• Dive!: the movie

    Dive!: the movie

    Dive! is an eye-opening, entertaining, inspirational, and smart film that has won 21 awards in festivals worldwide. Dive! follows Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles' supermarkets, salvaging food, and questioning contemporary systems of making, transporting, and distributing ...

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  • Kingston supports Put Food in the Budget

    Kingston supports Put Food in the Budget

    The City of Kingston has officially declared support for the Put Food in the Budget campaign! This campaign, sponsored by our friends at The Stop Community Food Centre, calls for the following two actions on the part of the Ontario government to address chronic hunger faced by thousands in our ...

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Jan182012

Dive!: the movie

By | January 18, 2012 | Posted in events | Comments off

Dive! is an eye-opening, entertaining, inspirational, and smart film that has won 21 awards in festivals worldwide. Dive! follows Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles’ supermarkets, salvaging food, and questioning contemporary systems of making, transporting, and distributing food.

Come check out the film and following discussion on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:00pm in Mackintosh-Corry Hall D216 (on the main floor). Donations are appreciated, and will be contributed to reclamation of healthy and organic food to meal programs across Kingston.

Made possible through Loving Spoonful and Queen’s Project on International Development.

 

Jan092012

Kingston supports Put Food in the Budget

By | January 9, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments off

The City of Kingston has officially declared support for the Put Food in the Budget campaign! This campaign, sponsored by our friends at The Stop Community Food Centre, calls for the following two actions on the part of the Ontario government to address chronic hunger faced by thousands in our province:

1. An immediate increase of $100 per month Healthy Food Supplement for every adult receiving social assistance as a first step towards addressing the inadequacy of current social assistance benefits

2. A fair and transparent way of setting social assistance rates so that people can meet their basic needs and lead a healthy and dignified life

Learn more about the campaign here, and take a few moments to complete the Do the Math survey while you’re there – it is truly enlightening.

Jan052012

Hiring: Community Kitchen Coordinator

By | January 5, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments off

Loving Spoonful Community Kitchen Coordinator

Job Contract: 46 weeks starting February 6, 2012

Wage: $20/hour, 20 hours per week

Application Deadline: January 20, 2012 4pm

 

 

We are excited to be expanding our Community Kitchen programming in 2012, and are looking for a highly motivated person to join our staff in this role. Please see full details on the position and how to apply here.

Many thanks to the United Way/City of Kingston Community Investment Fund for making this position possible.

Dec152011

A New Year for Loving Spoonful

By | December 15, 2011 | Posted in employment, news | Comments off

As 2011 closes, we have many changes happening here at Loving Spoonful. Susan Belyea, our founding director and the driving force behind many of our projects to date (pictured left), has completed four years of fantastic work for Loving Spoonful, and is headed to Cuba and Guatemala to travel and engage in food security activities. She anticipates returning to Loving Spoonful as a member of our Board of Directors, and we know she will bring her passion and knowledge to this new role.

We are also saying farewell to Kate Archibald Cross, who coordinated our 2011 Grow a Row campaign and piloted our Community Kitchen Project. Under Kate’s leadership we achieved our most successful year of donations ever – a whopping 7,000 lbs of fresh, local produce delivered to Kingston meal providers where it nourished many community members in need.

Holly Platz will be taking over the role of Executive Director from Susan. She will also continue acting as the Community Gardens Network Coordinator, and will still oversee volunteers for all of our projects. We plan on rolling out our Community Kitchen Program in earnest in 2012, and anticipate hiring a Community Kitchen Coordinator in January. Details on this position will be sent out to the list serv once they have been confirmed, and will also be posted right here on our website.

Happy Holidays!

Dec012011

Winter Solstice Reflection

By | December 1, 2011 | Posted in events | Comments off

Join the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary in celebrating the Winter Solstice with song, ritual, and food at 7pm on Wednesday December 21st at the “Barn” (1200 Princess St., behind Providence Motherhouse). There is no cost to the event, but donations are always welcome and help to support the work of the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary.

