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Category Archives: bulk-food buying
Skookum’s Celebratory Social
The members of Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative gathered at Trinity Hall in Powell River on January 31 to celebrate our first public gathering for 2012, the United Nations International Year of the Cooperative. The salad/dessert pot-luck event attracted over 30 of … Continue reading →
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Skookum co-presents the film “To Make A Farm”
Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative is happy to co-sponsor (with Transition Town Powell River) the feature documentary, To Make a Farm (Canada, 2011) On Saturday February 18, 2012 at the Powell River Film Festival. See below for details, and a clip … Continue reading →
Posted in 2012, BC Co-operative Association, board, bulk-food buying, food security, local food economy, presentation, principles, projects, public meeting, shiitake, Skookum, Skookum Gleaners, values, work party, workshop
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Tagged festival, film, gathering, powell river, social, to make a farm, transition town
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Announcing Skookum’s Bulk Seed-Buying Project
We’re happy to introduce a new project open to Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative members only. It’s a bulk seed-buying club that will start off small with a selection of some 30 seed types from a local provider, Eternal Seed. As you … Continue reading →
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November 2011 letter from President Pete Tebbutt
Hello everyone, Our days are growing increasingly darker and the weather cycling into cooler temperatures. The world’s systems are straining from our (collective) disregard for the limits of our ecosystem to meet the demands made by our adherence to growth as a model … Continue reading →
REMINDER: Less than one week to go on our Rancho Vignola order!!
Hello again, Don’t forget that the deadline for ordering nuts, dried fruits, and related products from Rancho Vignola is Monday September 26. If you are interested but have questions or concerns, please contact me soon rather than at the last … Continue reading →
Bulk ordering nuts, dried fruit, and more
Hello Skookum member! Last year we tried to put together an order of nuts and dried fruit from Rancho Vignola, but didn’t have enough interest to make the minimum order of $500. We have more members this year, so here’s … Continue reading →
Announcing our new bulk-buying club! We need YOUR input…
(This post brought to you by Wendy Pelton, the coordinator of Skookum’s soon-to-be-launched bulk-food buying project. Please read it carefully and help us out by responding to the online survey. We want your input!) Great News! Thanks to Skookum, the … Continue reading →
Opportunities available
Hey there Skookum members (and other interested folks)! We want to let you know about some opportunities to get involved with a few projects that we will be working on this summer. If any one of these projects looks interesting … Continue reading →
