Harvest Fair and Moon Festival

Please join us for the annual Harvest Fair and Moon Festival!

The 9th Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival will take place on Saturday, September 17.

4-7pm
Harvest Fair
Slocan Park (at 29th Avenue Skytrain Station)
Come out to celebrate the full moon, local food, and community. Enjoy live music and entertainment, baked potatoes and sweet cinnamon apples, make a lantern, and meet new neighbours. Bring the best of your garden and enter to win prizes!

This year's categories:

Most sizeable sunflower
Most bountiful flower bouquet
Most gorgeous green bouquet
Most creative fall display
Tastiest homemade jam/jelly
Most alluring Asian vegetable
Most cumbersome cabbage
Tubbiest tomato
Heaviest zucchini
Sexiest squash
Beefiest bean
Craziest carrot


7:15-7:45pm
Twilight Lantern Parade
Slocan Park to Renfrew Park

7:30pm
Festivities!
Lanterns, music, tea and mooncakes at Renfrew Park

8:45pm Finale Performance on Renfrew Field

Volunteer Chefs wanted for Community Kitchens at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House

Dear friends,

The Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House is looking for creative chefs with a passion for social justice to volunteer their time once a month to run a themed Community Kitchen as part of our Right to Food programming. Themes include food preservation (canning, pickling, etc.), health (i.e. cooking for diabetes), baking, and food from different cultures. We are also open to chefs proposing their own themes.

All Community Kitchens follow the DTES NH Right to Food philosophy, which upholds the human right of Downtown Eastside residents to abundant, local, fresh and nutritious food. Food created and served at the DTES NH should use the freshest ingredients and avoid refined sugars and processed foods.

For more information please contact Melanie Spence, Food Activist at the DTES NH: (604) 215-2030


Thank you,

Melanie



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Melanie Spence
Food Activist, DTES Right to Food Initiative

Mondays through Fridays

Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House [DTES NH]
www.dtesnh.wordpress.com
Located on unceded Coast Salish Territory

Our Neighbourhoods, Our Food! Building More Food Secure Neighbourhoods

Pictured: Moving soil at the Collingwood Community Gardens (photo courtesy Arien Crossby).

RC FSI will be co-hosting this event and we hope you can make it!

Wed. October 12
5:30PM-8PM
The Roundhouse Community Centre
Black Box Theatre
181 Roundhouse Mews
FREE (Registration required)

Are you interested in growing your own food or starting a community kitchen? Do you have food skills you’d like to share with your neighbours?

Come to this lively evening of presentations by community groups from across Vancouver who are making their neighbourhoods more resilient, neighbourly and food secure.

Presenting groups will include recipients of the 2010 Greenest City Neighborhood grants, and others! There will even be a round of Food Jeopardy, courtesy of The Downtown Eastside Kitchen Tables Project!

From community potlucks and mobile produce markets to bulk buying clubs, it’s a bumper crop of great ideas.

Refreshments will be provided. Please register in advance as seating is limited and we want to make sure we have enough food.

This event is graciously hosted by SUSTENANCE: Feasting on Arts and Culture Festival. Centered around World Food Day, SUSTENANCE is a celebration which reflects the intersection of art, culture and food in real life! Come join the fun and enter into an exciting dialogue with food from local to global, from historic to present day! Oct 8 – Oct 19th.

Accessibility Notes: The Roundhouse Community Centre is a wheelchair accessible venue. Transit subsidy available at the registration table. Onsite childcare spots available- please pre-register at 604 879 1386.

Click here to register for the event.


Creating a vertical garden using recycled coffee sacks (sacks donated by Ethical Bean Coffee).