Market Share July 2009

Gastown Farmers Market - August & September

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We are very excited to announce that we will be partnering with the Gastown Business Improvement Society to bring a farmers market to Gastown Sundays in August and September. The location will be the 200 Block of Carrall Street.

This market will feature chef demonstrations, sidewalk cafes, musicians and more! Many of the vendors you may know from our other 4 markets will join this location and some new vendors will pop up too offering fresh produce, meat, seafood, baking and preserves.

This is going to be a great spot for residents and visitors to gather. It's also a great start to a day in Gastown, recently designated with Heritage status. Why not grab some groceries and head out to explore a bit of history and the great local independent stores that fill the neighbourhood? Sounds like a perfect day.

The market will run weekly, Sundays - 11am - 3pm in the 200 block of Carrall Street.

For more information about Summer Spaces and the Gastown Farmers Market, visit www.vancouver.ca/summerspaces

Market News

Market T-shirts - our new market t-shirts are a hit! We're so happy you like our 2009 t-shirt design and our choice of made in BC cotton/bamboo shirts. Adult sizes are $20 each, kids and babies - $15. Members get discounts so don't forget to show your card when purchasing! A new batch of shirts will arrive at markets this weekend so stop by if we were out of stock when you last checked!

100 Mile Diet Food Shed Posters - looking for a gift for the locavore in your life? How about a Food Shed poster designed by the 100 Mile Diet folks? We've got them at our information booth (or at the Corner Store tent at Trout Lake) $10 each.

Food Security for the Faint of Heart Book - by popular demand these info-packed books are back! Get yours at the market for $18.00 tax included.

Grocery Delivery - shopped a little more than you can carry home? Stop by the Market Cargo tent (Kits and Main Street) for a free delivery of your groceries to your door by bike! Yes, we said FREE!
Delivery Areas: KITSILANO MAIN STREET

Free Parking areas at Main St Station - wondering where to park at the Main Street Station Market? Well, if you arrive after 5pm, park in the Cloverdale Paint/BC Housing lot at Station and Terminal. This lot was generously donated by BC Housing and Cloverdale Paint and except for a few reserved 24 hour spots, the whole lot can be used.

If you arrive before 5, there is meter parking on Station St an in the VIA rail lot for $1 an hour as well as an EasyPark lot at Terminal and Quebec (across from Vancity) that is $2 an hour. Of course, this market can't be beat for transit access so hopping on the bus or Skytrain is your best bet!

Trout Lake Market move - we're looking for a new site for our Trout Lake Farmers market for 2010 and beyond while the community centre is being rebuilt. Have an idea? Drop it in our suggestion box at the info tent. Stay tuned to future issues of Market Share as we keep you updated on the process.

Victoria Drive Road Closure and Parking - this month and next there is road and sewer work happening on Victoria Drive between 12th and Commercial Drive diversion. You can no longer turn south from 12th Avenue onto Victoria Drive and no parking exists on the street for visitors from 12th to 15th Avenue. Please use the north lot located near the dog off leash area at the north end of the park (accessible via 12th Avenue turning south at Lakewood to the alley along the park. Wherever you park, please park responsibly.

Vendor News

Beckmann Berry Farm
Beckmann Berry Farm late to start but will be arriving this week with their famous blueberries. Some of you might know already that Claus Beckmann sold his farm to a new family who have been working with him to maintain the high quality fruit that Beckmann has come to be famous for. We welcome the Ngyuen Family to the market community and hope you will too!

New Growers This Season
We're excited to welcome several new farmers this season - check out their offerings and welcome them to the market community! It is great to see new growers joining the ranks of the direct marketers - it means more land is kept productive and more food is produced locally.

Root Down Organics - ground crops and eggs from Pemberton
Ice Cap Organics - Pemberton-grown greens and root crops
Forrest Nelson Certified Organic Produce - ground crops from Cawston
Garden Back to Eden Organics - organic greenhouse and groundcrops
Kitsilano Farms - city-grown produce
Gelderman Farm - pork and blueberries
Twin Oaks Herb Farm - predatory plants like sundews and venus flytraps
My Urban Farm - sunflower sprouts grown at UBC Farm
Berry Tyme - off-season raspberries and strawberries and nursery items
Grow Your Own Mushrooms - mushrooms and mushroom kits

Classes and Events

Introduction to Permaculture
A two-day (12 hour) course that will present the ethics, principles, and strategies of Permaculture as a design methodology for creating self-sustaining human systems. Topics will include Permaculture ethics and principles, the importance of design, climate and landscape factors, site analysis, closed-loop system design, input/output analysis, functional analysis, forest gardening, and Permaculture in social and economic systems.

