Glendale Gardens & Woodland
Victoria, BC

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Festival News| Advance Tickets|Main Stage Presentations|Chefs Demos|Featured Exhibitors|Exhibitors List|Getting There|Green Events in your Community

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Come down and visit the Organic Islands booth at the Farmers Markets we'll be at over the next couple of weeks – you could WIN 4 FREE ADULT TICKETS to the festival or purchase your advance tickets from us at the market. We’ll be at Mayfair Market, Peninsula Country Market,Bastion Square and possibly others. See The Green Scene Blog for more details.

Festival News

From Deb Morse, Festival Director and Founder

At this year's festival I promise that you’ll not only learn how to green up your life – you’ll also have a great time listening to wonderful music, drinking in the atmosphere with organic beverages and farm fresh foods.

 

On the educational side of things we have two Main Stage Presentations this year: “Reviving the Vancouver Island Diet” on Saturday with “Zero Mile Diet” expert and author Carolyn Herriot and other local food advocates, and on Sunday “How to create Sustainable Change” Sustainability Guru Dirk Becker from Lantzville, BC with other change-makers. Of course all 150 exhibitors have lots of 'how to' information for you along with their sustainable products for sale -- including a Farmers Market. 

 

Advance Tickets on Sale Now – Save up to 25%

Includes free entry draw to win eco-prizes totaling $1500+. Visit the Green Scene Blog to find out about “La Vida Eco” prizes.

Adults: $10 advanced / $12 at the door
Youth (13-18)/Seniors (65+): $7.50 advanced / $10 at the door
Family Passes: Only available at the door – $35 (includes 2 adult & 2 youth/senior)

Children 12 and under are free

 

Admission includes entry to all exhibits, presentations, entertainment, half-acre Children’s Village and access to Gardens and Woodland. ATM Onsite. Advance Tickets on Sale online (click here) and at select retailers:

Main Stage Presentations

Reviving the Vancouver Island Diet – Sat. July 4, 1 PM

In the 1960’s Vancouver Island produced 85% of Islanders’ food; now, over 90% of our food supply is shipped in from off-Island. Join Carolyn Herriot, The Garden Path Centre, Dr. Bill Code, Jen Fisher-Bradley, Women’s Water and Food Initiative, Tom Henry, Small Farm Magazine and Robert Thompson, presentation moderator, on the main stage to find out how we can work together to revive the Vancouver Island Diet (VID) and use the VID as a market tool to increase public support and local action to ensure Island food security. Find out what you can do to buy local, grow local and think local!

How to Create Sustainable Change – Sun., July 5, 1 PM

Join Sustainability Guru, Dirk Becker, Brandon Bauer of The Blue Raven Permaculture Farm, Kevin Pegg of Energy Alternatives, Devon Carter, Home-ECOnomics and moderator Brandy Gallagher, O.U.R. EcoVillage to challenge, inspire and provide insight on how to create sustainable change in your life, family and community.




See the ‘festival program’ for complete details and music schedule for main stage.

Home Grown, Island Style Terasen Gas
Cooking Stage

Both days at the festival, enjoy demos by local chefs showcasing the Vancouver Island Diet with local, fresh, seasonal fare. Recipes will be available to pick up at the Terasen Gas booth.

The fun begins on Saturday, July 4 at 12 pm noon with chefs and organic growers Dayle Cosway and Tina Fraser from the Terralicious Gardening & Cooking School Their demo, Holy Ravioli, It’s a Healthy Pizza! features Alice Waters’ famous pizza dough recipe with the spicy rye base and a unique combination of scrumptious garden goodies. Expect the unexpected and prepare to become convinced that pizza doesn’t need a heavy layer of cheese to be delicious. Though some samples (yes the chefs are providing tasty samples!) will feature a crusty foam of creamy Island cheese the stars of the stage will be: oven roasted veggies caramelized to mouth watering perfection, spiced up and tangy arugula, and sautéed summer aromatics. Come and learn the Terralicious ladies quick and easy steps to serving up a garden of goodness on everyone’s favorite meal.



More details in next week’s newsletter about chefs and their delectable offerings: Kunal Ghose, Red Fish Blue Fish; Laura Moore, The Good for you Gourmet; Natalie Brake, Dinners by Design; and Zach Regan, Caterer and graduate of Edward Milne Community School Culinary Arts Program and Slow Foods Garden.

Featured Exhibitors:
Silk Road, Energy Alternatives, Milagro Retreats

Silk Road Hosts a Japanese Tea Ceremony at the Festival

Silk Road locally manufactures and sells certified organic teas and aromatherapy skin, hair and bodycare products. The aromatherapy products are also GMO-free, preservative-free and cruelty-free, and the packaging is recyclable. Silk Road purchases its organic essential oils and teas from smaller farms, which use sustainable farming practices and pay their workers well.

