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SUMMARY:Welcome to the NFU
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the National Farmers Union!\n\nYou’re invited to an onboarding session where new and newly engaged members\, like you\, will learn to build collective power within the structures of the union. This will be a casual and interactive space to meet other members while learning about the organization of the union\, active policy campaigns\, and opportunities to get involved. And most importantly\, there will be lots of opportunities to ask questions. There is strength in knowledge!\n\nRegister for our upcoming Welcome to the NFU event on Thursday May 1 at 4pm BC/ 5pm AB/ 6pm SK + MB/ 7pm ON + QC/ 9pm ATL.\n\nRegistration link: https://nfu-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oc16m38gSZWyBGcbLGd0QQ
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/welcome-to-the-nfu-2/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250503T130000
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SUMMARY:🌸 Beltane Celebration at Roots Farm and Retreat 🌿
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the turning of the wheel with fire\, flowers\, and intention. Our Beltane gathering is a sacred spring celebration of earth\, community\, and fertility—with wildflower crown crafting\, maypole dancing\, a fire ritual and altar\, grounding intention setting\, and a shared potluck feast.\nBring your spirit\, your dish\, and your openness to connect with the land and each other. \n🎟️ Sliding scale contribution: $20–30📍Newington\, Ontario📲 RSVP & potluck sign-up at: rootsfarmretreat.org/events \nLet the season of blossoming begin 🌼🔥🌱
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/%f0%9f%8c%b8-beltane-celebration-at-roots-farm-and-retreat-%f0%9f%8c%bf/
LOCATION:Roots Farm & Retreat\, 16270 Bog Rd\, Newington\, ON K0C 1Y0\, Newington\, Ontario\, K0C 1Y0
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250515T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20260401T035959
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SUMMARY:Advance Payments Program
DESCRIPTION:The Advance Payments Program is a federal loan guarantee program which provides agricultural producers with easy access to low-cost cash advances.\n\nUnder the program\, you can access up to $1\,000\,000 in total advances based on the value of the eligible agricultural products you will produce or that you have in storage. The Government of Canada pays the interest on the first $100\,000 of your advance (the first $250\,000 for 2024 and 2025). You repay your advance as you sell the agricultural products\, with up to 18 months to fully repay the advance for most commodities (up to 24 months for cattle and bison).\n\nAPP advances can provide you with cash flow to meet your financial needs until you are able to sell your agricultural products. The program can provide marketing flexibility by allowing you to sell your agricultural products based on market conditions rather than the need for cash.\n\nAPP advances are available through 26 participating producer organizations\, that is\, APP Administrators\, across Canada.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/advance-payments-program/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Grant
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250515T190000
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: The Election’s Over - How do we mobilize for food sovereignty now? 🌱
DESCRIPTION:(4PM PDT / 5PM AB + SK / 6PM CDT / 7PM EDT / 8PM ADT / 8:30PM NDT) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we come together from across Canada to strategize ways to advance food sovereignty in the wake of the federal election. With a new political landscape emerging\, this is a crucial moment to organize\, build power\, and shape a just and sustainable food system for all! \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal Zoom session that will give us space to: \n\n\n\n\nDebrief the results of the election: Who got elected and what are they saying about food and farming?\n\n\n\nConsider next steps: What are concrete next steps for advocacy? Who should we build relationships with?\n\n\n\nFind the pressure points: Who are the decision-makers or organizations we can influence? What valuable relationships do we already have?\n\n\n\nConnect with one another: Ask questions\, pool knowledge\, and strengthen the foundations of a powerful movement.\n\n\n\n\n🗓️ Register Here!
