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Good Food Box Newsletter – August 13, 2025

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✨🎒Bag yourself a deal with our Back-to-School Snack Bag full of fresh fruits and veggies for growing minds!💡
🥬At the Good Food Box we believe fresh, local produce should be accessible to everyone in our community. 🫡Our mission is simple: to strengthen local food systems, reduce food insecurity, and bring nutritious, affordable fruits and vegetables to households across Greater Victoria.
☀️By purchasing a Good Food Box, you are supporting a local non-profit that provides childcare, community meals, and free bags of fresh produce to community members in need.🫂✨
Simplify your week with nutritious, fresh snacks perfect for lunch boxes! 👀Check out the 🔗link in our bio to order your bag today‼️

What's in your bag?

BC Only: *Michell’s cauliflower, zucchini, corn & lettuce, *North Star Organics Beefsteak Orange tomatoes, org. BC strawberries

Cultural: Michell’s cauliflower & lettuce, *Gatton Farm org. zucchini, *North Star Organics cucumber & blueberries, *Giving Garden org. beans & collard greens, *Plot Market Garden org. slicing tomatoes, BC org. strawberries

Staples: **Michell’s cauliflower, zucchini & corn, Gatton Farm org. zucchini, *Giving Garden org. beans, bananas, *North Star Organics cucumbers and blueberries, org. BC strawberries

Standard Plus: *Michell’s cauliflower, corn & lettuce, *Gatton Farm org. zucchini, Nort Star Organics beets, blueberries & cucumber, Giving Garden beans & collard greens, org. BC apricots, *Plot Market Garden org. slicing tomatoes

Standard: *Michell’s cauliflower & corn, *North Star Organics cucumbers & blueberries, Plot Market Garden org. slicing tomatoes, org. BC strawberries

Sustainable: *North Star Organics beets, cucumbers, eggplant, blueberries & lettuce head, *Giving Garden org. beans & collard greens, *Gatton Farm org. zucchini, *Plot Market Garden org. slicing tomatoes, org. BC apricots

Fruit:  *org. North Star Organics blueberries, bananas, org. BC strawberries, org. BC apricots

Wet Weather Reminder

Don’t forget to bring along your reusable grocery bags or totes to avoid the soggy demise of our paper bags if you’ll be hitting the elements on the way home. Even just getting to the car during this soggy season could be lethal for your produce — we want it to make it all the way home — not playing a game of 10 pin on the sidewalk!

Zucchini Garlic Bites are the perfect last minute appetizer to share with friends or have as a last minute dinner. Heck, they’re a healthy option for football game snacks. You’ll find this simple ingredient recipe here.

Summer is the season for simple ingredients and this recipe Korean Zucchini side dish gives you crunch in no time and will leave you wanting more. Find out just how easy it is to make here.

Grill it or boil it, this corn is coated in rich, buttery, cheesy goodness. It can’t get any gooier than that. Find the recipe here.

Greek Roasted Cauliflower it perfect for those hot nights when you can crank on the BB and roast your cauliflower or great for one of these expected rainy days when you can fire up the oven and you won’t make the house too hot. Tossed with feta and herbs, this is a dynamite recipe filled with herbs and goodness. Find the recipe here.

Green Bean Salad with Basil, Balsamic and Parmesean will soon become a summer favourite. This definitely isn’t your granny’s soggy beans, you’ll be begging for seconds. Find the recipe here.

Let's Get Growing

Did you know you can rent a solar food dehydrator?

Do you have an abundance of apples, plums, tomatoes, or other veggies that you’d like to dehydrate for wintertime use? You can borrow a solar food dehydrator from us for a week. We also have a large solar dehydrator on site that you can book. Check out the link below to learn more 🍎

Okland's Sunset Market on Wednesday evenings has more than produce and music to fill your soul with...

Don’t forget to bring along your reusable grocery bags or totes to avoid the soggy demise of our paper bags if you’ll be hitting the elements on the way home. Even just getting to the car during this soggy season could be lethal for your produce — we want it to make it all the way home — not playing a game of 10 pin on the sidewalk!

