Medium: Media Coverage of Climate Change during COVID-19
By Jacqueline Chan on February 1, 2021
Media Coverage of Climate Change during COVID-19
News Source: Medium
January 28, 2021
“Efforts are needed to put climate change back on the agenda and in the spotlight in media outlets worldwide.” – Dr. Zia Mehrabi
Dr. Zia Mehrabi, CSFS Associate and researcher at the IRES (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability), wrote about how climate change was covered in the media during the pandemic. Coverage about COVID-19 has dominated news outlets in 2020, but climate change is another important challenge that needs to be addressed to maintain the health and wellbeing of people and the planet.
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By karolina skupien on January 19, 2021
*Online* Veggie Gardening 101
About this Workshop
Always wanted to learn how to grow your food but don’t know where to start? Have you tried but been met with frustration? This beginners-level gardening workshop will go over all the basics you need to know to start growing your own organic vegetables: Soil care basics, planting (from seed and transplanting), watering, fertility, harvesting, plant health, troubleshooting, and information about the most common vegetable plant families and what they need to thrive.
About the Instructor
Mik Turje has been working in community food and agriculture for over a decade. First as a small-scale organic farmer on Vancouver Island and in Richmond where they grew a variety of veggies for farmers markets, CSA’s and high-end grocery stores. Then as a community development worker in the food and urban agriculture movements. Mik was the Urban Agriculture Coordinator at The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto for many years, where they taught a full slate of gardening workshops and mentored new gardeners, and also ran the Renfrew-Collingwood Food Security Institute for 3 years. Although Mik is now a social worker working in healthcare, they enjoy teaching gardening workshops on the side.
Date and Time
Thursday, March 18| 6:00 – 8:30 pm PST (2.5 hours)
Online via Zoom
Link will be shared with registrants via email approximately 1-3 days prior to the workshop. Please note that our workshops are not recorded.
Cost
$15 + GST (non-refundable)
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By karolina skupien on January 19, 2021
*Online* Starting Your Own Seedlings
About this Workshop
Save money, and grow a wider variety of garden veggies by starting your own seedlings! This workshop will go over everything you need to know to start your own vegetable seedlings: From what soil to use, to moisture and light requirements, to troubleshooting, and building your own DIY seedling setup.
About the Instructor
Mik Turje has been working in community food and agriculture for over a decade. First as a small-scale organic farmer on Vancouver Island and in Richmond where they grew a variety of veggies for farmers markets, CSA’s and high-end grocery stores. Then as a community development worker in the food and urban agriculture movements. Mik was the Urban Agriculture Coordinator at The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto for many years, where they taught a full slate of gardening workshops and mentored new gardeners, and also ran the Renfrew-Collingwood Food Security Institute for 3 years. Although Mik is now a social worker working in healthcare, they enjoy teaching gardening workshops on the side.
Date and Time
Thursday, March 11| 6:00 – 8:00 pm PST (2 hours)
Online via Zoom
Link will be shared with registrants via email approximately 1-3 days prior to the workshop. Please note that our workshops are not recorded.
Cost
$15 + GST (non-refundable)
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By karolina skupien on January 19, 2021
*Online* How to Make Chai – Indian Spiced Tea
About this Workshop
Learn how to make authentic Indian chai in the comfort of your own kitchen. Understand the history of this drink, and the medical properties of the spices that it is made with. We will explore a few different variations of chai from different parts of India. Leave with a recipe sheet and the skills to concoct the perfect chai for your unique mind-body according to the principles of Ayurveda. In this workshop, participants will be welcomed and encouraged (but not required) to make the product during the workshop. An ingredient list will be sent in advance.
About the Instructor
Muneera Wallace is an Ayurveda health coach with over 18 years of experience in living and sharing Ayurveda. She is passionate about bringing the traditional wisdom of Ayurveda to our modern context in a simple and practical way. She enjoys a wellness practice on the unceded lands of the Coastal First Nations in Vancouver BC, and also runs an online group program on Ayurvedic living and cultivating better daily habits.
Date and Time
Thursday, March 4| 6:00 – 7:30 pm PST (1.5 hours)
Online via Zoom
Link will be shared with registrants via email approximately 1-3 days prior to the workshop. Please note that our workshops are not recorded.
Cost
$15 + GST (non-refundable)
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By karolina skupien on January 19, 2021
*Online* Herbal Medicine for Immune/Respiratory and Stress Support
Herbal Medicine for Respiratory and Stress Support
About this Workshop
Given the current global pandemic, this workshop comes as a timely and relevant information session to address the various plants that may be potentially useful. During this workshop, we will look at herbs that are known anti-virals and immune stimulants, as well as those that bring symptomatic relief such as respiratory herbs, fever reducers and stress relief. We will discuss how anti-viral plants are best employed and view plants as they grow. Preventative herbs that may complement proper COVID protocol will be looked at. Please note that this information does not replace professional help during COVID-19 or any other serious epidemic.
