City Beets Support our Food Hub

The LMNH Food Hub is so excited to announce our new partnership with City Beet Farm and their plans to grow fresh, local vegetables for our Food Distribution Program. 

The LMNH Food Distribution Program operates on a weekly basis and aims to provide healthy, culturally appropriate fresh produce and non-perishable food items at no cost. The need for fresh produce is high in our community. On average each week at our program we serve: 69 unique households, 202 unique individuals, 51 unique children, and 43 unique seniors. We also currently have 31 people on our waitlist and expect this number to continue to increase. 

We have launched a fundraiser with City Beet Farm and our goal is to raise $6000 dollars so that they can provide us with 80 produce items (example: 80 bunches of carrots, 80 heads of lettuce, etc.) each week for the duration of the growing season. Every dollar donated will be used to grow this fresh produce which will be distributed directly to our program participants. 

At LMNH, we believe that everybody deserves to have access to fresh, local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate produce. You can help! Visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-city-beet-farm-support-lmnh-food-hub

Building Collective Food Resilience

Our infographic and toolkit for building collective food resilience are now available. The toolkit was designed to support community-based organizations in this work and offer practical examples, resources and tips for implementation. It will be updated as we continue to work through the strategies and receive feedback. Download our Infographic, toolkit and feedback survey at the links below and join us to reflect on our food security journey.

Support Our Food Hub with Giving Tuesday

Our Food Hub is Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Society’s response to our community’s emergency food needs. Weekly, we feed 71 families serving 205 people & have 52 families on our waitlist. We provide healthy, locally grown and sourced produce and other foods in a dignified manner. We need your support to help us meet people where they are at and to create equitable and just food access. In Our Food Hub, we are growing our food and feeding our community.

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This Week in the Garden

Part of closing down for winter is doing maintenance on our garden tools. Art Bomke showed us how to first clean all the hand and long tools and then sharpen those with cutting edges, and finally oil both the blades and the handles to keep them in good condition for many years to come.
We also gathered around Monique's Garden bed to unveil the plaque now affixed to the side of the wooden container. She will be missed.
Angela
November 13

Work Party at the Garden

A cool but unexpectedly dry day! We are in tidying up mode now; the accessible beds were cleaned up, with the voluminous squash and cucumber vines removed, and weeds removed form the vegetable beds in preparation for mulching with fallen leaves, which will take place over the next few weeks.

The runner beans were thinned out as there is so much foliage that the beans are pale in colour as they have been shielded from the sun, but there are quite a few more beans to come. Bush beans have stopped cropping now so were cut down. Raspberry canes were also cut back, as although there are quite a few berries on them, there will not be enough sun to ripen them.

Further cutting back took place in the wild berry area, with both the red and blue elderberry shrubs reduced in height and thinned, as well as the thimble berry bushes. "Volunteer" oak saplings were also removed from this area, together with a vigorous growth of thistles! Today's harvest included carrots, parsnips, leeks, runner beans and herbs, and we all shared in a large squash from the Children's Garden which was cut into quarters for the volunteers and paired with herbs for a lovely roast squash dish!