Jul 18th, 2009
by Colin Anderson.
Friday September 18th – Sunday September 20th
Get ready for a knee-slapping good time in the Heart of the Pembina Valley at the eighth perenial Harvest Moon Festival in Clearwater, Manitoba (Map Here). This year’s festival will again feature the best in local musical talent, tasty local food, hands-on workshops and good times. Details on the line-up will be made available on the festival section of our site (here) as it all comes together.
Tickets will be available in August in Winnipeg at Mondragon, Organic Planet, Eat it.ca and in Clearwater at Wallis Grocery and Clearwater Restaurant and in Brandon at Two Farm Kids. We almost sold out last year so get your tickets early, only 1,000 available!
Posted in: Uncategorized.
Jul 13th, 2009
by Colin Anderson.
You may have an accountant, a doctor, or even a lawyer, but do you have a farmer – someone you can identify as providing you or your family with local, safe, healthy and nutritious food?
The HMLFI is a group of 10 farm families and 2 family-owned meat shops located in the beautiful Pembina Valley in southwestern Manitoba who believe:
- in healthy land and healthy communities;
- that everyone should have access to local, tasty and healthy farm fresh food;
- farmers should be paid a fair price for growing this food;
- in a more small-scale, sustainable and fair food system that better serves the interests of the land, our families and local communities; and
- that we all have an important role to play in order to make this happen, including you!
Please also visit the Harvest Moon Food website (local food) at www.harvestmoonfood.ca to learn about how to support local farmers in a small scale food system.
Posted in: Harvest Moon Projects.
Tagged: Local Food; Harvest Moon Society; Who's your farmer
May 29th, 2009
by Colin Anderson.
Saturday June 27th, 2009
1:00-4:30pm
Clearwater, Manitoba
Click Here to Download Invitation and Map
Agenda
1:00 pm – Welcome and Greetings – Trailhead Sign (Clearwater Sports Park)
Alexis Knispel and Jo-Lene Gardiner, Harvest Moon Society
1:30pm – Lessons from the Land Trail Hike
2:30pm – Reception and light lunch – Harvest Moon Learning Centre
Featuring: Food from the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative
Local Entertainment
Meet our project partners:
*Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative
*S. Dangerfield Interpretive Planning
*Pembina Valley Conservation District
*Manitoba Agro-Woodlot Program, MAFRI
*Clearwater Architecture Studio
4:00pm – Thank You and Wrap-Up
Posted in: Events.
Tagged: Harvest Moon · Lessons From the Land · Trail
Mar 13th, 2009
by Colin Anderson.
The current trend of the building industry to move towards “sustainable” construction practices is an important step towards achieving a meaningful and balanced relationship with the environment. However, the focus of this movement is based on new architecture and construction projects currently being developed. What is not being discussed however is hidden potential within the vast majority of the existing buildings in our urban and rural landscapes.
Click Here to Learn about the Architecture Studio Projects
Posted in: General, Harvest Moon Projects.
Vision
A world in which healthy land and communities are celebrated by all, leading to equitable food systems, a sense of place, and care for the environment now and in generations to come.
Mission
To develop a learning center that works toward strengthening and building linkages between urban and rural areas, empowering communities while creating strategies and infrastructure to sustain community and environment. This will be carried out using a diversity of tactics focused on grassroots and participatory practices.
The learning centre is located on the site of the former Clearwater School, purchased from the Prairie Spirit School Division.
The motto for the HMS is “Healthy Land, Healthy Communities”
More about the Harvest Moon Society
By implementing participatory initiatives, the Harvest Moon Society (HMS) hopes to build “Healthy Land and Healthy Communities”. For the past four years, the HMS has consulted and worked with local residents of Clearwater, Manitoba, to develop an action plan for long-term rural environmental and economic sustainability. This work has consisted of volunteer organized community meetings, vision, mission and objective workshops and the development of eco-agricultural education and training at the local elementary school.
In order to leave our communities as better places for future generations we need to reconnect urban and rural communities by building awareness of the contributions of farmers and farmlands to the development of vibrant rural and urban cultures and the maintenance of native habitats.
The HMS saw the need to celebrate rural communities and as a result has held a festival every year since 2002. The Harvest Moon Festival is held annually in the fall and has been successful in bringing together urban and rural people to share in locally producer food, music and fun.
The School
The Harvest Moon Society operates out of the old Clearwater school. The school enables the group to hold various workshops and classes and acts as a hub for the group itself. The goal of the HMS is to renovate the school to accommodate large groups of people and to make it more compatible with its original surroundings. Future plans for the learning centre include: creating a summer kitchen, dorm rooms, yurts, gardens both ornamental and edible, as well as experimenting with other elements of permaculture design. It is also a goal of the society to try to create a number of community economic development ventures within the school. These plans would include a processing centre for flax and hemp seeds as well as a flour mill. A newly made adobe oven will serve everyone pizza and fresh bread this summer.
Posted in: General.
Tagged: about · mission · school · the society · vision
