Grand Forks and Boundary Regional Agricultural Society is pleased to announce their latest project – Senior Boundary Growers.
With funding from New Horizons for seniors, the Ag Society is partnering with many local groups to encourage seniors to share their knowledge and skills with local communities. Whether it is when to plant, how to store, how to can, how to dehydrate, and long-passed-down remedies, the society would like to record them to share with future generations. A Root Cellar tour was arranged, for the interested, which was most educational, finding old cellars and studying the different methods of storing food used in the past.
The Senior Boundary Growers also provides lunches of locally grown food and speakers of interest to seniors. There have been local produced lunches from Beaverdell to Midway with many interesting local speakers coming to share their life experiences.
The Senior Boundary Growers are also planning opportunities for food-sharing such as grow-a-row for those in need.
Gardens in Midway, Rock Creek and Grand Forks have all made progress. Food Share Group in Rock Creek has done a tremendous job of helping feed the hungry – young and old.
In the next months a series of presentations will be made to the various groups throughout the region. If you would like to join in the activities or we have missed your group please contact us.
