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Food Skills Workshops
Resources for Community Organizations in Newfoundland & Labrador
Resources for Community Organizations in Newfoundland & Labrador
The Food Skills Workshops were created by Food First NL, based on the 4 P's of Local Food. They are a series of workshops covering 8 different food skills, and are intended to be a resource for community groups and individuals across the province to help build knowledge and confidence of healthy, traditional food skills in their communities.
The 4 P's of Local Food was coined by Neil Tilley who was a community organizer, advocate for rural NL, and organic farmer. Food First NL uses the 4 P's in his memory and inspired by the causes he cared about like sustainability and community development in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The 4 P's are Planting, Picking, Preparing, and Preserving. Together they include how to grow food, harvest it, make healthy meals from it, and preserve it for future use.
Click below to download the Food Skills Workshops. Each Workshop file contains an introduction and appendices section that is common to all eight workshops.
Food First NL regularly partners with community groups to host workshops. If you'd like to host a Food Skills Workshop in you community, please be in touch if we can be of further assistance. You can reach us at info@foodfirstnl.ca or call (709) 237-4026.
Planting: How to Grow Food
Picking: How to Harvest Cultivated & Wild Foods
Preparing: How to Prepare Healthy Meals
Preserving: How to Store and Preserve Food
These workshops are in PDF format. Adobe Reader is required to open them.
These workshops were created with funding support from:
Provincial Wellness Grant Program, Health Promotion and Wellness Division, Department of Health and Community Services, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Job Creation Partnership Program, Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Best Practices Toolkits
The Best Practices Toolkits were developed by Food First NL to assist community organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador in starting bulk buying clubs, community gardens, community kitchens, and farmers' markets.
They outline key steps and provide a range of tools and supports that will help you organize a program that suits your particular group’s needs and are based on best practices research drawn from a review of existing reports, resources, and guides, with particular attention to resources from Newfoundland and Labrador. Each toolkit includes a bibliography which lists the materials consulted in this review. This research was enhanced by consultations with organizers and participants of these initiatives from across Newfoundland and Labrador and elsewhere in Canada.
DOWNLOAD THE TOOLKITS:
Bulk Buying Club Best Practices Toolkit
Community Garden Best Practices Toolkit
Community Kitchen Best Practices Toolkit
Farmers' Market Best Practices Toolkit
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES
To complement the Best Practices Toolkits, Food First NL has created two additional sets of resources:
Farmers Market Food Safety Handbooks
Since the Best Practices Toolkits were released, the province released the new Public Market Guidelines dealing with food safety. Food First NL created companion handbooks for market organizers and vendors to help support food safe practices in Farmers Markets across NL. Download the handbooks here:
Farmers' Market Organizer Food Safety Handbook
Farmers' Market Vendor Food Safety Handbook
Funding was provided by the Poverty Reduction Division, Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment, and the Health Promotion & Wellness Division, Department of Health and Community Services of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for the development of the Best Practices Toolkits and Presentation Series.
Funding was provided by the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program through the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for the development of the Farmers' Market Food Safety Handbooks.
Cooking Posters
How do you measure a kilogram of flour if you don't have a scale? How can you save money and still plan healthy meals? How much cooked rice is an uncooked cup going to make? If you've asked yourself these questions, or others like them, you know the answer isn't always easy to find in the middle of preparing food.
These five posters, developed in conjunction with Food First NL's Food Security Coordinators in Nunatsiavut, are designed to help make food shopping and cooking easier. They tackle five different areas: how to shop with a recipe, how much you will have after cooking, how long your food will last, how to easily substitute ingredients, and how to plan your meals in order to save money.
