Building resilience in the Saugeen Region.
100 Mile March
Shane: I didn't have too much time to discuss the 100 Mile March with you. The concept is to do the walk Teeswater to Formosa, Formosa to Walkerton, Walkerton to Chesley, Chesley to Paisley, Paisley to Port Elgin, Port Elgin to Tiverton, Tiverton to Kincardine, Kincardine to Ripley and Ripley back to Teeswater. The cause will be to raise a) awareness of the need for local fresh foods to form part of the offering for Good Food Boxes and Food Banks (perhaps by a food certificates for people to have acces to fresh foods once per week), and b) to support farmers in the region who produce edible food (which most of them DON'T).
If you are interested in this project we should sit down sometime and discuss the logistics. I think I have a plan in place but it needs discussion.
Also, Transition Teeswater will be holding the 100 Mile Community Pot Luck to which all of your contacts and other Transition Community members will be welcome. The prerequisite will be to bring a dish that you have tried your best to make using local food products. The key will be to identify those products you could obtain locally but perhaps more importantly to identify those food products you could NOT obtain locally. This is the area wherein lies potential for growth in the local food movement. We will record all of the findings and present them to the local Grey-Bruce Ag and Culinary Association for consideration. If we can get even one producer to consider filling even one gap, we will be making progress.
You mentioned that you have a particular interest in food distribution systems as they relate to local foods. I happened to write my research paper on just that for my last course in the Sustainable Local Foods for All Canadians program I am engaged in. If you are interested in reviewing the findings, let me know. I think there is merit in sharing. The findings need considerable additional research to be undertaken to round out a full report (which I intend on continuing on with) but it's a start.
I can arrange to be off work around 4:30 most days (next week I am in Toronto all week) and if there was an opportunity you felt might work to get together at a half way point, I'd love to talk with you----perhaps Southampton? We could meet up with Heather Pletsch who is very involved as well.
Exciting things happening and glad we are all working together....it is what this rural area really needs-cohesion.
If you are interested in this project we should sit down sometime and discuss the logistics. I think I have a plan in place but it needs discussion.
Also, Transition Teeswater will be holding the 100 Mile Community Pot Luck to which all of your contacts and other Transition Community members will be welcome. The prerequisite will be to bring a dish that you have tried your best to make using local food products. The key will be to identify those products you could obtain locally but perhaps more importantly to identify those food products you could NOT obtain locally. This is the area wherein lies potential for growth in the local food movement. We will record all of the findings and present them to the local Grey-Bruce Ag and Culinary Association for consideration. If we can get even one producer to consider filling even one gap, we will be making progress.
You mentioned that you have a particular interest in food distribution systems as they relate to local foods. I happened to write my research paper on just that for my last course in the Sustainable Local Foods for All Canadians program I am engaged in. If you are interested in reviewing the findings, let me know. I think there is merit in sharing. The findings need considerable additional research to be undertaken to round out a full report (which I intend on continuing on with) but it's a start.
I can arrange to be off work around 4:30 most days (next week I am in Toronto all week) and if there was an opportunity you felt might work to get together at a half way point, I'd love to talk with you----perhaps Southampton? We could meet up with Heather Pletsch who is very involved as well.
Exciting things happening and glad we are all working together....it is what this rural area really needs-cohesion.
Lynn
Lynne
Lynne
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