Starting June 8, join Loving Spoonful staff and volunteers at the Acorn Garden (located at the Oak Street Community Garden) every Tuesday from 4-6 pm! These workbees are the perfect opportunity to learn about gardening, to share your gardening wisdom with others, and to help grow produce that will be donated to local meal programs and food banks.
Come visit the Loving Spoonful‘s exhibit at Kingston’s Earth, Body, and Spirit Expo!
The Expo will feature a host of Health and Wellness Practitioners, Sustainable Living Businesses, and Personal Growth experts. Admission is $3 (and free for children under 12) and it is located at the Invista Centre at 1350 Gardiner’s Road (at Fortune Crescent) in Kingston.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Loving Spoonful is pleased to announce our upcoming fundraiser organized by the Soul Shakedown Collective in Kingston! Details: Saturday April 24th, 10pm at Time to Laugh Comedy Club (394 Princess St). $8 before 11pm, $10 after.
Join us for an evening of great music and company, while supporting food security initiatives in Kingston!
Check out Soul Shakedown’s Blog: http://soulshakedownkingston.wordpress.com/
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!
7PM – at St Vincent de Paul (85A Stephen St)
We want to start planning the 2010 Grow a Row campaign and are looking for many people to join us! The GROW A ROW COMMITTEE will work with Susan to coordinate all aspects of the Grow a Row Campaign including but not limited to: producing promotional materials to circulate in the community, arranging public displays in different locations in town, outreaching to community organizations and groups to sign up to “grow a row” in their gardens, contacting media for publicity, working out logistics of drop off points, collecting produce throughout the summer and fall, organizing an end of season celebration and thank you to all individuals and organizations who contributed to the 2010 campaign.
For more information about Grow a Row in Canada please visit: http://www.growarow.org/
If you can’t make the meeting though would like to get involved, please contact us!
Sarah Harmer, Fred Penner, Luther Wright, Open Heart Society featuring Chris Brown and Eric Schenkman, Brian Flynn, Kris and Dee, Maya Thau-Eleff and special guests will play Sydenham Street United Church on March 20 from 7-10 p.m.
Tickets for the fundraiser cost $15 ($5 for unemployed and underemployed). They can be purchased at Renaissance Music, Tara Natural Foods, Brian’s Record Option and Local Family Farms in Verona. cash only please. A small number will be available at the door.
The partners for the concert include Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice, Frontenac Cattlemen’s Association, Frontenac Federation of Agriculture, John Howard Society, National Farmers Union Local 316, Sisters of Providence Justice and Peace Office, Union of Solicitor General Employees and Urban Agriculture Kingston.
For more information, or to volunteer for the Save Our Prison Farms Campaign, please contact (613) 767-4127 or mccann17@yahoo.co
