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Join Our Radish Community and Be Entered to Win A Bee-utiful Prize!

Image by: Lou Dahl. Lou loves capturing the natural world in visual form, and finding the unique in the common. You can explore more of her illustration, photography, and design work at www.loudahl.com or @loudahlillustration.

It’s a hive of activity around here as we launch our 3rd Annual Bee Sweet campaign to celebrate our amazing monthly donors, the Champion Radishes!

Throughout February and March if you:

  • become a monthly donor

  • recommend someone who becomes a monthly donor

  • or increase your monthly contribution

…you’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win an amazing prizzze pack. 

Champion Radishes give monthly to Growing Chefs and provide us with a steady stream of income. This income keeps our hive running sustainably, facilitates program planning and implementation, and lowers administrative costs.

We hope to engage a total of 120 Champion Radishes by the end of 2023.

 Join the club before March 31st and be entered to win the Bee Sweet Prize Pack valued at over $250, full of local goodies.

Give us a hive-five and join our community of monthly donors today. It would bee sweet if you joined us!

Deadline to enter: March 31st at midnight
Prize draw: April 1st

A big thank you to our generous prize pack sponsors:

From Farms to Forks is Back in Person!

You're invited! On November 6, 2022, at 5:30 pm, we are holding our 13th annual From Farms to Forks harvest kitchen party. IN PERSON! From Farms to Forks pairs many of the province’s greatest chefs with B.C.'s finest growers and producers. Hosted in the dining room and teaching kitchens of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, guests watch the chefs in action, meet the growers, and enjoy delicious tasting plates* - each paired with a different wine from Mission Hill Family Estate Winery. This years' seated event includes an in-person silent and live auction for event attendees, as well as an online auction and raffle open to all of our supporters.

The aim is to raise $75,000 for Growing Chefs edible education programming and initiatives throughout the current school year supporting B.C. kids and their families.

Limited tickets are available for $250 each.

To avoid service fees:

Please notify us (afton@growingchefs.ca) if you're planning to purchase tickets outside of the online platform. Seating is limited and we don't want you to miss out.

* Many tasting plates will have a vegetarian alternative, however, the food may not be suitable for those who choose to eat vegan or have severe allergies. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

The Talented Chefs Behind From Farms to Forks

We have a premium selection of local chefs responsible for creating mouth-watering recipes for us to taste!

This Year's Bountiful Harvest is Courtesy of...

Each dish begins with high quality ingredients donated by some of B.C.'s most incredible growers and producers.

From Farms to Forks Sponsors

We’re grateful for the generous support of our sponsors who helped us put this event together. Click on the logos below to learn more about each of them!

Please Donate Today

If you're not able to attend our upcoming fundraising events, we ask that you consider making a donation to bring edible education to B.C. kids and youth!

Your gift will help build connections to the earth, local food systems, and with one another through edible education programs.

Growing Chefs is where kids’ connections to food take root.

Bee-friend us this February/March

Image by: Lou Dahl. Lou loves capturing the natural world in visual form, and finding the unique in the common. You can explore more of her illustration, photography, and design work at www.loudahl.com or @loudahlillustration.

We are buzzing to announce our 2nd Annual Bee Sweet campaign to celebrate our amazing monthly donors, the Champion Radishes! For the months of February and March, we invite you to join the club! 

Champion Radishes give monthly to Growing Chefs and provide us with a steady stream of income. This income keeps our hive running sustainably, facilitates program planning and implementation, and lowers administrative costs. We are starting this campaign with 101 Champion Radishes and we hope to get to 115 by the end of 2022.

 Join the club bee-fore March 31st and bee entered to win the “Bee Sweet Prize Pack” valued at over $250, full of Bee.C. goodies. Current Champion Radish Club members can also win by referring a new member, or increasing their monthly gift! 

Give us a hive-five and join our community of monthly donors today. It would bee sweet if you’d joined us!

Deadline to enter: March 31st at midnight
Prize draw: April 1st

A Prize Pack as Sweet as Honey!

Image by: Kar Harvey, an illustrator and writer who lives on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh people. She is Tsilhqot’in and Syilx and grew up on territories of the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen Nation…

Image by: Kar Harvey, an illustrator and writer who lives on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh people. She is Tsilhqot’in and Syilx and grew up on territories of the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen Nations.

It’s February! A month that is typically abuzz with love - for sweethearts, family, and community.

This month we kicked off our Bee Sweet campaign to celebrate all of our amazing monthly donor program, the Champion Radishes! Have you heard of our Champion Radish program? For the month of February and March, we invite you to join the club! 

Join the club this Feb/March and be entered to win the “Bee Sweet Prize Pack” valued at over $250, full of B.C. goodies. Current Champion Radish Club members can also win by referring a new member, or increasing their gift!

The deadline to enter, March 31st.
The prize draw is on April 2nd.

A big thank you to our generous prize pack sponsors:

Keep an eye out for more posts about some of our amazing Champion Radish members. 

Photo credit: Mavreen David PhotographyPlease note: The gift basket contains items that are not captured in this photo :)

Photo credit: Mavreen David Photography

Please note: The gift basket contains items that are not captured in this photo :)

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Growing Chefs! is Growing in Vancouver and Victoria. Join our team!