Two separate sessions will be offered, July 25th-26th, and August 22nd-23rd.
Pay-What-You-Feel, suggested donation $135 – $285.

As always, workshops are offered on a pay-what-you-feel basis and trades/barters are always welcome. Mutually supportive relationships create abundance for all.

www.farmhousefarm.wordpress.com

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Free Fall and Winter Veggie Workshop
The Richmond South Arm Gardening Project is offering a free community workshop on Fall & Winter Vegetables, facilitated by Sharon Hanna, HotBeds gardening consultant.

Learn what you can grow during the cold months of the year, where to find the best seed sources, etc. and all about starting seeds in pots, direct-sowing, plants that self-sow, fertilizing and crop protection over winter.

Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Place: South Arm Community Centre, 8880 Williams Rd, Richmond
Register: Call 604-718-8070

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TOURS with Spring Gillard
Exploring the Food System on the West Side: Summer Tour SeriesWestside Waste Tour
Wednesday, July 29th 6:30pm to 8:30 pm
In 2007, about 3.6 millon tonnes of solid waste was generated in Metro Vancouver. Current initiatives like recycling, backyard composting, municipal leaf and yard waste composting are diverting over 50% of those materials. Metro Van has adopted the Zero Waste Challenge and hopes to get to 70% diversion. So how are we doing waste-wise on the west side? Come poke around in back alleys, garbage cans and compost bins with us. We’ll look at how grocery stores and restaurants are managing their waste. Are any of them composting? If not, what are the barriers? We’ll see a unique mid-scale composting system designed a local co-op housing development. We’ll check out some backyard bins too; 46% of Vancouverites are already composting in their backyards – many of those west siders! Learn about food recovery programs and innovative initiatives designed to waste not. Find out what you can do in your own backyard to reduce edible and inedible food waste.

The Gauntlet: A Look at the Emergency Food System
Wednesday, August 26th 6:30pm to 8:30pm
As we walk in our west side neighbourhoods, many of us run the daily gauntlet of outstretched hands, from the homeless to the NGO’s. We look at the emergency food system and the charity model and ponder: to give or not to give? Talk to service providers and learn about food programs on the west side that cater to vulnerable populations, as well as other initiatives that help increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables for all.

Food system tours $35 each. Register at info@gardenheart.com
Presented by Garden Heart Productions (compostdiary.com)
and the Westside Food Security Collaborative (kitshouse.org/ link on community)

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Farm Folk City Folk Incredible Edible Tour - August 8
$edibletour\$

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FEAST OF FIELDS - UBC FARM
Prepare your taste buds! FarmFolk/CityFolk’s annual foodie fundraiser will be returning to UBC Farm, Vancouver’s only working farmland, on September 13th 2009. This extravagant event highlights the many connections between farmers and chefs from across British Columbia. Savour a wide variety of delectable appetizers prepared by the best BC chefs, and quench your thirst with the finest wines from across the province, all the while increasing your awareness of local food. BC’s restaurants, wineries, micro-breweries and food producers are getting ready to tempt your palate! Don’t miss out on Feast of Fields--Vancouver’s gourmet picnic festival.

September 13th 2009 1pm-5pm
UBC Farm 6182 South Campus Road, Vancouver, BC

INFO: feastoffields.com or 604.730.0450
Early Bird tickets available on-line June 1st at feastoffields.com for $75
Regular priced tickets available August 1st at feastoffields.com and at all Choices Markets for $85

Volunteer Opportunities

VANCOUVER FARMERS MARKETS
Bike Valet Attendants
You may or may not know that we have a Bike Valet service at the Kitsilano Farmers Market and we've just started offering the valet service at our Wednesday market at Main Street and Terminal Ave. We offer the service to encourage shoppers to bring their bikes to the market rather than driving. Attendants park bikes, give out valet tickets and keep watch over bikes while patrons shop. This is a fun activity which involves a some lifting and standing for extended periods but you get to meet other food and cycling enthusiasts. We have two shifts per market (10:00-12:00 and 12:00-2:00 at Kitsilano and 3:00-5:00 and 5:00-7:00 at Main St) and we like to have 2-3 people on each shift so that no one has to work too hard.

