The 2019 Good Food Summit: Growing Resilience

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Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Let's celebrate and strengthen our efforts towards creating sustainable, healthy, just food systems in the capital region.

Each year our Good Food Network gathers to celebrate and strengthen our efforts towards creating sustainable, healthy, just food systems in the Capital Region.

The Good Food Summit emphasizes cross sector collaboration, networking, skill building, and highlights the Good Food work happening in the Capital Region. This event draws educators, farmers, students, health care professionals, and more.

Good Food is: good for the planet, good for the provider, good for the health and well-being of all

The Good Food Network launched in 2015 as a way of connecting across sectors and silos to engage the whole food system. Strengthening diversity and collaboration are critical to achieving system change.

This years summit has a number of components:

(CLICK HERE FOR THE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM)

SAVOURY STORIES - NOVEMBER 19

An evening of tasty tales from local storytellers and Good Food advocates. Buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/savoury-stories-2019-good-food-summit-launch-tickets-64628874704

FIELD TRIP 1 - NOVEMBER 20

(1) S?ID?E? Restoration
Get your hands dirty with some restoration work. Join the W?SÁNE? led S?ID?E? Resiliency Project for a day of invasives removal.

FIELD TRIPS 2 and 3 - NOVEMBER 21
(2) Urban Food Tour: Food Policy in a Changing City

Building a City that is affordable, inclusive and diverse isn't easy. Development pressures and gentrification displace one food system with another. Join Aaren Topley, Co-chair of the Victoria Urban Food Table and Gillian Der ??? from the hua foundation on a guided tour of the Fernwood and North Park Neighbourhoods. Explore the complexities of expanding urban growing spaces, developing pressure, gentrification and a growing local food culture through the lens of city food policy.

(3) Farm Tour
Jump on the Community Action Bus!

Stop #1 - Little Mountain Farm in Saanich - Azja Jones Martin, a Young Agrarians Land Matcher, will present about the BC Land Matching Program and show you around the farm on a harvest day!

Stop #2 - Haliburton Community Organic Farm - Katie Underwood, farmer and board member at Haliburton Farm, will give us a tour of the multiple farm businesses and speak to the importance of community farms as a tool in creating a more resilient food future.

MAIN GATHERING - NOVEMBER 21 and 22

Our main conference day will be taking place at the Songhees Wellness Center. Join us for a day and a half of networking, workshops, speakers, and updates on the Good Food Strategy.

Thursday, Nov 21st: 1pm - 4:30pm
Friday, Nov 22nd: 8:30am - 5:30pm

Stay tuned for the preliminary program at: https://www.goodfoodnetwork.info/the-good-food-summit

HAPPY HOUR MIXER - NOVEMBER 21 PM

Join fellow Good Food advocates at Whistle Buoy Brewing. 5$ pints between 5:30pm and 6:30pm. Registration required, limited tickets available.

TICKET INFORMATION
Savoury Stories Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/savoury-stories-2019-good-food-summit-launch-tickets-64628874704

If the ticket price is a barrier for you or someone you know please let us know as there are a number of sponsored tickets free of charge. Please e-mail [email protected] or call 778-678-8450. Please contact us with any questions regarding venue/event accessibility.

We are also looking for volunteers. Please e-mail [email protected] if you are interested in signing up for a volunteer position.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

If the ticket price is a barrier for you or someone you know please let us know as there are a number of sponsored spots. Please e-mail [email protected] or call 778-678-8450. Please contact us with any questions regarding venue/event accessibility.

Childcare on Friday the 22nd will be available upon request. E-mail [email protected] to inquire.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CRFAIR promotes healthy and sustainable food systems. This considers our relationships with each other, and the land and waters of this region. We endeavour to honour the land and its treaties by strengthening our relationship and responsibilities to them. We live and work on unceded Coast Salish Territories*, specifically of the Lekwungen (Songhees and Esquimalt Nations) and W?SÁNE? (Tsartlip/W?JO?E?P, Tseycum/WSI?EM, Tsawout/S?ÁUTW, and Pauquachin/BO?E?EN Nations).

The presence of settlers (non-Indigenous peoples who live on these lands) is not neutral; it has had and continues to have devastating impacts on many aspects of life for Indigenous peoples. Many of our practices, including the seeds we plant, the ways we educate, and our methods of growing food came to these lands through the ongoing process of colonialism. Settler colonialism has suppressed local well-being by harming Lekwungen and W?SÁNE? food systems, whether they be land-based or of the sky and sea. We hold this understanding in our interactions and engagements with this land and its people.

There is important work being done by many nations and allies to ensure the continued thriving of these food systems, communities, and knowledge systems. Those of us who are settlers need to recognize that our knowledge and way of doing things may not be the priority as we work towards food security for everyone in this region.

* The term Coast Salish is used to encompass a number of Indigenous peoples, including Esquimalt, Hul’qumi’num, Klahoose, Lekwungen, MALAXEt, Musqueam, OStlq’emeylem, Pentlatch, Scia’new (Beecher Bay), Sliammon, Shishalh, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, Straits, Tsleil-Waututh, T’Sou-ke, W?SÁNE?, and Xwemalhkwu.