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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Ian Hussey, the Bearded Beekeeper will be providing an info session all about Newfoundland beekeeping, how we can support the bees and what to do if you would like to keep bees yourself.
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
Come & view the garden at 74 Reid Street (Map), a large mature garden with a continuing display of bulbs, perennials, shrubs and magnificent massive beech trees. This will be a lovely start to our garden viewings, especially with all the spring greenery! Do come and join your fellow NHS Members. Friends, when you are viewing the […]
Date: Thursday, August 5th Time: 3-6 PM Address: 921 Indian Meal Line, Portugal Cove, St. Phillips (Map Link Below) https://goo.gl/maps/zjTcNLn3PupCfoeR9 Come visit Cathie and Robs’ garden - a spectacular very large garden with many areas, massive lily’s, perennial borders, stone walls, root cellar, greenhouse and large vegetable garden with native woodland enclosing it.
Date: Saturday, August 7th Time: 3-6 PM Address: 18 Cottonwood Cresent, Southlands (Map Link Below) https://goo.gl/maps/ERM1h7XeYqMnL83f8 Join us for a visit of Linda’s charming city garden with many borders featuring a wide variety of plants and shrubs including a climbing rose in bloom. Whimsical planters throughout the garden.
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 […]