The Kitsilano Market is at West 10th Avenue and Larch Street in the parking lot of the Kitsilano Community Centre and happens every Sunday from now until October 25th. The Main St Market is in Thornton Park at Main Street and Terminal Avenue; across from the VIA Rail Station and near the Main St Skytrain Station. If you are interested please contact our Volunteer Co-ordinator at volunteer@eatlocal.org If you have friends and neighbours that ride bikes and go to the market you could mention to them that we need volunteers in order to make the service work. We need your help to make this service work for everyone!

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VANCOUVER FRUIT TREE PROJECT
Volunteer Picker
Volunteer pickers will receive weekly emails regarding the upcoming picks they are invited to participate in. They RSVP with the pick coordinator about any that they would like to attend. There is no minimum requirement for participation, it’s just whatever you can make it out to. At the picks the pickers will use picking poles and orchard ladders to work in a group to pick the tree, sorting the fruit into boxes for delivery to our community partners such as daycares, neighbourhood houses, food banks, and community centres. Volunteers can help with equipment set up and take down as well. Picks usually take between 1-3 hours and happen mostly on weekends and week-day evenings and sometimes during weekdays.

Volunteer Pick Leader
The Vancouver Fruit Tree Project is looking for pick leaders who can commit to leading one pick per week. The pick coordinator will try to schedule you for picks in your neighbourhood but you may be asked to lead a pick in another area of town. The pick coordinator will arrange a team of volunteers and will set up a community partner for the fruit to be donated to. The pick leaders are responsible for coordinating transportation to and from the pick, bringing and returning the equipment, delivering the fruit to the community partner, and of course, leading the volunteers in a fun and safe pick. Having your own transportation (with a roof rack for ladders) a benefit but is not required, as we can set you up with a car sharing membership through the VFTP.
Contact Liz Perkins @ 604-708-1987 or liz@vancouverfruittree.com


