I have just posted our second video profile on the ACORN Youtube page (youtube.com/acornorganic).
The video features this year’s coordinator of the Sackville Community Garden explaining his thoughts and aspirations concerning the garden and his position as coordinator. I hope you enjoy!
A higher resolution version is coming, but for now:
Archive for June, 2008
New video profile!
Posted in Community Gardening, tagged community garden, new brunswick, organic, sackville on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nominate your favourite farmer!
Posted in ACORN News, tagged award on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 1st Annual Spirit Nova Scotia Local Food Award will celebrate individuals, businesses and organizations that have made a significant contribution to the local food movement in Nova Scotia. Prizes will be awarded in three categories: producer (farmer/fisher), business(restaurants, retail etc.), and non-profit (organizations, institutions, individuals etc.). So why not nominate your favourite organic farmer, business or non-profit?
The deadline [...]
Video!
Posted in ACORN News, Community Gardening, tagged ACORN, community garden, dalhousie university, guerilla gardening, organic, see more green on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first of what will be a series of video profiles highlighting organics in Atlantic Canada is now available on our brand new Youtube channel!
Visit our channel here!
or just watch from the blog:
Read more about the See More Green Collective Garden at
seemoregreen.wordpress.com
Note that this is the lo-res version for slower internet [...]
Kids and Organics
Posted in Articles, tagged kids, learning, organic, organics, teach, teaching on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just recently, I had someone ask about ideas for teaching kids about organics as part of a unit at summer camp–what a great idea!
I was surprised to find that it wasn’t so easy to come up with something on my initial web search, but in the end we put together a list of ideas that [...]
Things to Look Forward to…
Posted in ACORN News, Community Gardening, tagged ACORN, blog, community garden, halifax, organic, video on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello readers,
After a few days of testing the blog waters, I feel it’s best to introduce myself.
I am Matt, the summer student at ACORN, and I will be updating this blog as frequently as possible with news from ACORN and information concerning organic production and consumption from all over Atlantic Canada. If you have anything [...]
ACORN Announces New Funding for Transition Extension Specialist
Posted in ACORN News, tagged ACORN, farming, funding, organic, transition on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network Co-operative Ltd. (ACORN) is pleased to announce that it has secured funding in the amount of $30,000 to support the creation of a new organic extension position.
Following a search and selection process, the position will become effective on June 23rd, providing technical advice and guidance to producers who are [...]
Welcoming ACORN to the World of Blogging
Posted in ACORN News, Articles, Community Gardening, Growing Tips, tagged ACORN, community garden, farm, organic on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to ACORN’s first blog!
What’s ACORN? It’s the organization that promotes organics in Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador). Our members include farmers, consumers, gardeners, researchers, students–anyone interested in organics.
ACORN’s mandate is pretty broad, so we enjoy the flexibility to do lots of interesting projects that might increase organic growing [...]
