June is certainly busy here in Montreal! Between graduation ceremonies, weird weather patterns, summer courses (for those of us who are secretly much younger than their freshly-graduated MFSP counterparts) and exciting new partnerships with venues across campus and beyond, McGill Food Systems Project has its hands happily full with fresh and exciting projects. Some food systems-related happenings in the McGill/Montreal community:
Equiterre, a Montreal-based organization that supports inciting both individuals and government to implement sustainable, environmentally-friendly choices and practices into daily life, has begun operating an exciting online resource for Quebec residents to help them locate the closest farms to their individual locations. See http://www.equiterre.org/solution/repertoire-manger-local-au-quebec for more information: the site lists farmers’ markets, online markets, baskets/CSAs and institutions that support local farmers.
People’s Food Policy (Politique alimentaire populaire), an organization that aims to establish pan-Canadian food sovereignty institutionalized at the national level, is hosting a 5 à 7 to celebrate their inception and future projects. For more information, see the above website and check out our calendar for event info.
McGill Farm Volunteering: Interested in working on one of the campus plots this summer? There are lots of excited options to choose from : learn some skills, gain some muscles and contribute to some awesome community initiatives. http://campuscropsmcgill.blogspot.com/,
http://mseg.weebly.com/volunteer.html,
http://www.santropolroulant.org/2009/E-garden.htm