July 2009 The Newsletter of Vancouver's Farmers Marketswww.eatlocal.org
Tempting Heirloom Tomatoes at Garden Back to Eden Organic - Kitsilano At the Market This Month Produce: Chives, Fava Beans, Blueberries, Cherries, Apricots, Fresh Herbs, Garlic, Green Onions, White Onions, Carrots, Potatoes, Salad Greens, Spinach, Radishes, Mushrooms, Tomatoes (GH), Strawberries, Raspberries, Peppers, Cucumbers, Zucchini, Shallots, Kale, Beets, Broccoli, Green and Yellow Beans Protein and Dairy: Eggs, Goat and Cow's Milk Cheese, Yogurt, Beef, Chicken, Pork, Sablefish, Salmon, Cod, Side Stripe Shrimp, Tuna, Octopus Prepared Foods: Dried Fruit, Fruit Juice, Baked Goods, Honey, Humous, Chutney, Pesto, Hazelnuts, Walnuts, Preserves, Chocolates, Olives, Granola, Roasted Coffee, Candy, Bread, Salsa, Seasonings, Maple Syrup, Tea, Brewed Coffee Crafts: cards, prints, jewellery, soap, bodycare, wood working, textiles, knitting, hats, clothing Other: bedding plants, hanging baskets You'll find a great guide to the seasonal availability of BC products provided by Get Local . Print your copy own copy and post it on your fridge for quick reference. Don't Miss Our Monthly Raffles! Our famous raffles continue! Look for the basket of goodies at the market info tent and enter to win! Each market holds one raffle per month. Members get 2 free tickets at each raffle. West End - July 18 Trout Lake - July 25 Main Street - August 5 Kitsilano - August 9 Tickets are $1 each of 7 for $5 - look for the prize and signs around the market to direct you to the tickets! Thanks for your support! Summer Market Dates Here are this year's dates: East Vancouver - Saturdays, 9am - 2pm Every week until October 10 West End - Saturdays, 9am - 2pm Every week until October 24 Kitsilano - Sundays, 10am - 2pm Every week until October 25 Main St. Station - Wednesdays, 3pm - 7pm Every week until October 21 For more details, visit our website at http://www.eatlocal.org/markets.html My Markets News Email Update Find out who'll be at the market so you can plan your shopping trip - visit www.mymarketsnews.com and choose the markets you'd like to receive updates for. All of our Vancouver Farmers Markets are listed. Seasonal Recipe - Choco Zucchini Cake CHOCO ZUCCHINI CAKE Submitted by Wing-Siu Wong, Long-time Market Shopper Preheat oven to 325C. Butter or oil a large bundt cake pan or two 8" loaf pans, and dust with flour evenly. In one big mixing bowl mix (all the dry ingredients) : 2C flour 1/3 C cocoa powder 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 C sugar In a 4 Cup measuring Cup (or another bowl) mix (all the wet ingredients) : 3 medium free range eggs 3/4 C apple sauce 1/4 C oil 1 tsp vanilla 2C zucchini (grated) 1/2 C chocolate chips Fold the wet into the dry with a spatula, pour into the cake pan(s). Bake @325C for 45-50 minutes for bundt pan or 40 - 45 minutes for loaf pans. Check for doneness with a skewer - should come out clean. Cool on cooling rack. When half cooled, invert cake onto cooling rack. When totally cool sprinkle cake with icing sugar if desired for effect before cutting. Happy Baking! SAVE THE DATE! ANNUAL FUNDRAISER On Thursday October 1st the Vancouver Farmers Markets will be hosting their 1st annual fundraising event. Held at Performance Works on Granville Island, the evening promises to be filled with fabulous local food from our farmers, regional beer & wine, a silent auction, and your chance to get inspired about Vancouver's local food movement. Tickets will be available soon at all Farmers Markets and some local retailers. Stay tuned for more info as the Summer progresses! If you'd like to be involved in the event as a Sponsor or would like more information about the event please email Jackie at jackie@eatlocal.org Travel Far with Eat Local! Send us a photo of you and your market bag in a far-away place and we'll put it in the next issue of Market Share. This is an ongoing call for photos so send them in whenever you can. Photos can be sent to Jen in the market office either by mail or email (contact info below). Be sure to include where the photo was taken and your full name and address so we can thank you properly! Now get snapping! Newsletter Archives Missed the last issue of Market Share? Want to pull up that great recipe you saw back in August 08? We've got our newsletter archives online - going back about a year. Your Local Farmers Market Society Your Local Farmers Market Society is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. They are an active board, with many projects on the go. They are: Gigi Egan Andrew Hale Kevin Klippenstein Mel Lehan Bob Ransford Amy Robertson Joni Sherman Deb Taschuk Claire Williams You can look forward to learning more about the board and their activities in upcoming issues of Market Share. Follow us on Twitter Get up to the minute updates and behind the scenes info from Market staffers. Our Twitter Name: VanMarkets	Gastown Farmers Market - August & September We are very excited to announce that we will be partnering with the Gastown Business Improvement Society to bring a farmers market to Gastown Sundays in August and September. The location will be the 200 Block of Carrall Street. This market will feature chef demonstrations, sidewalk cafes, musicians and more! Many of the vendors you may know from our other 4 markets will join this location and some new vendors will pop up too offering fresh produce, meat, seafood, baking and preserves. This is going to be a great spot for residents and visitors to gather. It's also a great start to a day in Gastown, recently designated with Heritage status. Why not grab some groceries and head out to explore a bit of history and the great local independent stores that fill the neighbourhood? Sounds like a perfect day. The market will run weekly, Sundays - 11am - 3pm in the 200 block of Carrall Street. For more information about Summer Spaces and the Gastown Farmers Market, visit www.vancouver.ca/summerspaces Market News Market T-shirts - our new market t-shirts are a hit! We're so happy you like our 2009 t-shirt design and our choice of made in BC cotton/bamboo shirts. Adult sizes are $20 each, kids and babies - $15. Members get discounts so don't forget to show your card when purchasing! A new batch of shirts will arrive at markets this weekend so stop by if we were out of stock when you last checked! 