Archive for August, 2008
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Calgary Farmers’ Market
The opening pages of the September-October 2008 issue of Calgary’s City Palate magazine contain a valuable and important message to local diners. In the section titled “Word of Mouth”, the editors of the City Palate encourage its readership to speak out in support of a local food institution. We share the sentiment.
The Calgary Farmers’ Market has one year left on a five year lease, and is facing the daunting and expensive task of relocating. The Market will not close! But in 2009, it must find a new home and leave its current digs on Currie Barracks, centrally located off Crowchild Trail and Richard Road in the central southwest of Calgary, with several roads in for convenient access. Canada Lands, the landlord of Currie Barracks, is enforcing its lease terms.
Show your support of local producers, local food and the local economy as evidenced by the huge success of the Calgary Farmers’ Market. As suggested by Calgary’s City Palate, write the following people –now! it only take a minute to voice your opinion!– and tell them that you favour the Calgary Farmers’ Market staying put.
Write to:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at pm@gc.ca;
Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier, at themayor@calgary.ca;
Lee Richardson, Federal Conservative Calgary Centre MP, at richoll@parl.gc.ca or at richardson.l@parl.gc.ca;
Brain Pincott, Calgary city alderman, at brian.pincott@calgary.ca;
Mark Laroche of Canada Lands Co., the developers of the property, at clc@clc.ca;
Lawrence Cannon, Federal Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, at cannon.l@parl.gc.ca;
Jim Flaherty, Federal Minister of Finance , at jim@jimflahertymp.ca;
Alison Redford, MLA , Calgary-Elbow, and Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Alberta Legislature, at calgary.elbow@assembly.ab.ca
You have a voice, and change happens when committed people raise their voices and their wills. Use your voice. Support your community’s well-being, your local and sustainable food supply systems and the sensible idea that good, healthy food should remain accessible. Keep your dining dollars in Alberta, and keep the Calgary Farmers’ Market at the Currie Barracks.
Thank you.
dee Hobsbawn-Smith, President, Slow Food Calgary
Slow Food Calgary
Slow Food Canada Nominations for Terra Madre 2008
Congratulations to Canada’s Official Terra Madre Nominees.
Click here to see a complete list of the nominees, including those chosen from the agricultural and culinary communities in and around Calgary.
Read the latest news on Terra Madre 2008 and related projects here: Terra Madre Newsletter