Homegrown Harvest Workshop Series

Dear Food First community -

A reminder that the Homegrown Harvest Workshop Series held at the Burnaby Village Museum this summer is underway with free workshops on lots of subjects! Check out the full list of upcoming workshops on Museum’s webpage under the ‘programs’ tab or by downloading the Homegrown Harvest brochure (PDF).

The workshops were also recently mentioned in the Vancouver Sun (scroll to bottom of article) and twice in the Burnaby Now!!!

The next free workshop is:

Preserving Your Harvest
Sunday, August 23 / 1:30 - 3:30pm (Drop in / no registration needed)
Location: Meadow

Andrea Potter, Chef and Holistic Nutritionist demonstrates easy ways (e.g. drying) to preserve your harvest and make low cost, healthy and delicious snacks to enjoy.

Andrea hard at work at a previous Food First workshop on preserving food
Credit: Sofi Martinez

The next workshop (August 30) is on Winter Container Food Gardening.

This series was developed and is presented as a collaboration between Burnaby Food First and Burnaby Village Museum, and Food First volunteers will be on site! See you there!

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