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SUMMARY:Spring Meet-Up: Farmers Network for Black\, Indigenous and People of Colour
DESCRIPTION:March is Member Month at EFAO! Every March\, we offer a series of events to prospective members at free or discounted rates\, to give folks a chance to experience membership without the commitment. Members who join EFAO or renew in March (regardless of when their membership expires) will be entered to win 3 books of their choice from New Society Publishers! Visit the EFAO membership page for more details. \nTo all the wonderful folks in the Farmers Network for Black\, Indigenous and People of Colour: please join us for a spring online meetup! We’ve had some awesome in-person gatherings over the past year and it would be great to catch up with the bigger group on Zoom\, before the season gets busier. \n\n\n Connect with BIPOC farmers in your area\n Get info on sourcing seeds and seedlings for your cultural crops\n Meet EFAO’s BIPOC staff and board members\n Find out about programs\, grants and other opportunities coming up in 2024
URL:https://efao.ca/event/spring-meet-up-farmers-network-for-black-indigenous-and-people-of-colour/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210330T120000
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SUMMARY:Alternative Economies
DESCRIPTION:Join Antonio Gomes of Cavaleiro Farm and Brent Klassen of Heartwood Farm & Cidery as they share some of their thoughts and experiences on alternative economic principles (i.e. gift economy\, barter\, etc.) and the role these alternative economies can play on a farm.  In addition to discussing some theories and ideas\, they will share some experiences of how these have come into play on their own farms and what this could look like in the future.  After two short presentations\, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions\, participate in discussion\, and share their own experiences with the group.
URL:https://efao.ca/event/alternative-economies-march-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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SUMMARY:Seedling Care Meet-up
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to connect and share ideas with other CSA/market garden farmers about seedling management? As we begin another growing season\, this meet-up will provide a space to gather together to discuss a question or problem you are struggling with\, and to support one another in our quest to grow healthy resilient seedlings.\n\n\n  \nThe meet-up will be structured as a guided discussion with three parts\, focusing the questions on “lean” processes\, soil medium and fertility\, watering\, heating/cooling.\n\n\n  \n1) What is working well with your seedlings?\n2) What issues would you like to see resolved? Are there barriers to getting issues resolved?\n3) Do you have any questions about seedling management that you would like to ask to the group?\n\n\n  \nFacilitator: Isabelle Spence-Legault\n\n\n  \nMember Month Meet-ups are free and open to anyone.
URL:https://efao.ca/event/seedling-care/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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SUMMARY:Soil as Relationships
DESCRIPTION:While ecological farmers know more about soil health than many\, this conversation invites us to look at soil health as a series of relationships. In Afro-Indigenous teachings throughout time and place\, the natural world\, including the soil that feeds us\, is not a resource. Soil\, water\, air\, plants\, animals are a series of relationships in which humans have their role\, in a beautiful exchange of nourishment and obligation. Afro-Indigenous teachings and skills highlight the need to tend\, nurture\, and weave to maintain relationships of balance above and below ground.\n\n\n\n  \nUnderstanding soil ecosystems as a web of living relationships can inspire us as growers to cultivate more diverse microbial communities within the soil through practices like increasing plant diversity aboveground\, covering the soil and leaving soil layers intact. De-colonizing our farm practices fosters stronger\, more diverse relationships\, increasing resilience and abundance\, as well as a deeper sense of connection and belonging to the land.\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nFacilitator: Angel Beyde \nAngel is a Black / mixed race grower of food and flowers. An Organic Master Gardener\, educator and facilitator\, Angel has worked in Urban Ag\, eco-landscaping and non-profits for many years. She is passionate about regenerative growing practices as key to food security and community abundance. Angel and her husband Raph are currently looking for rural land with a home to start their organic market garden Good Fortune Farmstead in 2021.
URL:https://efao.ca/event/soil-as-relationships/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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SUMMARY:Grazing Cover Crops
DESCRIPTION:Along with her husband Adam and four daughters\, Marie runs a cow/calf beef and sheep farm\, and grow silage corn\, winter wheat\, soybeans along with hay. Marie and Adam have been grazing cover crops since 2017 with the goal of extending the grazing season and improving soil health.\n\n\n\nParticipants will hear from Marie about their experiences (including both challenges and opportunities) grazing cover crops and then participate in a discussion to share their own experiences and questions.\n\n\n\nMember Month Meet-ups are free and open to anyone
URL:https://efao.ca/event/grazing-cover-crops-march-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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SUMMARY:Using Breath as a Tool for Farmer Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Join Bethany of @Tenderfarmer (on Facebook and Instagram) for a virtual meet-up on using the subtle power of the breath to change your relationship to your farm.  Learn about the science of trauma and how it relates to breathing\, learn why meditation and breathwork is good for some and not others\, and learn how to use subtle movement and massage to naturally enhance your breathing through your days.  \n  \nBethany will start with a presentation\, which will be followed by a group conversation facilitated by Bethany regarding Farmer Wellness. \n  \nMember Month Meet-ups are free and open to anyone.
URL:https://efao.ca/event/breath-as-a-tool/
LOCATION:Online\, Online via Zoom - link will be sent to registrants
CATEGORIES:Member Month Meet-up
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