Good Food Box Newsletter – August 20, 2025
Back to School!
Back-to-school just got tastier! Snag our Snack Bag packed with fresh, local fruits & veggies perfect for lunch boxes and growing minds 
Every Good Food Box supports our mission to bring fresh, affordable produce to the community 
Check out the 
link in our bio to order your bag today
What's in your bag?
BC Only: *Michell’s carrots, corn & Romaine lettuce, *North Star Organics red onion, *Gatton Farm org. beans, *City’s Edge mini cucumber, *garlic, Littlest Acre org. heirloom tomatoes, *org. strawberries, *Giving Garden org. collard greens
Cultural: North Star Organics red onion, *Michell’s corn & Romaine lettuce, *Giving Garden org. beans, garlic, collard greens, *Gatton Farm org. beans, *Littlest Acre org. heirloom tomatoes, BC bananas, **South Island Farm Hub org. strawberries, org. cilantro
Staples: **Michell’s carrots, Gatton Farm org. zucchini, *Giving Garden org. beans & garlic, cantaloupe, bananas, *Gatton Farm org. beans, South Island Farm Hub org. peaches & strawberries, Littlest Acre org. heirloom tomatoes
Standard Plus: *Michell’s carrots, corn, Romaine, kale, *North Star Organics red onion, *Giving Garden org. beans & garlic, *Gatton Farm org. beans, banana, *South Island Farm Hub org. peaches, *Littlest Acre org. heirloom tomatoes, garlic
Standard: *Michell’s cauliflower, carrots & corn, mini cucumbers, bananas, City’s Edge org. heirloom tomatoes, garlic
Sustainable: *North Star Organics red onion, *Littlest Acre org. heirloom tomatoes, *Giving Garden org. collard greens, garlic & beans, South Island Farm Hub org. peaches & strawberries
Snack: cantaloupe, *Michell’s carrots, BC bananas, *South Island Farm Hub org. strawberries & peaches, *City’s Edge mini cucumbers, mango
Fruit: cantaloupe, BC bananas, South Island Farm Hub apricots & org. strawberries & peaches
This fresh, tangy green vegetarian collard slaw comes together in minutes and lands with a punch of citrus and feta. It takes like summer barbeque fixings on the side. It uses very few ingredients while also being mayo free. Find Food Fidelity’s recipe here.
If every week you wait until your collard greens are too limp to cook and starting to yellow, wait no longer, try Cookie and Kate’s Lemony Collard Green pasta. Sauteing the thinly sliced collards in lemon will leaving you withing for more of these delicious greens. Find the recipe here.
Thanks to the Giving Gardens at Royal Roads University for our collard greens this week!
A rustic heritage tomato gallete is the perfect way to end the summer using up those heritage tomatoes from your garden or the heritage tomatoes from Littlest Acre found in the Good Food Box. This herb laced cheese in it’s soft, rustic puff pastry crust is perfect for a picnic or any meal you have a hankering for it. Find the recipe here.
Mediterranean Cauliflower Couscous salad is gluten free, Whole 30, keto and vegan. Created in 15 minutes, start to finish, this healthy salad with it’s lemony punch will leave you feeling refreshed. Find the recipe here. Want more cauliflower in your life, this delicious bunch came from Michell’s farm.
Let's get growing and preserving!
Want to make the most of your garden harvest without expensive equipment or complex processing?
Register Now: www.tinyurl.com/Store-Your-Food
Learn from acclaimed organic gardening expert Linda Gilkeson, celebrated author and educator. Linda will share simple food storage methods that anyone can use to save garden surpluses for winter eating or build up a stash of delicious, nutritious food for emergencies.
Date: Sunday, September 14th
Time: 3-5 PM
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: Pay what you can
What You’ll Learn:
4 easy ways to preserve your harvest—no special gear needed
Which veggies can stay in the garden all winter
How to store produce like onions, squash & apples for months
Energy-saving freezing & dehydrating tips
How to build a food stash for winter or emergencies Save Your Spot Today! www.tinyurl.com/Store-Your-Food
Note: if you are having trouble with the registration link above, please go directly to our website: https://transitionsaltspring.com/simple-food…/
#OrganicGardening #FoodSecurity #foodpreservation #preservingfood #foodstorage #homesteading #DIYfoodpreservation #sustainablegardening #canning #dehydratingfood
We’d love for you and your family to join us at Rooted Narratives: Story Circle & Creative Jam, a community gathering full of stories, art, food, and music. Together, we’ll help bring the children’s book Kofi and the Seed Seekers and a companion documentary to life!
When: September 6th
Time: 10 am -12 pm
Where: Fernwood Community Centre (GYM)
Cost: Free — all ages welcome (activities designed for kids ages 4–12)
What to expect
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Family-friendly story circles to share food memories, recipes, and migration stories.
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Creative art-making stations, including a kids’ character design table and a cultural crop mapping wall.
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Light snacks and music to enjoy together.
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A chance to shape Kofi and the Seed Seekers and inspire the film with your stories.
Special gift: Every attendee (or family) will receive a free copy of Kofi and the Seed Seekers when it’s published.
How to join:
Reserve your free spot on Eventbrite here: Eventbrite Link
We can’t wait to create, share, and celebrate with you!
