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Hey everyone – hope you all had a lot of fun at yesterday’s market – thank you Mother Nature for cutting the rainstorm short just before market opening! And fun continues – next week, we are holding our special Seniors’ Market to celebrate our community’s most senior citizens! Seniors, kick off the Kerby Centre Fall Senior Expo [...] Just wanted to bring your attention to this cool new Web initiative called “Meet Your Farmers’ Market“, where they capture conversations, stories and ideas from the people at the Farmers’ Market. We are so glad that the Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market was chosen as Episode 1’s Podcast. In Episode 1, listen as some of our [...] If last night’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movie night was any indication, Calgarians are ready to actively participate in the local food movement. It was standing room only for the free screening of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. (Un)intentionally, lo-fi was the theme of the night, as the machines would not cooperate to allow [...] We are so excited to announce that the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Centre will be the drop off / pick up location for Eagle Creek Farms CSA this season! Pick ups will be Thursdays during the summer. I believe they will be able to inform everyone what to expect that week a bit in advance, so [...] I just came back from Local 201 this morning, and once again, I was blown away. 2.5 hours, 23 speakers – whew! By the end of the presentations, I was completely overwhelmed with the staggering abundance of really exciting projects going on in and around the city around securing and maintaining a sustainable local food [...] Just wanted to draw your attention to a great post over at our mother Web site on the Fallen Fruit Rescue Project. A group in town provides volunteers who come and harvest your fruit tree so that you get one third of the harvested fruit, the volunteers get one third, and the last third goes [...] If you all haven’t already heard, a new farmer’s market will hopefully be opening in South Calgary this summer – the Kingsland Market! I have to admit, I was completely surprised to hear about this. I mean, I knew there was talk that a number of vendors would not be moving with the Calgary Farmer’s [...] We all came out of last night’s meeting with lists of fabulous potential vendors to contact for the upcoming market. Many other tasks were assigned, such as figuring how to make parking easier for visitors – ideas from off site parking partnerships to pedicabs were tossed around. We also brainstormed a potential name change, and with [...] On that last post, you may be wondering, who ARE you people, anyhow? Well, “we”, formally and informally, are a combination task force made up of a very few staff members of the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association, a not for profit organization, and a handful of people who live in the community, variously described as [...] The 2010 Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market will be a bit of a clean slate. New people, new ideas. So, in order to build momentum for this year’s market, we thought we’d try a bit o’ blogging to keep all of those people interested updated on our progress, provide a venue for some collective virtual brainstorming [...] |
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