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Hiring a Grow a Row Coordinator

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:49:56 +0000

Loving Spoonful is pleased to announce that we have received funding from the KFL&A United Way to hire a Grow a Row Coordinator.

Application deadline: Friday August 13th, 2010, 4pm – click here for details.

Part time Contract position from September 2010 – November 2010. 15 hours per week, $16/hour. Details on job description and how to apply are in attached document above. Interviews will take place Thursday August 19th and Friday August 20th. For more information contact Susan at susan[at]lovingspoonful[dot]org

Summer students!

Sat, 29 May 2010 23:27:08 +0000

Loving Spoonful is pleased to announce Sarah Foohey, Mariann Koves, Usman Mushtaq and Dawne Olafson as our summer students! You will be able to meet Sarah and Dawne at the Acorn Garden plot at the Tuesday workbees (details to be announced) and Usman and Mariann at the Grow a Row booth located at the Downtown Public Market. Welcome!

Thank you Anglin Bay Pottery and Wellington Acupuncture and Massage

Thu, 06 May 2010 12:11:41 +0000

On Tuesday May 4th, Wellington Acupuncture and Massage and Anglin Bay Pottery held a fundraiser for Loving Spoonful. Wellington Acupuncture and Massage host an annual fundraiser for a local community group and selected Loving Spoonful this year! They also partnered this year with Anglin Bay Pottery. The picture you see here is from Wednesday May 5th’s Whig Standard. To read more click here. We at Loving Spoonful offer our biggest thanks to Wellington Acupuncture and Massage, and Anglin Bay Pottery! We appreciate your support.

Grow a Row website

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:21:56 +0000

Check out our new Grow a Row site: http://growarow.lovingspoonful.org. Check back frequently for updates on how to get involved in this year’s campaign! Our goal is to raise 4000 lbs of locally grown food for distribution to meal programs, agencies and the food bank. Help us reach it!

Hiring 2 Queen’s Work Study students

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:07:30 +0000

If you are a Queen’s student that qualifies for the Queen’s Work Study program (more info here – http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/awards/student/student-workprogram.html) and are a full time student in the Spring/Summer term, contact us!

We are hiring 2 work study student to work on the Grow a Row campaign. Each position will be roughly 90 hours of work over the course of the summer at a rate of $11/hour. Work will involve volunteer coordination, promotional work, gardening and more. Some work hours will be on evenings and weekends.

To view the job posting online visit: https://careers.sso.queensu.ca/home.htm and login with your student id. Select Job Postings – Workstudy/SWEP. Look for: (Job ID: 31102) Grow a Row Assistant.

Submit your resume, cover letter and contact info for 2 references to hiring[at]lovingspoonful[dot]org by Friday April 30th at 4pm.

Contact sayyida[at]lovingspoonful[dot]org for more information or click here for the job description.

General Volunteer Meeting – April 7th

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:34:21 +0000

8PM at 99 York St

We will be hosting a volunteer meeting for new volunteers to learn about how to get involved in Loving Spoonful and to find out what projects we have on the go. We will be recruiting folks to join the Grow a Row committee and Special Events/Fundraising Committee. We hope to see you there!

City of Kingston Community Gardens Policy

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:30:11 +0000

Have your say: Comment on the City of Kingston’s draft Community Garden Policy
There are several aspects to this document that are really positive, including:
1. that the city is taking community gardens seriously and proposing to support their development and operations in a number of ways
2. that they propose appointing a Community Gardens Coordinator to help facilitate the development and operations of community gardens
3. that they are proposing to set aside a small fund to allocate to Community gardens for set up and improvements Some of us are concerned, however, that a number of the points outlined in the document may actually inhibit our ability to develop and run community gardens with ease in this city.

If you are interested in and supportive of the growth of community gardens in our city, please take a few minutes to review the draft policy: (http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/recreation/parks/CommunityGardensPolicy_Draft.pdf ) and submit your comments to Liz Cartwright lcartwright@cityofkingston.ca by Thursday January 14th.

Have your say

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:11:28 +0000

Here’s a chance to have input into Kingston’s Sustainability Plan. We feel that Local Food and Food Justice are important components of a Sustainable Kingston.

Add your comments through this website: http://www.sustainablekingston.ca/ All comments must be submitted by Friday December 18th. Don’t miss your opportunity to have your say.

Support the Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:08:31 +0000

Please vote today to support the contest to win $50,000 for a meals program and kitchen at the Wally Elmer Community Centre!

Please vote each day until Nov 15. It takes less than a minute to vote.
http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf1296

(if you haven’t voted before, you must register first with an email address and then click on the link above to go directly to the Wally Elmer project)

Thanks for your support!

Margaret Atwood and Local Food in Kingston

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:05:39 +0000

Margaret Atwood just updated her tour blog: http://marg09.wordpress.com/ and here is what she had to say about her visit to Kingston and more specifically, her discussions with Susan. Click on the link to her blog for the full posting, including pictures!

“Wayne drove us out to one of the site of the Community Harvest Working Group’s gardens, where Susan Bellyea – co-ordinator of Loving Spoonful (http://www.opirgkingston.org/lovingspoonful) (‘delivering fresh surplus food to people in need”) — walked us around the public allotments and communal vegetable gardens. Community Harvest runs local food markets, teaches organic gardening and cooking, and runs a gleaning program whereby families in need can go into fields after harvest and pick up any extras.

Ron Mann and his film crew trailed us and the wind blow my pink sunhat around as Susan explained how the programs work, and how families use the gardens and surrounding area for play and outdoor recreation. Then she told us of the disturbing plan by the Federal Government to close all the current Canadian prison farms for no good reason – they have not said how they will use the land they will have grabbed by doing so, or how they will replace the food currently provided by the farms, but rumour has it they want to build vastly expensive battery-hen big-box crime incubators of the kinds that have been so thoroughly demonstrated to produce nothing but more and better criminals — and of the opposition of the National Farmers’ Union to this scheme. For full information, go to their site at http://tinyurl.com/yc24jsu. This is an issue that cuts deep in Kingston, home of Canada’s famous old Penitentiary – which is, not incidentally, the main setting for my novel, Alias Grace.”