Breaking Barriers to Food Insecurity in NL

Online via Zoom Newfoundland and Labrador

Breaking Barriers to Food Insecurity in NL is a week-long conference happening March 15th-21st that engages youth ages 15-29 in the fight against food insecurity in our province.   There will be one speaker featured every evening from Monday, March 15th to Friday, March 19th to educate youth on what their organization is doing to […]

Free

Foraging For Beginners with Shawn Dawson

Online via Zoom Newfoundland and Labrador

Find your food in the wilderness. Safely and with confidence. Join Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries for a virtual presentation with Shawn Dawson of "The Foragers Dinner". Get back to nature and get something to eat! Email reference@nlpl.ca to register with your library card. Registration will be closed 1 hour before the start of the […]

Free

Community Update: St. John’s Food Assessment

Food First NL is leading a St. John’s Food Assessment to take on complex issues by working together and using our strengths. Our goal is to engage with community members, inform people and policy makers, and help everyone take action on food. This meeting will highlight the results of our online survey and focus groups, […]

Free

Getting Your Garden Ready with Dan Rubin

Online via Zoom Newfoundland and Labrador

Let’s get your garden ready with local gardener educator Dan Rubin of Perfectly Perennial Herbs and Seeds. Dan will discuss ​clearing your beds and rows, adding compost and organic soil amendments, what your plants will need to do really well, where to find local, free soil ingredients, early seed starting, selecting varieties well-adapted to local […]

Free

Seed Library Info Session

Online via Zoom Newfoundland and Labrador

Join Sarah Crocker of Food First NL and John Griffin of the A.C Hunter as they talk about our seed library partnership works and how you can get some seeds for free. Please email your library card number to juliamayo@nlpl.ca to register. The links to events are not posted on Facebook. It will be emailed […]

Free

Sea to School Webinar

Join Food First NL and Fishing for Success to learn more about Sea to School in North America, and opportunities and challenges experienced in developing these types of programs.

Free

Rural Women’s Studies Association -14th Triennial Conference

The RWSA is an international association to advance farm and rural women’s/gender studies in historical perspective. We welcome scholars from diverse fields as well as rural organizations and communities. Join us as we share knowledge about rural women, food, and other issues on the table: activism, feminism, social justice, mental health, innovation, community development, and cultural expression, […]

$35 – $87

Introduction to Beekeeping in Newfoundland and Labrador

Catherine Dempsey will provide an introduction to keeping honeybees and will discuss how "saving the bees" is all about saving native species. Lots of practical tips will be discussed and you will see bee keeping equipment first-hand. You will leave the lecture with a better understanding of honeybees and other pollinators in NL and, as […]

$10

ECHO VILLAGE II: Songs of Metamorphosis -Presented by Sound Symposium & MUN Botanical Garden

MUN Botanical Gardens 306 Mt. Scio Road, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Sound Symposium returns to the Botanical Garden for the second instalment of Echo Village, a living, sounding tableau of local singers, instrumentalists, and sonic visionaries. Echo Village: Songs of Metamorphosis features works from the contemporary choral and operatic repertoire, as well as reimagined works from the early music canon. The evening unfolds as a journey […]