SUBSCRIBE to 31 Square to find out what's growing . . . and who's eating what. Subscribe to receive email about local food and gardens, and to contact all those other 31-squares on Saturna and elsewhere. Subscribe to promote your food-and-garden-related business. It's easy! Once you subscribe, talk to us all by emailing 31square@31square.com.
SUBSCRIBE to 31 Square to find out what's growing . . . and who's eating what. Subscribe to receive email about local food and gardens, and to contact all those other 31-squares on Saturna and elsewhere. Subscribe to promote your food-and-garden-related business. It's easy! Once you subscribe, talk to us all by emailing 31square@31square.com.
SUBSCRIBE to 31 Square to find out what's growing . . . and who's eating what. Subscribe to receive email about local food and gardens, and to contact all those other 31-squares on Saturna and elsewhere. Subscribe to promote your food-and-garden-related business. It's easy! Once you subscribe, talk to us all by emailing 31square@31square.com.
Welcome to 31 Square
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, and sustaining the natural environment.
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.
31 Square - Grow Native encourages the appreciation of Saturna's natural areas through projects to remove invasive plants, restore native habitat and engage island residents and visitors in related activities.
In 2010, 31 Square showed its even greener side with the launch of its Grow Native project. Working with Parks Canada, Saturna volunteers have cleared a well used park area at Winter Cove of invasive plants, aiming to restore the place to a Douglas fir habitat. Now almost free of broom and blackberry, and showing off over 100 baby fir trees, this small area is testament to the persistence of determined volunteers.
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.