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Do you want to support healthy, sustainable and just food practices and systems? Improve the health and nutrition of kids and youth? Make local, sustainable food accessible? Connect communities through food? If yes, then Growing Chefs! might be the place for you! 

What we offer:

  • A supportive, collaborative, fun work environment

  • Opportunity to develop, expand your skills

  • A chance to make a difference in the food system

We are currently looking for two people to join our team: 

We will be conducting interviews as applications come in, so please don’t wait to submit. The positions may be filled before the closing dates.

Give the Gift of Gardens, Give the Gift of Growth

Did you see the lights? Last night, Science World glowed green for Growing Chefs! Tonight, on Giving Tuesday, BC Place is also going to be lit up green. When you see those lights, we hope you’re reminded of the hard work our chef volunteers put in to help kids’ connections to food take root.

Too many kids lack access to healthy, whole food or know where food comes from or how it’s grown. Growing Chefs! is on a mission to change that. Through our food literacy programs, delivered by teams of chef and community volunteers, we give kids and youth hands-on experience with the whole food cycle, from seed to plate to compost. 

Your donation this holiday season will help more BC kids build connections to the earth, local food systems, and with one another as they care for and harvest their gardens, and prepare and share meals together. We hope to raise $20,000 by the end of 2019.

A donation of:

  • $500 is equivalent to the cost of all the gardening and cooking equipment for one class

  • $200 is equivalent to the entire cost of the Classroom Gardening & Cooking Program for one student

  • $150 is equivalent to soil, seeds, and all of the gardening equipment needed for one classroom garden

  • $25 is equivalent to soil for one classroom garden

Giving Now Means Giving More!

Local businesses Houweling’s, Lyra Growth Partners, and Shauna Gold Personal Real Estate Corporation have committed to doubling donations* (including the annual pledged donation amounts for new Champion Radish Club monthly donors) between December 3 – December 31, 2019.

What’s the Champion Radish Club?

We’re so glad you asked. Our monthly donors make up the Champion Radish Club. Your monthly gift will provide a consistent, reliable, and predictable source of funding. This sustainability allows us to plan ahead and implement our hands-on programs more efficiently. It also lowers administrative costs.

Why choose monthly giving?

  • Your gift is easy, secure, and green—a monthly donation saves paper, postage, and energy!

  • You ensure your gift has the greatest possible impact!

  • You will get special updates from the classroom from our participating students!

  • You will get exclusive event invites to special events like the Affogato Affair and Beer, Bread & Butter!

  • You get to be a Champion Radish (A most delicious type of radish!)

Donation commitments can be made online using a credit card (via Canada Helps) between December 3 and December 31, 2019 to be eligible for matching.

For more information, or to make a matching commitment from your business: contact Jaydeen Williams, Development & Communications Director, jaydeen@growingchefs.ca or 604-710-1677.

* up to a maximum determined by corporate #GivingTuesday donations

THANK YOU to our Giving Tuesday partners:

 

Where in the world do you want to eat dinner?

If you could fly anywhere for dinner, what would you eat and where would you go? Fresh fish and chips on the East Coast of Canada? Crawfish gumbo in New Orleans? Street tacos in Mexico City? Now is your chance!

Win a roundtrip flight for two anywhere WestJet flies!

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  • 1 ticket for $20

  • 3 tickets for $50

  • 7 tickets for $100

Raffle draw will occur at our From Farms to Forks harvest kitchen party on Sunday, October 6th, 2019. Winner does not need to be in attendance to win. Raffle tickets are available to the public through midnight on Saturday, October 5th.

You must be in British Columbia to purchase raffle tickets, however you do not need to be a resident of British Columbia to win. Growing Chefs! staff, board members, and their partners are not eligible to win.

Maximum tickets available: 710

Gift of Flight - Things to Know (from WestJet)

Blackout Dates (from WestJet)

If you've got questions or would like to purchase raffle tickets, contact Jaydeen Williams, Development & Communications Director by email at jaydeen@growingchefs.ca or by phone/text 604-710-1677.

Join the Champion Radish Club!

What's the Champion Radish Club?

We're so glad you asked. Our monthly donors make up the Champion Radish Club. Your monthly gift provides sustainability and facilitates program planning and implementation and lowers administrative costs.

Why should I join the Champion Radish Club?

  • Your gift is easy, secure, and green—a monthly donation saves paper, postage, and energy!

  • You ensure your gift has the greatest possible impact!

  • You will get special updates from the classroom from our participating students!

  • You will get exclusive event invites to special events like the Affogato Affair and Beer, Bread & Butter!

  • You get to be a Champion Radish (A most delicious type of radish!).

We hope to grow our Champion Radish Club to 75 members in 2019. We have achieved over 80% of that goal and with your help, we can get there!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Join the club this month with a minimum $10/month commitment and be entered to win the "Fancy" basket from SPUD valued at over $100, full of B.C. snacks and delicacies.

Current Champion Radish Club members can also win by referring a new member, or increasing their gift by $2/month or more!

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Deadline to enter: May 6th at 7:00 pm.

Prize Draw: May 6th at 7:30 pm at our 3rd Annual Champion Radish Club exclusive event. You do not need to be in attendance to win.