A 10 week cooking and skill building program for pregnant women and parents of young.
This a great local market community. Handmade, homegrown or homemade items in a wide variety of your favourite goodies is what you will find here. Join us in growing our market; vendors, customers, volunteers, ideas and fun are always welcome!
The Cowichan Incubator Seed Farm is the first seed training farm to be launched in Canada. Based on the successful ‘Incubator Farm’ model that has been implemented in numerous places to train new farmers, the Cowichan Incubator Seed Farm (CISF) will be the first to focus specifically on training new seed farmers.
Cowichan Green Community offers a variety of cooking classes. Programs are a constant so call (250)748-8506 or email info@cowichangreencommunity.org for details on the cooking classes we are running today!
FoodFit, a program developed by Community Food Centres Canada, is now being offered through Cowichan Green Community Foundation to bring low-income community members together to set goals, learn skills, and make measurable changes in overall health and fitness. The goal of the FoodFit program is to support community members to become better nourished, more active, and less socially isolated.
This project aims to establish a food recovery system to reclaim unwanted and destined for the landfill food and into a variety of other more sustainable streams including re-distribution, processing, compost and animal feed.
Recover - Share - Nourish
Cowichan Green Community often offer food preservation workshops when the season is right! Contact us at info@cowichangreencommunity.org or by phone 250-748-8506 to be put on the contact list for when we offer a program or receive a large donation of produce!
Cowichan Green Community offers seasonal food preservation workshops using locally gleaned and sourced produce from CGC's farms, programs, and donations. These workshops are hosted in our commercial kitchen located in our office building, downtown Duncan, making it accessible and inclusive to many community members to learn how to can and preserve the harvest.
In 2007 Ocean Crest Community Church planted a ministry in Port Hardy. Over the course of these ten years, The Salvation Army Lighthouse Resource Centre has become a beacon of light and a symbol of hope for many people in the community. In and through each program facilitated at the center, central components of our faith have been incorporated, including prayer and scripture through devotions and Bible study.
About the Food Atlas
The Food Atlas is a comprehensive catalogue of food security resources across the entire Vancouver Island Health Authority service area.