100 Mile Diet Food Shed Posters - looking for a gift for the locavore in your life? How about a Food Shed poster designed by the 100 Mile Diet folks? We've got them at our information booth (or at the Corner Store tent at Trout Lake) $10 each. Food Security for the Faint of Heart Book - by popular demand these info-packed books are back! Get yours at the market for $18.00 tax included. Grocery Delivery - shopped a little more than you can carry home? Stop by the Market Cargo tent (Kits and Main Street) for a free delivery of your groceries to your door by bike! Yes, we said FREE! Delivery Areas: KITSILANO MAIN STREET Free Parking areas at Main St Station - wondering where to park at the Main Street Station Market? Well, if you arrive after 5pm, park in the Cloverdale Paint/BC Housing lot at Station and Terminal. This lot was generously donated by BC Housing and Cloverdale Paint and except for a few reserved 24 hour spots, the whole lot can be used. If you arrive before 5, there is meter parking on Station St an in the VIA rail lot for $1 an hour as well as an EasyPark lot at Terminal and Quebec (across from Vancity) that is $2 an hour. Of course, this market can't be beat for transit access so hopping on the bus or Skytrain is your best bet! Trout Lake Market move - we're looking for a new site for our Trout Lake Farmers market for 2010 and beyond while the community centre is being rebuilt. Have an idea? Drop it in our suggestion box at the info tent. Stay tuned to future issues of Market Share as we keep you updated on the process. Victoria Drive Road Closure and Parking - this month and next there is road and sewer work happening on Victoria Drive between 12th and Commercial Drive diversion. You can no longer turn south from 12th Avenue onto Victoria Drive and no parking exists on the street for visitors from 12th to 15th Avenue. Please use the north lot located near the dog off leash area at the north end of the park (accessible via 12th Avenue turning south at Lakewood to the alley along the park. Wherever you park, please park responsibly. Vendor News Beckmann Berry Farm Beckmann Berry Farm late to start but will be arriving this week with their famous blueberries. Some of you might know already that Claus Beckmann sold his farm to a new family who have been working with him to maintain the high quality fruit that Beckmann has come to be famous for. We welcome the Ngyuen Family to the market community and hope you will too! New Growers This Season We're excited to welcome several new farmers this season - check out their offerings and welcome them to the market community! It is great to see new growers joining the ranks of the direct marketers - it means more land is kept productive and more food is produced locally. Root Down Organics - ground crops and eggs from Pemberton Ice Cap Organics - Pemberton-grown greens and root crops Forrest Nelson Certified Organic Produce - ground crops from Cawston Garden Back to Eden Organics - organic greenhouse and groundcrops Kitsilano Farms - city-grown produce Gelderman Farm - pork and blueberries Twin Oaks Herb Farm - predatory plants like sundews and venus flytraps My Urban Farm - sunflower sprouts grown at UBC Farm Berry Tyme - off-season raspberries and strawberries and nursery items Grow Your Own Mushrooms - mushrooms and mushroom kits Classes and Events Introduction to Permaculture A two-day (12 hour) course that will present the ethics, principles, and strategies of Permaculture as a design methodology for creating self-sustaining human systems. Topics will include Permaculture ethics and principles, the importance of design, climate and landscape factors, site analysis, closed-loop system design, input/output analysis, functional analysis, forest gardening, and Permaculture in social and economic systems. Two separate sessions will be offered, July 25th-26th, and August 22nd-23rd. Pay-What-You-Feel, suggested donation $135 – $285. As always, workshops are offered on a pay-what-you-feel basis and trades/barters are always welcome. Mutually supportive relationships create abundance for all. www.farmhousefarm.wordpress.com ---------------------------------------------- Free Fall and Winter Veggie Workshop The Richmond South Arm Gardening Project is offering a free community workshop on Fall & Winter Vegetables, facilitated by Sharon Hanna, HotBeds gardening consultant. Learn what you can grow during the cold months of the year, where to find the best seed sources, etc. and all about starting seeds in pots, direct-sowing, plants that self-sow, fertilizing and crop protection over winter. Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Place: South Arm Community Centre, 8880 Williams Rd, Richmond Register: Call 604-718-8070 ---------------------------------------------- TOURS with Spring Gillard Exploring the Food System on the West Side: Summer Tour SeriesWestside Waste Tour Wednesday, July 29th 6:30pm to 8:30 pm In 2007, about 3.6 millon tonnes of solid waste was generated in Metro Vancouver. Current initiatives like recycling, backyard composting, municipal leaf and yard waste composting are diverting over 50% of those materials. Metro Van has adopted the Zero Waste Challenge and hopes to get to 70% diversion. So how are we doing waste-wise on the west side? Come poke around in back alleys, garbage cans and compost bins with us. We’ll look at how grocery stores and restaurants are managing their waste. Are any of them composting? If not, what are the barriers? We’ll see a unique mid-scale composting system designed a local co-op housing development. We’ll check out some backyard bins too; 46% of Vancouverites are already composting in their backyards – many of those west siders! Learn about food recovery programs and innovative initiatives designed to waste not. Find out what you can do in your own backyard to reduce edible and inedible food waste. The Gauntlet: A Look at the Emergency Food System Wednesday, August 26th 6:30pm to 8:30pm As we walk in our west side neighbourhoods, many of us run the daily gauntlet of outstretched hands, from the homeless to the NGO’s. We look at the emergency food system and the charity model and ponder: to give or not to give? Talk to service providers and learn about food programs on the west side that cater to vulnerable populations, as well as other initiatives that help increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables for all. Food system tours $35 each. Register at info@gardenheart.com Presented by Garden Heart Productions (compostdiary.com) and the Westside Food Security Collaborative (kitshouse.org/ link on community) ---------------------------------------------- Farm Folk City Folk Incredible Edible Tour - August 8 $edibletour\$ ---------------------------------------------- FEAST OF FIELDS - UBC FARM Prepare your taste buds! FarmFolk/CityFolk’s annual foodie fundraiser will be returning to UBC Farm, Vancouver’s only working farmland, on September 13th 2009. This extravagant event highlights the many connections between farmers and chefs from across British Columbia. Savour a wide variety of delectable appetizers prepared by the best BC chefs, and quench your thirst with the finest wines from across the province, all the while increasing your awareness of local food. BC’s restaurants, wineries, micro-breweries and food producers are getting ready to tempt your palate! Don’t miss out on Feast of Fields--Vancouver’s gourmet picnic festival. September 13th 2009 1pm-5pm UBC Farm 6182 South Campus Road, Vancouver, BC INFO: feastoffields.com or 604.730.0450 Early Bird tickets available on-line June 1st at feastoffields.com for $75 Regular priced tickets available August 1st at feastoffields.com and at all Choices Markets for $85 Volunteer Opportunities VANCOUVER FARMERS MARKETS Bike Valet Attendants You may or may not know that we have a Bike Valet service at the Kitsilano Farmers Market and we've just started offering the valet service at our Wednesday market at Main Street and Terminal Ave. We offer the service to encourage shoppers to bring their bikes to the market rather than driving. Attendants park bikes, give out valet tickets and keep watch over bikes while patrons shop. This is a fun activity which involves a some lifting and standing for extended periods but you get to meet other food and cycling enthusiasts. We have two shifts per market (10:00-12:00 and 12:00-2:00 at Kitsilano and 3:00-5:00 and 5:00-7:00 at Main St) and we like to have 2-3 people on each shift so that no one has to work too hard. The Kitsilano Market is at West 10th Avenue and Larch Street in the parking lot of the Kitsilano Community Centre and happens every Sunday from now until October 25th. The Main St Market is in Thornton Park at Main Street and Terminal Avenue; across from the VIA Rail Station and near the Main St Skytrain Station. If you are interested please contact our Volunteer Co-ordinator at volunteer@eatlocal.org If you have friends and neighbours that ride bikes and go to the market you could mention to them that we need volunteers in order to make the service work. We need your help to make this service work for everyone! ---------------------------------------------- VANCOUVER FRUIT TREE PROJECT Volunteer Picker Volunteer pickers will receive weekly emails regarding the upcoming picks they are invited to participate in. They RSVP with the pick coordinator about any that they would like to attend. There is no minimum requirement for participation, it’s just whatever you can make it out to. At the picks the pickers will use picking poles and orchard ladders to work in a group to pick the tree, sorting the fruit into boxes for delivery to our community partners such as daycares, neighbourhood houses, food banks, and community centres. Volunteers can help with equipment set up and take down as well. Picks usually take between 1-3 hours and happen mostly on weekends and week-day evenings and sometimes during weekdays. Volunteer Pick Leader The Vancouver Fruit Tree Project is looking for pick leaders who can commit to leading one pick per week. The pick coordinator will try to schedule you for picks in your neighbourhood but you may be asked to lead a pick in another area of town. The pick coordinator will arrange a team of volunteers and will set up a community partner for the fruit to be donated to. The pick leaders are responsible for coordinating transportation to and from the pick, bringing and returning the equipment, delivering the fruit to the community partner, and of course, leading the volunteers in a fun and safe pick. Having your own transportation (with a roof rack for ladders) a benefit but is not required, as we can set you up with a car sharing membership through the VFTP. Contact Liz Perkins @ 604-708-1987 or liz@vancouverfruittree.com
Banner photo - raspberries at Paul's Produce, West End Market Vancouver Farmers Markets 1163 Commercial Dr, #2, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X3 Tel. 604-879-FARM (3276) i nfo@eatlocal.org Executive Director, Tara McDonald tara@eatlocal.org Roberta LaQuaglia, Operations Manager roberta@eatlocal.org Jen Pleadwell, Office Manager jen@eatlocal.org Alita Parisotto, Operations Assistant alita@eatlocal.org

Tempting Heirloom Tomatoes at Garden Back to Eden Organic - Kitsilano