To help us plan for the coming year’s activities, we invite you to attend our Open Meeting on Saturday, January 17 at the Curryville Community Center, 786 Albert Mines Rd., in Curryville.
We have a full and entertaining agenda, starting at 3:00PM with a movie, “GMO – OMG,” a thought-provoking film by Jeremy Seifert on GMOs in relationship to his 3 young children and the world around him.
Our open meeting follows at 5:00, including a potluck supper. Bring a dish to share. After the meeting, there will be a Crokinole tournament. Crokinole is a board game that was developed in rural Canada in the 1860s. It is a test of dexterity, with elements of shuffleboard and curling on a tabletop scale. For rules and information, click here. Limber up those fingers, and come join in the fun!
Foods of the Fundy Valley will be hosting their 3rd bee keeping workshop led by Fletcher and Mary Colpitts. The focus of this workshop will be learning to work with open hives and will be hosted May 29th at the Albert County Museum. The cost of the event will be $40/participant and lunch will be provided. Registration for this workshop will open April 25th. Stay posted on how to sign up!
Lisa Brown of Farmer Brown’s Greenhouse is going to lead us in an afternoon hands-on workshop where we will learn about seed starting and how to plant for an early gardening season. Because we will be preparing materials for people to get their hands dirty with, we need to know how man
y will be coming. To register please email Elizabeth at foodsofthefundyvalley@gmai
Note: This Workshop is now full! 🙂
By popular demand, Lisa Brown of Farmer Brown’s Greenhouse will be leading a second Seed Starting and Early Gardening Workshop on April 10th! This will be an afternoon, fun-filled, hands-on workshop where we will learn about seed starting and how to plant for an early gardening season. Because we will be preparing materials for people to get their hands dirty with, we need to know how many will be coming. To register please email Elizabeth at foodsofthefundyvalley@gmai
Fletcher and Mary Colpitts return to the Albert County Museum on May 29 to share their expertise on beekeeping. Fletcher is a third generation beekeeper, and maintains 100 hives of his own. He works for the Department of Agriculture as the Chief Apiary Inspector. Fletcher and his wife Mary will be teaching the basics of beekeeping and giving hands-on demonstrations of how to operate a honey bee colony. They will focus on such topics as the hives, equipment, hive health and safety around bees.
There is a limit of 40 participants, and preregistration is required. The fee for the workshop is $40, non-refundable, and includes lunch and refreshments.
You may register online by clicking the Add to Cart button below. You will be directed to a PayPal page, where you can specify the number of tickets desired. You don’t need a PayPal account – just click the “Don’t have a PayPal Account” link, and enter your credit card information. Alternatively, you may register by contacting Elizabeth at [email protected] or by phone at 875-5841.
Note: This Workshop is now full! ?
At this workshop Alyson will discuss ways to work with Mother Nature to design a healthy and natural garden, including beneficial insects, companion planting, and other weed management tools. She will cover common challenges faced by organic gardeners and what to do about them, including preventing problems before they happen, using a variety of weed management tools and more.
Alyson is not from a farm but worked on farms in Canada and overseas, eventually joining a group of people in Abbotsford, BC, to form a co-op and buy and run an organic vegetable farm. She ran her own business there selling salad greens and eggs for almost 10 years before meeting Will and moving to NB to run their own farm in McKees Mills, Windy Hill Farm. Now Alyson and Will run a 100 member CSA, sell their vegetables at a farmer’s market and also raise goats for meat and milk. Alyson teaches an organic gardening course in Moncton each spring to anyone interested in learning how to get started in organic vegetable growing.
The workshop will start with a short presentation indoors at the Forest Dale Nursing Home followed by some hands-on time in the community garden. There will be light refreshments. This workshop will be free/pay what you can, with a suggested donation of 10$. To register, please send the name, phone number and email address of each participant registering to Elizabeth at [email protected] or you can contact her at 875-5841.
This Sunday, Carole Coleman from Tansy Lane Herb Farm will be teaching us how to make jams and jellies. With the abundance of berries all around us it’s a perfect time to come and learn the tricks of the trade from Carole who will share with us recipes, tips, and more. Together we will make both a jam and a jelly and participants will get to sample and take home a jar of each, along with the knowledge on how to make their own! It’s sure to be a delicious and sweet time learning together.
Foods of the Fundy Valley’s invites you to their Annual General Meeting, Fair & Soup Bar
Please join us on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the Curryville Outreach Centre on Albert Mines Rd, in Curryville, for our AGM, featuring our famous Soup Bar. This year, we are also featuring a “Celebrate Local” fair consisting of display tables on the upstairs level. Producers of local foods and crafts are invited to reserve a table to display their wares and promote their business. Tables will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. For more details, or to reserve a table, email foodsofthefundyvalley@gmail.
5:00 – 7:00PM – Fair and Soup Bar
7:00PM – Annual General Meeting
Attendance is free for current FFV members, $5 for non-members.
(Hint: You can join FFV or renew your membership for $5 per year!)