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Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems II
Part II in a series featuring recordings from the 2009 Community Food Matters Gathering.

Over the past few years, Deconstructing Dinner has involved itself with the Nelson, B.C. based networking group, Community Food Matters. Like many similar community food security groups operating throughout North America, Community Food Matters is made up of organizations, businesses and individuals interested in enhancing the local food system.

On March 24, 2009, Deconstructing Dinner, alongside Community Food Matters, hosted an event designed to stimulate awareness and collaboration within the community. For those outside of the community, the event acts as a model of how other North American communities concerned with local food security could gather once a year and share their work and future plans.

What resulted from the March 24 event was an amazing snapshot of the capacity of just one community seeking to tackle the difficult but critical task of fostering a viable local food system.

Funding for this project has been provided by the Community Food Action Initiative, in cooperation with Interior Health

Backyard Chickens VI (Farming in the City VIII)
The familiar and entertaning Bucky Buckaw has some important perspectives on the tradition of giving chicks to children on Easter

Voices

John Alton - Community Farm (Nelson, BC)

Florence Christophers - Nelson CARES Society (Nelson, BC)

Paul Hoepfner-Homme - Nelson Urban Acres (Nelson, BC)

Paul Craig - Sharing Backyards (Nelson, BC)

Jesse Phillips - Canning (Nelson, BC)

Joe Karthein - Community Futures Central Kootenay (Nelson, BC)

SueAnne Smith - Ellison's Market (Nelson, BC)

Nadiv & Chets-Rashone - Preserved Seed Cafe / Mount Sentinel Farm (Nelson, BC)

Valerie Sanderson - Backyard Chickens (Nelson, BC)

Abra Brynne - Foodshed Animator (Nelson, BC)

Robert Agnew - Upper Columbia Co-operative Council (Crawford Bay, BC)

Jay Blackmore & David Oosthuizen - Kootenay Lake Sailing Association (Nelson, BC)

Jennie Barron - Central School Garden (Nelson, BC)

Bucky Buckaw - Host, Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast (Boise, ID) - Bucky Buckaw gives advice on raising backyard chickens as just one example of how a locally based economy can work. Through this segment, he informs listeners about the downside of factory farming and what kinds of toxic chemicals you can expect to find in the resultant livestock. He promotes organic gardening and composting, and supporting local farmers.

• Community Food Matters
• Nelson CARES Society
• Nelson Urban Acres
• Community Futures Central Kootenay
• Ellison's Market
• Preserved Seed Cafe / Mount Sentinel Farm
• Backyard Chickens in Nelson
• Abra Brynne
• Upper Columbia Co-operative Council
• Kootenay Lake Sailing Association
• Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast

• Part 1 - Introduction by Jon Steinman (11:24)
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• Part 2 - Slocan Valley Farmers Group, Kootenay Organic Growers Society, Kootenay Local Agricultural Society, Kaslo Food Security Project, Future of Food Working Group (28:57)
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• Part 3 - Kootenay Grain CSA, Creston Valley Food Action Coalition, Community Farms, West Kootenay Eco Society, Kootenay Food Strategy Society (26:20)
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• Part 4 - Earth Matters, Soil Matters Farm CSA, Nelson Food Cupboard Society, Slocan Valley Food Cupboard, Oso Negro Coffee (Rooftop Garden), Canning (28:17)
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• Part 5 - United Nations (Kootenay Branch) / Pass Creek Community Hall Society, Interior Health, Nelson CARES Society, Kootenay Country Store Co-operative (16:59)
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• Part 6 - Growing Through the Seasons, Nelson Urban Acres, Ellison's Market, Preserved Seed Cafe / Mount Sentinel Farm, Backyard Chickens (26:36)
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• Part 7 - Abra Brynne, Community Futures, Upper Columbia Co-operative Council, Kootenay Lake Sailing Association, Paul Craig, Achille Lalonde, Central School Garden, Osprey Foundation, Deconstructing Dinner, G.E. Free Kootenays, (46:32)
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• See Community Food Matters page

• The Local Grain Revolution VII - Sailing Grain
• Backyard Chickens
• Farming in the City I (SPIN Farming)
• Conscientious Cooks II (Preserved Seed Cafe)
• Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food