - 3 00 pm	Pizza making with Angelo's Organic pizza
1.45- 3:30 pm	Arts and Crafts

*click on the Wilderbeats for more infomation.

-Workshops

10:15am	Healthy Landscapes	LEC
11.00am	Seed Saving	Michelle Smith
12:00 pm	Ask Marjorie	Marjorie Willison
1:00 pm	World Saving (for youth)	Susan Walsh-USC
2:00 pm	Starting Seeds Organically	Michelle Smith
3:00 pm	Healthy Landscapes	LEC

Discussion Café

Join in discussion about Food, Farming and Gardening.  -

Special guest-Louise Hanavan (backyard hen advocate) will be on hand to discuss connecting to our food.

Meet a Farmer: 

Farmers will be honoured guests, when you see a farmer wearing a name tag please say hello and have a chat about farm life today.

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Farmers please tell a greeter that you are a farmer and they will make sure you get branded.

SEED EXCHANGE:

Bring seeds to exchange with other gardeners.  There will be seeds on hand to purchase as well. 

FYI

St Andrew's United is a nut free zone.  Please do not bring any items containing peanuts or other nuts.  Food vendors will be on hand and our Discussion Café will feature homemade soup and biscuits.

Children under 12 must have a guardian or parent in attendance at the event. 

Entrance and activities are free: donations will be accepted for the Local Food Outreach Program of St. Andrew,s.

A big THANK YOU to St. Andrew's for hosting our event. 

Please support farmers and merchants by choosing local, sustainable food.

Black Gold presented by:  

The Future of Food and King Corn presented by:  USC Canada

with the support from:  The Colchester CO-OP, Truro's Wacky Wheatley's and JUST US! Coffee Roasters Co-op

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                COFFEE ROASTERS CO-OP

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