From My Bottom Step

W3: Poverty In Ontario

I’ve just discovered another website that I feels deserves some recognition. Poverty In Ontario: Hungry For Answers is an excellent counterpoint to the Liberal government’s spin about how much more compassionate they’ve been to people living in poverty compared to their predecessors. Continue Reading

City Farming Network Cocktail Party

London City Farm Network invites Londoners to a fundraiser “Happy Hour” at the Convent Garden Market to support London’s first urban agricultural farm located in the farm fields of Fanshawe Pioneer Village. LCFN grows heirloom and open pollinated – rare varieties of vegetables to support paid summer employment for at risk youth in our city. Vegetables are grown organically and sold at local markets and restaurants. London City Farm is … Continue Reading

ReLocalizing Our Food Supply

We have a problem. The good news is these problems have a solution.

Climate & Energy Meetup

Post-Carbon London sponsors this get-together, every month at the East Village Coffee House (785 Dundas Street E.).

Come out to talk to others who are interested in local food, alternative transportation, and various other activities supported by Post-Carbon London. We focus on global warming, peak oil, and other problems resulting from fossil fuel consumption.

Everyone is welcome.

Glen Cairn Breakfast Club

The Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre serves breakfast for members of the community on Tuesdays, and the cost is only 50 cents.

If you have any questions please call 519-668-2745 or e-mail nfletcher@gccrc.ca

Spudapalooza – Community Dinner

SPUDAPALOOZA!!! A community dinner where baked potatoes will be served – with a twist.

That’s right friends it will be baked potatoes with a buffet of toppings:

Cheese – we got it!
Spicy seasoning – we got it!
Chilli – we got it!
Bacon bits – you know we got it!

We got more topping than Mr. Potatoe Head!!!!

W3: Slow Food

You’re familiar with the concept of “fast food”, right? Well, the “slow food” movement is it’s nemesis and is said to have begun in Italy in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant.

From that beginning, a Slow Food organization now exists with +100,000 members in +130 countries. Continue Reading

2010 London Wine & Food Show

Community Events Calendar is a free public service of FMBS.

Does Ronald McDonald Have High Blood Pressure?

It’s a fair question.

CP Holiday Train

The CP Holiday Train will be making its way to London next Wednesday, December 2.