Celebrating food, farms & gardens

Nutrition Month may be officially over but I forgot (!) to publish this post last week, so here it is now, a little late but still timely.

That all people in the community, at all times, have access to nutritious, safe, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate foods, produced in ways that are environmentally sound and socially just.

Richmond Food Security Society's Mandate

To help my knowledge keep pace with my passion for food security & environmental sustainability, on March 12th I attended the Richmond Food Security Society's Conference where I listened to stories that inspired and informed me.

After the sessions, I did some research to learn more about the speakers & their projects. If you're interested in food security and sustainability issues or setting up a healthy school lunch program or school garden project, I encourage you to check out the following resources:

Food For All – Making Food Security more Inclusive (Jelica Shaw, Claudia Li, Cease Wysse)

Oskayak Garden Project

Shark Truth

Farm 2 School & Food Gardens: How to advocate for healthy food in our schools (Joanne Bays & Michael Wolfe)

Farm to School

Food Gardens in Richmond - School Year Garden Toolkit

A.S.P.E.N.'s Clinical Nutrition Week 2011, Vancouver, Canada

(I'm attending this conference in my home city but it's in a part of downtown I rarely visit so I feel -- and am behaving -- a bit like a tourist.)

I'm happily immersed in the information & setting. Both have been incredibly inspiring. I'll share highlights from the talks as soon as I process my notes. But for now, here's what I look at between the sessions:

Canada Place

Vancouver Convention Centre & view of Coal Harbour

Stanley Park

Digital Orca at the Convention Centre (Artist: Douglas Coupland)

Dietetic Preceptorship

Hello, just a quick message to let you know despite appearances The Dietitian's Journal is not on hiatus nor am I on a vacation (except for a couple of brief visits to Queen Elizabeth Park).

I've been involved in an intensive and rewarding mutual learning experience with a dietetic intern.  I'm trying to begin 2011 with focus rather than multi-tasking so during the intern's time with me, I've set aside reading and writing for this blog.

Yesterday I discovered a free continuing education course on Dietetic Preceptorship that I'd like to share with you.

Dietetics Preceptor Training Program (scroll down the page to view the course description; to view the content in detail, you will need to register)

The course looks relevant and well-structured so I'm looking forward to working through all the modules, especially the section on critical thinking.