Are you a business owner or employee and interested in how to reduce and divert your food waste? Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, August 26 12pm-1pm or Wednesday, September 17, 10am-11am.
🔗 Register and learn more through the link: https://compost.bc.ca/fall-plant-sale-fast-approaching-2/

Learn more about waste diversion at the @oaklands.sunset.market this past week, and the next 3! Come check out amazing vendors, music, a beer garden, and food! We have borrowed the dish library dishes so food trucks can save $ on take away containers and reduce waste! #market #farmersmarket #localfood #wastediversion #zerowaste

Check out Gaia Colege’s fall webinar schedule is posted! Join us to learn more the many applications of #organiclandcare including Firescaping, Ecoscaping and Composting. More info and registration at https://www.gaiacollege.ca/webinars

Connecting in Community

🌼 Join Lifecyle’s Welland Orchard staff for a morning of art in the orchard!
Learn how to use locally grown flowers and natural dyeing techniques to create stunning patterns on fabric. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore flower pounding, and each participant will take home their own naturally dyed tote bag.
📅 Sunday, August 24
🕙 10am – 12pm
📍 1215 Stancil Lane
Learn more about upcoming workshops at Welland Orchard and sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/welland-community-orchard-17553212358
The relational health of our Seniors is shaped by opportunities to connect with both peers and community members across the lifespan. The Fernwood Neighbourhood House (FNH) is presenting Seniors Connect, a two-stream program to support Seniors in our community.
Seniors Connect: Intergenerational Art Drop-In is a community-based art-making space, a weekly drop-in offered July-December. The program is free of cost, supplies are provided and participants can come and go within a 2-hour window.
Please share with your networks and loved ones. Thank you!
There are a few more weeks of this fantastic opportunity.
Calling all teens! Come to the Fernwood NH this summer on Tuesdays to make art- free of cost, with snacks and supplies provided! 🫶🌟🦋 Contact us for any questions around age range or accessibility.
This program was made possible by Zoë Cassidy’s creative legacy and the generosity of his friends and family. ❤️
RESCHEDULED. This Bollywood Fusion dance class organized by North Park Community Association has been rescheduled to later this month. Same time same place!
Friday August 29. 6:30 pm
1701 Quadra Street
Courtyard next to Vinyl Envy

Our friends at Substance will be leading another training, learn how to administer life saving Naloxone and take home a kit.

Wed, Aug 27 • 6:00 PM

1701 Quadra Street (courtyard next to vinyl envy)

head inside, our office is the first one on the left

We’re excited to invite you to a special two-part virtual series of Indigenous-led Talking Circles, where we’ll journey through eco‑grief toward solidarity and healing. These will be co-sosted by Two‑Spirit facilitator Beth Jacobs & Mi’kmaq land steward Jude Benoit.
These circles are designed to be attended separately or together, offering flexible ways to connect.
Here are the details:
Part 1 – Eco‑Grief Talking Circle
🗓 Friday, August 15
🕒 3:00–4:30 pm PST/7:30–9:00 pm NDT
📍 Online via Zoom
Part 2 – Eco‑Solidarity Talking Circle
🗓 Saturday, August 16
🕒 10:30 am–12:00 pm PST/3:00–4:30 pm NDT
📍 Online via Zoom
🧡 More about these Circles:
In these circles, we’ll explore how to move through eco‑grief to form a community of care and uphold our relations. An Anishinaabe counsellor and a Mi’kmaq land protector will guide us in this shared space of reflection, connection, and healing.
Beth Jacobs (they/them) is a Two-Spirit helper—a counsellor, researcher, community advocate, and beader. Their patrilineal family are Anishinaabe from Walpole Island First Nation (Bkejwanong), and their matrilineal roots are Settler (Irish-English) from Newfoundland and Labrador.
With over fifteen years of experience in social justice, equity, and collective care spaces, Beth has supported communities through trauma, transformation, and systems change. For more than a decade, they have been engaged in cultural resurgence, resistance to colonial harm, and community-led reconciliation.
Beth self-describes as anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-sanist, anti-colonial, trans-affirming/celebrating and anti-oppressive. They carry a heart of care and solidarity for people with diverse lived experiences to thrive—especially those who are Queer, racialized, neurodivergent, disabled, or navigating mental health systems.
Both circles are free to attend, but registration is required.
Register here.