 

Nov202011

Volunteer Orientation and Silkscreening Social

By | November 20, 2011 | Posted in events, volunteer | Comments off

 

We are holding a Volunteer Orientation and Silkscreening Social on Wednesday, November 30th from 7-9pm. It will be located in Rm. 217 of the Memorial Centre, 303 York Street. Everyone is welcome to attend, and new volunteers or people interested in volunteering are especially encouraged to come learn about our many projects and how you can get involved. You will also have the chance to silkscreen clothing items with our Loving Spoonful logo! Bring along a t-shirt, sweatshirt and/or cloth shopping bag to be printed. We will also have some aprons on hand for people to print and take home with them. This will be a fun night to get to know the Loving Spoonful team and learn a new skill!

 

Oct122011

Oak Street Garden Community Harvest Party

By | October 12, 2011 | Posted in events, Gardens, Grow a Row, volunteer | Comments off

Loving Spoonful, Grow a Row, and the Acorn Garden would like to invite you to celebrate the end of another fantastic growing season with us at the Oak St. Community Garden’s Fall Clean Up Party on Sunday, October 16th from 3-6 p.m. Regular volunteers, curious community members and old friends and family are all welcome to join!

The Acorn Garden is grown for the sole purpose of donating its harvest to Grow a Row, and we are excited to announce that this year we have already collected 6500 lbs of fresh produce, blowing away our original goal of 5000 lbs!

We have a bunch of fun activities planned throughout the afternoon! We will be putting the garden plots to bed for the winter, as well as planting some garlic (which we harvested from our very own garden this year!) There will also be a craft table for the kids, so come out and enjoy the fun!

Don’t miss out on our other activities and workshops we have planned!
3pm: Composting Workshop
4pm: A backyard Hen demonstration
5pm: Time to share a meal!

All are welcome to join us and bring a dish to share, dishes to eat on/with, and your favourite gardening gloves, tools and accesories :-) We hope you can join us in celebrating a phenomenal season here at the garden!

Hope to see you all there!!

Sep292011

Grow a Row is Still Accepting Donations!

By | September 29, 2011 | Posted in Grow a Row | Comments off

Grow a Row for Kingston is still accepting donations! You can bring donations to our booth at the downtown market on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 – 4:30pm, or on Saturdays from 11:00 – 4:30pm until October 15th.
If you have donations after October 15th, or cannot make it to the market booth at those times, please contact us as 613 546-4291 ext. 1871 and we’ll arrange another plan.
Thanks to everyone who has donated to Grow a Row and is making this summer a success!

Sep202011

A big thanks to participating Summer Lovin’ restaurants and patrons!

By | September 20, 2011 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments off

Loving Spoonful wishes to extend our gratitude to Chez Piggy, Chien Noir, Olivea and Pan Chancho – and diners like you – for supporting our inaugural Summer Lovin’ campaign. The funds raised will go to furthering Loving Spoonful’s food security work in our community, making sure that more people have access to fresh healthy food.

Look out for a similar winter promotional event coming your way in February or March 2012. In the meantime we hope you will continue to visit Kingston’s outstanding downtown restaurants and farmers markets in support of a vibrant local food system.

Sep152011

Community Gardens Bicycle Tour

By | September 15, 2011 | Posted in events, Gardens | Comments off

Join the Kingston Community Gardens Network and Cycle Kingston on Saturday, September 17th for a bicycle tour of Kingston’s community gardens and other gardens of interest!

The tour will depart from the Calvin Park Library at 1pm and end at the Oak St. Garden at 4pm where free refreshments will be served. Cyclists of all ages and abilities are welcome.

For more information and a link to the tour route map please look under the ‘Upcoming Events’ tab in the top left corner and click on ‘Community Gardens Bicycle Tour.’

Check out the Kingston Community Gardens Network at http://kingstoncommunitygardens.ca

Questions? Email gardens@lovingspoonful.org