Community Food Mentor Program
The PEI Community Food Mentors Program (CFMP) is a community capacity-building initiative that seeks to address food security by rebuilding food knowledge and skills in the community through a train the trainer model.
Participants in the program enhance their own food skills/knowledge, and also receive facilitation training so they can spearhead a community food action. Graduates take what they learned and share it with their networks of influence through community food actions.
The CFMP has proven to be a powerful shared learning experience that increases community engagement related to food security, food skills and knowledge, and intersecting subjects or causes such as health and climate.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together".
Past food literacy workshops
The Food Exchange gives workshops on growing, cooking and preserving food. Upcoming workshops are posted on the facebook site Food Exchange PEI. Some of our past workshops include:
Edible Gardening for Beginners - a series of garden skill workshops presented through the growing season.
A series of fermenting workshops in collaboration with Heart Beet Organics, a local farm producing fermented food and drinks.
A series of six session bi-weekly food skills workshop in collaboration with the PEI Organic Producers Co op.
Pressure canning workshop in collaboration with Bernardin Home Canning.
A series of preserving workshops using the water bath method in collaboration with the Salvation Army.
Edible Gardening for Beginners - a series of garden skill workshops presented through the growing season.
A series of fermenting workshops in collaboration with Heart Beet Organics, a local farm producing fermented food and drinks.
A series of six session bi-weekly food skills workshop in collaboration with the PEI Organic Producers Co op.
Pressure canning workshop in collaboration with Bernardin Home Canning.
A series of preserving workshops using the water bath method in collaboration with the Salvation Army.
The PEI Food Exchange food skills workshops:
- feature produce grown locally by diverse, mostly organic, farms
- use ingredients from local sustainable food producers wherever possible
- promote whole food and cooking methods that retain the maximum nutritional value
- provide recipes that consider the cost and local availability of ingredients
- reintroduces traditional ways of preserving food to promote self reliance
- zero food waste policy
- encourage sharing of knowledge
- are free - donations (of money, ingredients, food sharing, equipment) are welcome
- are fun.
Posters from some of our past events
Herb Day (2014 - 2019)