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/save-the-date-the-elections-over-how-do-we-mobilize-for-food-sovereignty-now-%f0%9f%8c%b1/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250522T040000
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SUMMARY:Food Price Inflation and Farmer Livelihood
DESCRIPTION:Canadian farmers have seen no benefit from rising grocery store prices since 2020. Instead\, they are being squeezed by corporate profiteering on all sides. For years\, corporate concentration in Canada’s food system has kept farm gate prices chronically low\, while retail prices rise steadily for consumers. Farmers are forced to accept prices that are decided by large\, multinational commodity traders and processors. At the same time\, they face prohibitively high costs for inputs from oligopolistic suppliers. The system is stacked against farmers and consumers alike. It’s time to confront corporate power in the food system.\n\nJoin the NFU on May 22nd at 3PM EST for a panel webinar on the farmers’ share of food prices and an examination of how corporate concentration in the Canadian food system harms both farmers and consumers featuring Keldon Bester of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project; Alex Purdye former Broadbent Institute Fellow; and Alyssa Gerhardt\, PhD student at Dalhousie University.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/food-price-inflation-and-farmer-livelihood-the-declining-farmers-share-2/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250522T120000
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SUMMARY:Food Price Inflation and Farmer Livelihood: The Declining Farmers' Share
DESCRIPTION:Canadian farmers have seen no benefit from rising grocery store prices since 2020. Instead\, they are being squeezed by corporate profiteering on all sides. For years\, corporate concentration in Canada’s food system has kept farm gate prices chronically low\, while retail prices rise steadily for consumers. Farmers are forced to accept prices that are decided by large\, multinational commodity traders and processors. At the same time\, they face prohibitively high costs for inputs from oligopolistic suppliers. \n\n\n\nThe system is stacked against farmers and consumers alike. It’s time to confront corporate power in the food system. Join the NFU on May 22nd at 3PM EST for a panel webinar on the farmers’ share of food prices and an examination of how corporate concentration in the Canadian food system harms both farmers and consumers featuring Keldon Bester of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project; Alex Purdye former Broadbent Institute Fellow; and Alyssa Gerhardt\, PhD student at Dalhousie University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlyssa Gerhardt is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. She specializes in economic sociology\, studying personal debt in Atlantic Canada using a mixed-method approach. Alyssa has been involved in several different projects with the Rural Futures Research Centre at Dalhousie\, including a regional study on work\, income\, and community. Recently she co-authored Canada’s Food Price Report 2021\, a national report that forecasts food prices and examines food trends as well as a study of farmers market food prices to better understand alternative food systems. \n\n\n\nKeldon Bester is the Executive Director of CAMP\, and a Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Keldon has worked as a Special Advisor at the Competition Bureau\, as a Fellow at the Open Markets Institute\, and as a consultant across sectors in Canada. \n\n\n\nAlex Purdye is a research analyst and a master’s student at Carleton University’s Institute of Political Economy. His research focuses include monetary theory\, currency internationalization\, classical political economy\, and the history of economic thought.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/food-price-inflation-and-farmer-livelihood-the-declining-farmers-share/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20250522T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20250522T213000
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SUMMARY:NFU Region 7 Community Town Hall: Organizing for Land and Community Defense
DESCRIPTION:On May 22nd 2025\, the National Farmers Union is holding a Town Hall to discuss the detrimental environmental\, economic and societal impacts of the proposed Eastern Slopes Coal Mining and the proposed Pathway Alliance Carbon Capture Pipeline\, as well as the highly controversial Tariffs under the Trump administration amongst rural and urban communities\, and how Albertans can resist. The Town Hall focuses on coalition building by connecting both groups and individuals interested in resisting the proposed developments and tariffs. This event is presented in partnership with groups currently organizing against the slopes\, such as the Council of Canadians and Keepers of the Water. \n\n\n\nThis hybrid Town hall is taking place at the Climate Justice Edmonton Hub (10217 106 St\, Edmonton\, AB