The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (KPU) is inviting you to join us at upcoming Dry Farming Showcase and Field Days to:
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Tour dry farming market garden trial sites and learn how farmers grew select market garden crops without supplemental irrigation
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Learn about dry farming practices and supportive technologies
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Deepen your understanding of the movement of moisture and weather data to inform dry farming practice
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Discuss successes, lessons learned, and farmers’ experiences
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Taste test, resource share, and network
Register* with the links below
Comox Valley Dry Farming Showcase and Field Day, 22 Aug 2025
North Saanich Dry Farming Showcase and Field Day, 20 Sep 2025
Salt Spring Island Dry Farming Showcase and Field Day, 27 Sep 2025
Sign up for the newsletter here: Pacific Coastal Dry Farming Collaborative
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time: 6:00–8:30 PM Eastern (3:00–5:30 PM Pacific, 7:00–9:30 PM Atlantic)
Location: Live on Zoom (link provided after registration)
Cost: $25 CAD per person (includes live session + replay + full toolkit)https://simpli.events/e/school-garden-workshop-2025
Connecting in Community
Solastalgia: Addressing Climate Anxiety through Community Building and Art-Making — Session 2: Making Art Public
August 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN for session 2 of our summer series addressing climate grief through community and art making. In this session, our collective ideas will be transformed into vibrant public art. We’ll be taking the insights and inspiration from our zine-making workshop and bringing them to life through a collaborative piece of art that we will bring to the public.
What to expect: For session 2, we are going out into the community, as we take our ideas from session 1 and turn them into a temporary public mural in Fernwood Square. Because we will be outside in the beautiful summer sun, make sure to bring water, wear sunscreen, and take breaks as needed. There are also some accessibility aspects to note, as the temporary mural will be on the ground, so to participate in the painting, you will need to bend over, crouch, or sit on the ground at some point throughout the session. If this isn’t accessible to you, we still would love for you to stop by, contribute your ideas to the conversations, and take up space in public together! We invite everyone to attend, whether you came to session 1 or not. All skill levels are welcome as the mural making will be led by the RAVEN Communications team, and artist, Coulee Ross.
This interactive art-making event invites us all to communicate with the wider community that we are not alone — and that together we can take action for our collective futures. The day will begin with a short moment to connect and be in conversation with each other on the theme of reimagining collective futures — and re-rooting into the idea that we can respond to our climate grief with connection and imagination. We will then co-create a piece of public art.
Copies of the zine from Session 1 will be available on-site.
The mural we will be working on will have space for collaboration, but will have a baseline design done by Coulee Ross.
Details
Location: Little Fernwood Gallery, Victoria, B.C. & Fernwood Square
Date and Time: August 24, 2025, from 10 am – 1 pm
What to expect — (note, you do not have to stay for the entire time – you can drop in and out through the event):
10:00: doors, tea, coffee, snacks made available
10:30: Introduction to activity, reflections from previous session
10:45-12:45 – Mural Painting
12:45-1:00 closing thoughts
1:00-1:15 – clean up and goodbyes
Artist bio: Coulee Ross is a nêhiyaw iskwêw (Cree woman) from Peepeekisis Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory and a citizen of the Métis Nation of BC. She is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and story-weaver working at the intersections of Indigenous futurism, felt history, and narrative alchemy. Her practice spans visual arts, immersive listening, spatial storytelling, political aesthetics, and place-based methodologies—centering community memory and future possibility through collaborative creation.
Recently, Coulee completed an artist residency at Rockslide Gallery and curated a multi-day Storytellers Festival that foregrounded Indigenous narrative practice, relational ethics, and temporal fluidity. Her work draws on tactile media, cartographic imagination, and participatory installation to activate story as both a vessel and a method of transformation.
She is the creator of the Something Else Universe, an expanding transmedia world that invites us to reimagine reality through Indigenous ways of knowing, feeling, and being. Her original methodologies—including Liminal Story Weaving, Unstorying, and Futuration—are grounded in the belief that stories are alive, and transforming story is a form of liberation.
Coulee’s current projects include Liminal Frequencies, a speculative radio collaboration with UMFM exploring how vibration, imagination, and Indigenous frequency can carry futures through the air. Her practice invites others to consider storytelling not as content, but as consciousness. Not as performance, but as portal. Not as escape, but as return.
Register here.
Help shape Victoria’s e-bike share system by telling us where you want to go! 
A new e-bike share system is coming to Victoria that will provide residents and visitors with more options to get around. Easy-to-ride e-bikes and helmets will be available in designated parking zones across the City to rent using a smartphone app.
You’ll be able to grab an e-bike from any bike share parking zone in Victoria, cruise to your destination and drop off your ride in the nearest bike share parking zone when you arrive. We’re currently planning the locations of these parking zones, and we want to hear from you: where do you want to take bike share in Victoria?
Tell City of Victoria – Local Government by September 24 at engage.victoria.ca/bikeshare.
The Fairfield Gonzales Community Association is celebrating our 50th Anniversary and presenting our 15th Annual Fall Fairfield this fall
Date: Sunday, September 21
Time: 12-4pmLocation: Robert Porter Park
Join us for an afternoon celebrating the harvest season and our love for the community 
This year, we have 50+ vendors, food trucks, exciting live performances, and more! You won’t want to miss it!
Shoutout to our sponsors Engel & Völkers Vancouver Island, Pizzeria Prima Strada, and Sunset Market And Floral for supporting this beloved commnuity festival