This year, Silk Road is hosting a special event at Organic Islands - The Japanese Tea Ceremony. Also known as The Way of Tea, the Japanese Tea ceremony is an art form that takes a lifetime to perfect, and reminds participants to live in the moment. Observe a ritual that draws from the aesthetics of Zen Buddhism to create a harmonious retreat for the mind and spirit. Download pdf version.

Performed by the Urasenke Nagomi Tea Circle at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm on Sunday, July 5.

Energy Alternatives Solar Powers the Festival

EA specializes in the design, sale, installation and maintenance of electrical power systems which harness energy primarily from Sunshine, Wind water. Owner Kevin Pegg believes its important that we use this opportunity at the festival to educate people on energy. Our Solar Power station will provide energy in the Village for the main stage and vendors and in the Children’s Village. The station will show the net energy being used by those hooked up to the station, as well as the amount of power coming in from the sun.

Milagro Retreats: Offers 10% discount on retreats

 

Milagro Retreats is a Vancouver Island based wellness company offering international Yoga and Surf Retreats and Local Seasonal and Living Food Catering. We exist to inspire growth and unity with nature and invite you to join us in Tofino this summer and Baja, Mexico over the winter season. hOMe Grown Living Foods is a Cowichan based raw snack food line.*RAW *VEGAN *GLUTEN~FREE *SPROUTED* Hand-prepared in small batches with Love and Gratitude at hOMe.

Milagro is pleased to offer Organic Islands’ newsletter subscribers and exhibitors a 10% discount on the following Retreats:

* July 31- August 3rd ~ Journey Through the 5 Elements Retreat at the Tofino Botanical Gardens. Information: Click here. Valid through June 30th, 2009.

* September 11-13th ~ Co-ed Yoga and Surf Retreat in Tofino with Organic Islands Team, Festival Director and Volunteers. Information: Click here. Valid through August 11th, 2009.

They request that you use the following code on your registration form 'OIF' – Click here for more info about retreats.

Exhibitors List

Click here for a list of exhibitors at the Eestival.

Getting There

Free biodiesel shuttle bus courtesy of TOFINO BUS – leaves from these locations in Greater Victoria:

• Douglas St (at Mayfair Mall)
• Royal Oak Exchange
• Camosun College Interurban campus

Bike trails lead to Glendale Gardens from the Centennial Trail System. Valet bike parking at Interurban entrance to Glendale Gardens by donation.

Free vehicle parking on Beaver Lake Road.

See ‘Getting There’ for bus schedule, map and directions.

Community events

For more news about green events in Victoria, check out the The Green Diary: http://www.earthfuture.com/greendiary

Woodwyn Farm

Work Party
Saturday, June 20 9:30-4:30 pm, 6:30pm potluck dinner

Need help painting, weeding and cleaning. Lunch provide, all participants welcome for potluck – bring an instrument and chair. Please e-mail lisagrant@telus.net if you can make it

Presentation
Thursday, June 25 6:00pm dinner 7:00pm presentation
A presentation by Woodwynn’s Director, Richard Leblanc on how Woodwynn’s Farm Project is taking one step towards solving Victoria’ homeless problem.
Call to reserve your space 250-477-3822 or register@queenswood.com.
Tickets for dinner & presentation $25, presentation only $15.

Annual Green Drinks at Royal Roads

There is no other Green Drinks gathering like this during the year, July's Green Drinks will be at Royal Roads for the celebration of the year from 6-8 pm on Tuesday, July 14th. For information for the green market place, volunteering and the sustainability challenge, click here.

Conversations with Roger: Women in Change

If you are a woman involved in, or facing change you're invited to this Conversation on July 20th, an extension of the thoughtful series offered at the Fernwood Inn since January 2008. Whether your change relates to geography, relationship, family, children, work or career, you will develop and apply fresh skills around exploring personal story immediately with others in a safe, connected, fun atmosphere. Facilitators Christopher Bowers and Robin Hood. For details, click here.

Building as if People Mattered Conference

July 23-26, 2009 at O.U.R.ECOVILLAGE, Shawnigan Lake, BC, Canada.

House building has developed from traditional, vernacular, handmade to industrialized, mechanical and highly specialized. The natural building movement brings back to our awareness what we have given up in that process: the personal investment in building one’s home, the expectation of a building that is to scale with human need rather than want, the respect for people and place.

Join us for a weekend of discussion, demonstrations and connection and explore together what is possible. We invite you to send proposals for presentations. Bring digital images of your recent work and we’ll create an evening of showcasing our work.

For more info and to register please contact us.

Presenters and facilitators (openings still available):
Meror Krayenhoff, SIRE Wall, Salt Spring Island
Mark Lakeman, Communitecture, Portland
Elke Cole, Houses that love you back, Vancouver Island
Brandy Gallagher, O.U.R.ECOVILLAGE, Shawnigan Lake
Pat Hennebery, Cobworks, Mayne Island
Gord Baird, Eco-sense, Victoria
William McKay, Yoga, Cowichan Station

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