Suzuki’s ‘Get Out the Vote’ will benefit Assiniboine Food Forest
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This article was published 16/10/2015 (3694 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Environmental activist David Suzuki will encourage Brandon voters to “Get Out the Vote” tonight.
Suzuki will take the stage at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium at 7 p.m.
“‘Get Out the Vote!’ is Suzuki’s call to Manitoba citizens to get active locally, encourage all to vote, and insist that politicians pay attention to the critical issues of our time,” states the show description.
Brandon-Souris candidates have been invited to give brief presentations. Tickets are $15, with proceeds going to support Brandon’s Assiniboine Food Forest Incorporated (AFFI).
David Barnes spearheaded the Assiniboine Food Forest, which includes 10 acres of oak woods and another 30 acres of land on which the organization plans to recreate a natural habitat on what is now a cleared field.
“We want to gently and with permaculture techniques, reconstitute that into a thriving ecosystem once again,” Barnes said, adding they will also weave in fruit and nut-bearing trees.
Assiniboine Food Forest received unanimous support from city council in 2013, and was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation under the Corporations Act of Canada last year. Now it has a board of directors and continues to work with the city, as it has a five-year lease on the land.
“We are waiting to just iron out the final details of the project with the city, who owns it and with Manitoba Habitat Heritage (Corporation), who hold a conservation agreement on it,” Barnes said.
This fall, AFFI will be apply for charitable registration with Revenue Canada.
Barnes is passionate about the project, and is thrilled his “hero,” Suzuki, is on board.
“Where will the food come from, when — and I don’t say if, I say when — the system breaks down and doesn’t supply such volumes of cheap food,” Barnes said. “We really need to make food where we live, so this is where I really want to see my energies of my life go.”
The initiative will soon be launching a new website at assiniboinefoodforest.ca.
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