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!)
Foods of the Fundy Valley is excited to announce the opening of our newly relocated FFV Farmers’ Market at the Old Church, 2807 Main Street, Hillsborough, also home to Oliver’s German Bakery. Our new space is in a beautiful, old historic church that has now been transformed into a business centre. We will have much more indoor space for vendors and customers to enjoy in all kinds of weather.
Our new Market Committee is very energized and ready to create an amazing Farmers’ Market of vendors from both ends of Albert County, making this a 100% local market.
In addition to our existing vendors, we have lots of interested new vendors, tons of free parking, and Oliver will be back at the market, with the Bakery being open every Saturday.
With the increased indoor and outdoor space, we are still looking to welcome new vendors of local foods and crafts. Make it, bake it or grow it in Albert County, and come sell your wares at our market.
The market will run every Saturday from 8:00AM – 1:00PM, starting on Saturday, May 20th for the Victoria Day long weekend. The market will be open until the Thanksgiving weekend, with the last day being Saturday, October 7.
If you or someone you know is interested in being part of our market, please contact either of our market managers at:
[email protected]
or through our market Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/Hills
Guest Speaker Robyn McCallum, Apiculturist, will give a lecture on Spring and Summer Management, including Spring dwindling, monitoring and managing common pests and diseases, splitting hives, swarm management and other topics.
Beekeeper Don Porter will give a workshop on how to properly approach and open a hive, inspecting a hive, determining if the colony is queen right, and monitoring for varroa mites.
There is a limit of 40 participants, and preregistration is required. The fee for the workshop is non-refundable, and includes lunch and refreshments. $40 for Foods of the Fundy Valley members, $45 for non-members.
To register visit our website: https://foodsofthefun
You can choose to become a member of Foods of the Fundy Valley on the registration page. Once a member, you will receive discounts on all future workshops as well. The fee to join is $5 for the year.