About the Instructor
Sarah Orlowski is a Master Herbalist and has her Permaculture Design Certificate. She co-runs a permaculture orchard and medicinal herb farm in the Southern Interior of BC, where she makes herbal remedies & trains student apprentices. Their organic farm is certified with Kootenay Mountain Grown. She has a private clinical practice, where she gives health consultations and treatments. An experienced instructor, Sarah believes that growing and living in accordance with Nature is the sustainable way of the future.
Date and Time
Thursday, February 18 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm PST (2 hours)
Online via Zoom
Link will be shared with registrants via email approximately 1-3 days prior to the workshop. Please note that our workshops are not recorded.
Cost
$15 + GST (non-refundable)
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By karolina skupien on January 19, 2021
*Online* Cooking Demonstration: A Family Chinese New Year — the Traditional Cantonese Way
About this Workshop
Join Eddy Ng and his daughter, Vanessa, as they welcome you to their family home for Chinese New Year. As immigrants from Hong Kong, Eddy and his wife Sophia came to Vancouver in the late 1960s and started their family in Canada. Vanessa, their daughter, is first-generation Chinese-Canadian and together, they’ll share with you the history of Chinese New Year, present a traditional Cantonese-style dinner, and demonstrate how to make two traditional dishes: spring roll, and BBQ pork. Both dishes hold cultural significance for the new year, but are crowd-pleasing favourites year round.
In this workshop, you will receive the recipes for these two featured dishes in the demonstration, learn the meanings behind these culinary traditions for Chinese New Year, and follow along on how to assemble spring rolls. The provided recipe for the spring rolls is vegetarian. The BBQ pork requires an overnight marination, so not all of the steps will be presented during the workshop. The goal, however, is to demonstrate the process for both dishes so you, too, can enjoy these traditional Cantonese dishes in your own home.
About the Instructor
Eddy Ng has been cooking since the age of 16. Born in Macau and raised in Hong Kong, he grew up cooking traditional Chinese dishes. Since immigrating to Canada in 1969, he’s had a long and fulfilling pharmaceutical sales career alongside an avid passion for authentic home cooking. Eddy has been teaching demonstration-style Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai cooking classes locally in Vancouver for the last ten years. His daughter, Vanessa, also an avid home cook, has adopted Dad’s passion for all things food as well.
Date and Time
Thursday, February 11| 6:00 – 8:00 pm PST (2 hours)
Online via Zoom
Link will be shared with registrants via email approximately 1-3 days prior to the workshop. Please note that our workshops are not recorded.
Cost
$15 + GST (non-refundable)
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By Jacqueline Chan on January 7, 2021
Why one PhD student wants everyone to learn about food systems, equity and justice
News Source: National Observer, The Star
January 6, 2021
“When we think of the food bank, we’re not necessarily thinking that people who use the food bank should have a say in the decisions or the kinds of services offered or the kinds of food provided. The dominant discourse is that people experiencing poverty should just be grateful and thankful. I think this reproduces a system that treats people like objects.” – Colin Dring
National Observer and The Star spoke with Colin Dring (a UBC PhD candidate in agricultural planning) about food justice and accessibility. He helped launch an educational resource called Just Food, which was created with former Work-Learn students Meryn Corkery and Joyce Liao. Colin discusses the lack of diversity in B.C.’s food discourse, and how we can work towards a more equitable food system.
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By Jacqueline Chan on January 5, 2021
National Observer: Plant-Based Meats and Sustainability
“Industrial agriculture is associated with myriad environmental impacts, from nitrous oxide emissions tied to excessive fertilizer use to hurting pollinators through habitat destruction.”
Dr. Navin Ramankutty, CSFS Associate and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change and Food Security, recently gave input in The National Observer regarding the sustainability of plant-based meats.
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By Jacqueline Chan on January 5, 2021
National Observer: Effects of COVID-19 on Food Security and Mental Health
“We know that there’s this co-existence of food insecurity and mental health problems. It’s a feedback loop, where one makes the other worse.”
Dr. Jennifer Black, CSFS Associate and LFS Professor, recently commented in The National Observer about the impacts of COVID-19 on two related topics, food security and mental health.
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By Jacqueline Chan on December 16, 2020
The Star and IndigiNews:
How this birth worker carries on the teachings of her great grandmother
“The foods that we eat — the pieces of the land, the berries, the fish, and the roots — get transformed into our food, which transforms into our bodies, all of our cells and DNA, and that gets passed down generation to generation through birth.”
The Star and IndigiNews featured the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden at the UBC Farm, a.k.a. as the Indigenous Health Research and Education Garden. The name xʷc̓ic̓əsəm means “the place where we grow” in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the traditional language spoken by the Musqueam people whose unceded lands the garden resides on.
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