Greetings!
Food Matters Manitoba is cultivating leaders on food security.
It's what we do. Here are some ways we are doing it.
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In this issue:
Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day, Food Matters is Hiring
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Updated Indigenous Food Map Launched
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Traditional foods are known to not only have significant nutritional benefits, but also cultural and spiritual benefits.
Use this map to source fresh berries in season, wild rice, bison, elk, venison, rabbit, fish and other traditional foods.
This resource focuses on traditional foods that are indigenous to Manitoba, as they vary throughout Canada.
Eating a Healthy Anishinaabe Plate is another feature of the map, with Anishinaabe options for a healthy diet.
The map can be shared, printed and circulated freely.
The map prints best on legal paper (11"x17") if you have it. Interested in producing large numbers? Contact us for a higher resolution version. (info@foodmattersmanitoba.ca)
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Northern Youth Find Spirituality on the Land
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Celebrate June 21 by joining filmmaker Jacob Bird, one of the participants who documented FMM’s northern youth gathering in this moving short video.
"Programs like this help me restore the link and reconcile with the lost traditions of my people."
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Jacob Bird, Film Maker
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Building knowledge, skill and pride in young people is key to Indigenous food sovereignty. Deepening cultural wisdom and practices related to food (harvesting, growing, preserving, sharing, appreciating) promotes community and individual healing and improves availability nutritious food.
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youth involved in deer harvest in Crane River, learning skills for being on the land
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Is this YOU?
or someone you know?
Please spread the word.
Deadline for applications is July 3, 2020
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We are hiring: Development Coordinator
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Experience in marketing, communications, or public relations. Demonstrated success raising money with grants and donor campaigns
Creative abilities with newsletters, websites, writing projects, layout oversight
Familiar with food security issues
Looking to be part of a terrific work team and meaningful work
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tomato seedlings in newly repaired greenhouse
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Gardening Fever Strikes the North
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Communities across the north are digging in and getting dirty this spring and looking forward to a delicious harvest in the fall.
Demian Lawrenchuk, our Northern Coordinator, has been hard at work helping communities to get plants, the infrastructure (greenhouses and soil) and the inspiration to join the movement.
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“We planted over 20 berry plants (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries) in the rain today. It was good because there were no bugs!”
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With your help, these programs are possible.
Join us NOW as a leader in building a Manitoba where good food nourishes strong communities and healthy people.
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Fresh Greens on the shelf in Norway House
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A converted shipping container is growing fresh produce for the eager shoppers in Norway House. "Never thought it would happen in my lifetime," said one amazed resident.
Even with the cost of the unit and the energy bills required to keep the farm warm, the system can be more economical than shipping produce thousands of kilometres.
The venture is a partnership of
Norway House Cree Nation, Kinosao Sipi Business Development Corporation, Western Diversification, BDO Canada LLP and Food Matters Manitoba.
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High praise for FMM Videos and Infographics
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Designed to accompany the Food Insecurity videos is a series of Infographics which can be downloaded and used freely.
The handouts (Household Food Insecurity in Manitoba, Why Are Manitobans Food Insecure?, and Ways to Address Food Insecurity) provide easy to understand, bite sized data corresponding to the 3 video themes.
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Hundreds of people have been accessing and using the powerful
Food Insecurity in Manitoba
videos Food Matters launched recently.
"I really appreciate the intersectional approach to understanding food insecurity (how income, access to transportation, etc play role). I also really appreciate the diversity of those who shared their stories."
Each of the 5 minute long videos is focused on an aspect of Food Insecurity in our province: Experiences, Causes and Solutions to tell the Manitoba story.
"The videos are very well done and really hit on so many important components of food insecurity. I shared them with dietitians across the province ... and am happy to continue sharing and promoting them."
There is a version with English sub-titles and one with French subtitles.
"These would be great introductory videos for classes (of a variety of ages) or organizations of all kinds."
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Cultivating Leadership on Food Security
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