Vegetarian Potluck: Sunday, Jan 17th, 6 pm, Saturna Community Hall. Show up with your dish, savour vegetarian variety and the cooks' company. For more information, contact Judith at judithrt@saturnacan.net
Saturna Cafe
Trufficulture: TruffiCulture is Canada’s only proven supplier of trees inoculated with Truffle mycohrrizae. And they sell truffles too! We can grow them here . . . See Market Place, Interior BC, for more info.
Kefir lovers, order your kefir grains. Thanks to David Rotsztain, Mayne Island farmer and cheesemaker, a dozen or so souls are keen kefir makers on Saturna. Email juliet@paprika.ca to order your kefir grains (pronounce KU FEER').
Grow olive trees on Saturna
Over 100 olive trees are now growing on Saturna. The rest of the 180 imported here were delivered off island. If you are interested in purchasing a tree, email info@olivetrees.ca and ask to be put on the 2010 order list. See Projects - Olive Trees on Saturna for more information about tree varieties and project history.
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Welcome to 31 Square
Saturna Eats !
31 Square - Saturna Eats is Saturna Island's food network – a community information exchange that inspires events, projects and promotions about local and regional food.
Taking its cue from the 100-Mile Diet www.100milediet.org, in 2007 a group of enthusiastic gardeners, and hunters and gatherers of local fresh foods, established a food network on Saturna Island.
This Southern Gulf island of 31 square kilometres is home to several renowned chefs and restaurants, a well established bakery, a vineyard and a community that sponsors several dozen community food events a year. Enthusiasm for eating local foods, eating well and in good company spurred the creation of 31 Square - Saturna Eats.
The food network exists to share food-gardening experiences and resources, preserve extra bounty, support communal eating events and regional producers. An evolving project list includes organizing summer and winter garden tours, organizing presentations, surveying island fruit and produce growers, and bulk buying of organic produce. The network supports the Slow Food movement’s philosophy of valuing and sustaining community through commitment to local and heritage products, and of conviviality through sharing food at table.
Notices of meetings will be posted on this site and Saturna Island bulletin boards.