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A vendor table setup under a white canopy in the sun. The table cloth is fall themed with orange and green leaves. There are small green plants in green, orange, and black plastic pots on the table on either end. In the middle there is a white metal mesh shelf with two shelves high; orange seed packs are on the table underneath, plants are on the first shelf up, and a poster with sunflowers is on the top shelf. The sunflower poster is missing petals to encourage donations as a means of adding more petals to each flower. Behind the table, there is a white sheet with a painting on it depicting two hands holding wheat and a sickle crossed in the middle. Surround the table is green grass, some small concrete walls, and one person in a white shirt with their back facing the camera.

A close up photo of the bottom shelf of a white metal mesh shelf on the fall themed table cloth from the previous photo. In front, there are two rows of six stacks of seeds and in each stack there are multiple seed packs bound by an elastic band. In the back left, there are two plastic bags of seeds, the front of which has a taped label saying mugwort on it, the back bag has a label saying sage on it. To the right, there are three more plastic bags of seeds all labelled hops 2024.

A sheet present at the event with a white background, semi transparent sunflowers around the edges, a green footer and the following writing typed on it. Sunflower Fundraiser Activity ittps://bit.ly/4cRUoCa ftpgrowerscoop@proton.me Instructions: 1. Fundraiser goal: $1800 (or equivalent in-kind donations) a. $1200 for accessible planter boxes from RGB Canada b. $400 for soil c. $200 for other materials: fertilizer, mulch, specialized tools, native seeds & seedlings, and trellises 2. 100% of the donations collected and items sold today will go toward the Coast Salish Food Initiative fundraiser 3. For every 10$ donated, 1 petal is added to the sunflower; our goal is to complete three big, luscious flowers! To donate, you have three options: a. Cash b. E-transfer: send to ftpgrowerscoop@proton.me with the memo 'Mayday donation' c. Online at Chuffed.org (see info sheet for QR code) 4. Once you've donated, pick the corresponding number of petals from the pouch, add your name (optional), and stick them to the flower a. For in-kind donations (materials, discounts, etc.), please add your name and donation description to a leaf and add it to the stem

A close up of the sunflower graphic from the first photo. A light blue background with three brown circles on it in a triangular pattern and dark green stems pointing straight down. The middle brown circle’s stem has two additional stems curving upwards with leaves attached to the ends with the names of donors on them (left: Modo Co-Op, Satinflower Nurseries; right: RGB Canada, Cicada Seeds). There are two additional leaves at the base of this flower’s stem that read West Coast Seeds and Gaia Green Organics. The sunflower on the lower right is completely full of yellow petals, the middle upper flower has about half of its petals on the top half of the flower, and the lower left flower has only two petals pointing out the top.

What a terrific turnout at the Mayday Social Justice Fair yesterday! We’re thrilled to have met so many great, likeminded community members.
We raised $164.55 yesterday for the Coast Salish Food Initiative, which puts us at $964.55 of our fundraiser. Thank you all for your generosity!

We’ll have a table here on Saturday! Come stop by and say hi 👋

Vancouver cuts school meal program funding, raising concerns about student hunger The federal government recently pledged $39.4 million over three years to expand school food programs across more than 1,000 B.C. schools.

CoV when cops want money: 🫡

Kids going hungry in schools: 🤷🏾‍♂️

photo of a table with a metal tray holding 7 rows of 5 peat pellets each. Each row is labelled with the name of a tomato variety, including cherry tomatoes, romas, heirlooms. At the top of each row are individual seed packs labelled with the FTP growers co-op stamp

Photo of two metal trays in an indoor shelf greenhouse. Metal trays contain rows of seed starter peat pellets with little yellow labels with various tomato and veggie names on them. All are moist, but no seedlings have sprouted yet.

Tomato and veggie seedlings have been started last night (many more are on the way from other greenhouses)! Watching these babies grow is 10/10 riveting

[alt text: video of a 3D printing machine moving back and forth printing an orange plastic sign. The angle of the video is so far down you can’t quite read the sign being printed, purposely concealing a mysterious design]

[alt text: three images of a box- 1. Closed box with words on a sticker saying Donation to: Feed the People Co-Op, 2. Larger box opened revealing a smaller box inside with West Coast Seeds label on it, 3. Open West Coast Seeds box with ~150 seed packs inside]

Brewing up some info boards for our abundance of gardens this year! Growing things is fantastic, but the planning and creation in anticipation is equally as satisfying

We just received a huge donation of seeds from West Coast Seeds! Look at this box! Donations like these are so important to get food grown and given out to the community 🤝

Support the Coast Salish Indigenous Food Initiative This project is going to support the efforts of a Coast Salish matriarch who is working to transform their yard into a food garden to feed their multi-generational household and surrounding urban comm...

Check out this project we’re working on to help build a community garden! If you have some funds to spare, please consider donating, and if you can’t, please share!