T5J 3P3) from 6:30-9:30 pm. \n\n\n\n\nZoom Link\n\n\n\n\nLe 22 mai 2025\, L’Union Nationale des Fermiers organise une assemblée publique pour discuter des impacts environnementaux\, économiques et sociaux néfastes du projet d’exploitation minière du charbon des versants orientaux et du projet de pipeline de capture du carbone de l’Alliance Pathway\, ainsi que des tarifs douaniers très controversés de l’administration Trump au sein des communautés rurales et urbaines\, et de la façon dont les Albertains peuvent y résister. L’assemblée générale se concentre sur la création de coalitions en mettant en relation les groupes et les individus intéressés par la résistance aux développements et aux tarifs proposés. Cet événement est présenté en partenariat avec des groupes qui s’organisent actuellement contre les pentes\, tels que le Conseil des Canadiens et Gardiens de L’Eau. \n\n\n\nL’assemblée générale hybride aura lieu au Climate Justice Edmonton Hub\, 10217 106 St Edmonton\, AB T5J 3P3\, de 18h30 à 21h30. \n\n\n\n\nLien Zoom
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-region-7-community-town-hall-organizing-for-land-and-community-defense/
LOCATION:Climate Justice Edmonton Hub\, 10217 106th St NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, T5J 3P3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250528T203000
DTSTAMP:20260302T182631Z
CREATED:20250520T163149Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring Small Water Cycles: Expanding the Climate Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Didi Pershouse presents an entirely new view of water\, soils\, and climate. You will learn how the living matrix of a “soil sponge” is foundational to making life on earth possible\, and how the work of other species creates our climate and weather. \n\n\n\nWe can address many of our major challenges in the agricultural sector through simple changes in land management\, in collaboration with the essential workforce of plants\, animals\, insects\, fungi\, and microbes. Managing land in ways that restore nature’s soil sponge and diverse vegetation can provide many interrelated benefits such as: increased resilience to flood and drought\, reduction of wildfire risk\, and increased habitat and biodiversity. It can also result in healthier crops\, animals\, and humans\, and thriving local economies. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDidi Pershouse\n\n\n\nDidi Pershouse is the author of  The Ecology of Care: Medicine\, Agriculture\, Money\, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function. She teaches participatory workshops both in person and online\, helping to show the nested relationships between soil health\, human health\, water cycles\, and climate resiliency.  She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative and the Center for Sustainable Medicine\, and a co-founder of the “Can we Rehydrate California?” Initiative. She is an independent trainer and curriculum developer for the UN-FAO Farmer Field School Program and the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative in India. She was one of five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExploring Small Water Cycles: Expanding the Climate Conversation\n\n\n\nLinks to works cited in the webinar: \n\n\n\n\nThe Ecology of Care: Medicine\, Agriculture\, Money\, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities\, by Didi Pershouse \n\n\n\nHealth and Watershed Function\n\n\n\nLand and Leadership Initiative\n\n\n\n “Can we Rehydrate California?” Initiative  \n\n\n\n2017 United Nations-FAO World Soil Day\n\n\n\n\nVisit our NFUniversity playlist on our Youtube channel to see a complete list of our NFUniversity recorded webinars.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/exploring-small-water-cycles-expanding-the-climate-conversation/
CATEGORIES:NFUniversity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250531T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20250531T170000
DTSTAMP:20250506T133904Z
CREATED:20250501T183843Z
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SUMMARY:Apply to Community Development Fund: Up to $500\,000 in Ontario
DESCRIPTION:Are you working on a project for your community? Submit it between April 15 and May 31\, 2025. Up to $500\,000 will be rewarded to support meaningful projects. \nCommunity Development Fund\nThrough this fund\, Desjardins Credit Union supports projects that make a real difference in Ontario communities. \nBased on a needs assessment of the Ontario communities we serve\, in which several local stakeholders took part\, we are launching a call for applications to support organizations\, associations and cooperatives that are working on meaningful projects that will have positive impacts on their local community. \nThese projects must fall under 1 of the 5 priorities identified in the needs assessment and outlined in the credit union’s community involvement plan.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/community-development-fund-up-to-500000-in-ontario/
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