SPF: Food

SPF: Food /sustainability/taxonomy/term/624/all en SP0035: Campus Crops 2 /sustainability/sp0035-campus-crops-2 Status: COMPLETED Summer 2011 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 01:31:12 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2189 at /sustainability SP0072: Campus Crops 3 /sustainability/sp0072-campus-crops-3 Status: COMPLETED Summer 2012 <div> <div> In 2012, the Campus Crops 3 project used resources from the SPF to hire a summer garden coordinator, replant the gardens, build and irrigation system, and conduct workshops throughout the summer. Campus Crops continues to be a visible presence on the ƻ��Ժ campus and a vital part of a closed-loop food production system on campus.</div></div> Tue, 07 Jul 2015 01:29:44 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2188 at /sustainability SP0108: Campus Crops 4 /sustainability/sp0108-campus-crops-4 Status: COMPLETED Summer 2013 <div> In 2013, The SPF-funded position of garden coordinator for 2013, apart from day-to-day garden maintenance, will focus on designing a training manual in conjunction with a training workshop for new volunteers, as well as producing an exit report with recommendations on gardening and the general structure of the collective.</div> Tue, 09 Jun 2015 04:34:08 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2180 at /sustainability SP0145: Bellairs Research Institute Greenhouse /sustainability/sp0145-bellairs-research-institute-greenhouse Status: COMPLETED Summer 2015 - Summer 2016 <div> <div> The Bellairs Research Institute Greenhouse project involves the construction of a sustainable tropical greenhouse at ƻ��Ժ’s Barbadian Campus. This greenhouse will be used to produce fruits, vegetables and other native edible plants for use in food production at the Institute.</div></div> Sun, 31 May 2015 22:47:05 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2173 at /sustainability SP0137: Sustainability and Waste Education /sustainability/sp0137-sustainability-and-waste-education Status: COMPLETED Jan 2015 - December 2015 The “Sustainability &amp; Waste Education Campaign” organizes ƻ��Ժ students to work as educators across all ƻ��Ժ Residence cafeterias. It implements organic waste collection programs in all of the MORE houses, and focuses on building the culture of composting at ƻ��Ժ, making the issue of waste management more relevant to all students at ƻ��Ժ. Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:03:19 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2106 at /sustainability SP0121: Permaculture Classes /sustainability/sp0121-permaculture-classes Status: COMPLETED January 2013 - May 2014 <div> The 'Permaculture Classes' project implemented a new curriculum surrounding the practice of purmaculture at ƻ��Ժ's Macdonald Campus. The classes consisted of 8 sessions, held on alternate Saturdays from January to April 201, during which student were introduced to the permaculture principles and applications, and discovered the growing movement of permaculture projects already happening in Montréal.</div> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:10:20 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1917 at /sustainability SP0122: Out of the Garden 3 /sustainability/out-garden-3-sp0122 Status: COMPLETED January 2013 - January 2014 <div> The 'Out-of-the-Garden Project' (OGP) originally established a student-run café on Macdonald Campus which serves breakfast and lunch once a week with ingredients sourced locally from ƻ��Ժ student farming projects. With their third round of funding, the OGP purchased ingredients and kitchen supplies that allowed them to double their production and offer their meals twice a week in the Winter 2014 semester.</div> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:14:33 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1913 at /sustainability SP0125: Market Cooperative /sustainability/sp0125-market-cooperative Status: COMPLETED February 2013 - November 2015 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:01:13 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1905 at /sustainability SP0100: Farm to School /sustainability/sp0100-farm-school Status: COMPLETED Summer 2013 Macdonald Campus' 'Farm-to-School' project is a fun and innovative programme that teaches schoolchildren to value and appreciate the food they eat as they learn, hands-on, about its production from seed to table. The project is a co-operative educational venture between ƻ��Ժ students and the children of Joseph-Henrico elementary school of Baie-d'Urfé. Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:25:15 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1899 at /sustainability SP0129: Plate Club /sustainability/plate-club-sp0129 Status: COMPLETED February 2014 - Winter 2017 The Plate Club is a service on campus that offers the free use of quality reusable dishware and utensils in place of disposable, typically paper or Styrofoam, items. The Plate Club offers their inventory to members of the ƻ��Ժ community in the SSMU cafeteria, and to groups holding events; their ultimate goal being to reduce waste while promoting sustainability and awareness on campus. Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:10:51 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1895 at /sustainability SP0134: Les Poules du Campus Macdonald /sustainability/sp0134-les-poules-du-campus-macdonald Status: COMPLETED May 2014 - Fall 2015 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:48:28 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1885 at /sustainability SP0135: Macdonald Campus Druids /sustainability/macdonald-campus-druids-sp0135 Status: COMPLETED Macdonald Campus Druids is a project which expands the capacity of MSEG's (Macdonald's Student-run Ecological Garden) fields to grow spices and herbs for production of a variety of retail plants and food products. Locally grown, pre-packaged dry spices/herbs, teas, and the plants used to make them will be available to buy in bulk at campus markets, along with a booklet and workshops that educate the student community on their properties and medicinal uses. Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:30:05 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1883 at /sustainability SP0136: Thomson House Community Garden /sustainability/sp0136-thomson-house-community-garden Status: COMPLETED March 2015 'Thomson House Community Garden' is a project which expands the existing garden bed infrastructure of Thomson House grounds with the addition of a community container garden, furthering the mandate of the PGSS Sustainability Action Plan and Environment Committee. Several summer and fall workshops will share resources and teach the skills needed for success in small-scale urban agriculture. Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:52:01 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1881 at /sustainability SP0120: B-Shack /sustainability/b-shack-sp0120 Status: CANCELLED Approved Summer 2013 B-shack is an outreach, education and research hub anchored with a pavilion at the Macdonald Farm designed, fabricated and assembled by a diverse group of students to creatively engage the extended ƻ��Ժ community and the citizens of Montreal in addressing the imminent threat to the world food supply by honeybee colony collapse disorder (CCD). The SPF provided the means to construct a wooden pavilion with a steel structure that contains beehives at Macdonald Campus. Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:00:33 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1759 at /sustainability SP0118: MSEG Root Crop Washer /sustainability/mseg-root-crop-washer-sp0118 Status: COMPLETED October 2013 - 2017 The ƻ��Ժ Student Ecological Garden operates a 1 1/4 acre farm on the Macdonald Campus to produce local food stuffs from various different crops and farm animals. The MSEG Root Crop Washer is a small-scale root crop (carrots, turnips etc.) washing machine that the organization uses to increase the efficiency and efficacy of the produce cleaning process while decreasing the amount of physical exertion required. Tue, 25 Mar 2014 03:40:32 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1756 at /sustainability