Author Archive
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Gentle Dragons Find Food
The Gentle Dragons found many current and potential food producers right across the Province and throughout the next months some of them will show up on this website when they qualify to receive loans from FarmWorks. In January and February there were FarmWorks information sessions and “Gentle Dragons” food producer showcases across Nova Scotia. Everyone was invited to attend to hear from local producers and to learn how FarmWorks is supporting producers. Shares in FarmWorks provide Provincial tax credits. The March 3rd Offer has closed but will reopen to accommodate additional investors (see below). People presented their plans or their ideas ...
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Danny Martin – Director
Danny Martin is a well known local musician who has played the Trombone since he was thirteen. Besides serving 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces as a trombonist with the Stadacona Band, fronting his own bands like Salsa Picante or performing which such local acts as The Hopping Penguins, Rasta Gumbo and Mike Cowie he has also per-formed with international acts such as The Spinners, Anne Murray, David Clayton Thom-as and Gino Vannelli. In 2012 he wanted to invest money in Nova Scotia. When his friend Lil MacPherson told him about FarmWorks he ...
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January 2014 Newsletter
February 2014 Newsletter
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Shift to Delicious – Nova Scotian Food
When you buy local food, you vote with your food dollar for family farms, thriving communities, and healthy, flavorful, plentiful food.
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“Gentle Dragons” Found Food
"Gentle Dragons" heard excellent presentations in November from existing and developing farmers and food producers from across the Province. FarmWorks will need to raise a substantial amount of money in the next CEDIF Offer to provide loans to those who qualify. We'll soon be adding short profiles of the Presenters. Friday, November 9th, THE BLOCKHOUSE SCHOOL, 63 School Road, BLOCKHOUSE, 12 – 4 pm Presenters: The Blockhouse School, Flying Apron Cookery, Ma Bell's Country Condiments, Cultivator's Market, EarthWood: A Pilot Proposal, Prometheus, Rustik Magazine Dragons: Jo Ann ...
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Getting Your Food to More Tables
- BRIDGING GAPS BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS - websites – social media – connections – food hubs - distribution If you grow, process, distribute, or eat food you’re invited to attend! Wolfville Farmers’ Market , Thursday, October 25th, 6 pm Contribution $5 – includes tea, coffee, juice, cookies Innovative food-related businesses and organizations continually seek to engage existing and new customers. The Web can bridge gaps and facilitate online connections and physical distribution.
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“Gentle Dragons” are looking for Food Entrepreneurs
The Blockhouse School, November 9th, 12 pm Masonic Hall, Baddeck, November 14th, 6 pm Wolfville Farmers’ Market, November 17th, 6 pm EVERYONE INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING LOCAL FARMS AND FOOD PRODUCERS IS INVITED TO ATTEND Coffee, Tea, Juice, Local Cookies Provided $5 Contribution Welcome Money invested in the FarmWorks Community Economic Development Fund provides loans to farms and food-related businesses to help increase the supply of local food, and agricultural and related economic activity. Showcase Events ...
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Producing More Food in Nova Scotia
Several of the Directors are traveling widely around Nova Scotia to meet with food producers who have applied, or are interested in applying, for loans from FarmWorks. We are increasing our knowledge of food production while enjoying the people, food, rural and urban amenities and the scenery (at our own expense, needless to say). It is evident that there is tremendous capacity for food production in this Province, limited primarily by demand. FarmWorks is promoting the message that FOOD GROWS HERE to encourage people to buy more food ...
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Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local
Kirk Johnson, New York Times, July 1st, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/us/small-scale-farmers-creating-a-new-profit-model.html?_r=1 Excerpts: "..... beyond the familiar mantras about nutrition or reduced fossil fuel use, the movement toward local food is creating a vibrant new economic laboratory for American agriculture. The result, with its growing army of small-scale local farmers, is as much about dollars as dinner: a reworking of old models about how food gets sold and farms get financed, and who gets dirt under their fingernails doing the work. “The future ...
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Food Grows Here
Over the next several months FarmWorks will be working with other individuals and organizations to promote the fact that FOOD Does GROW HERE! We'll be announcing where and when presentations will take place.
