with Rhona McAdam

Learn which varieties are the most nutritious, and how best to prepare and store them for optimum nutrition with Rhona McAdam, local author, poet and holistic nutritionist. Rhona has a Permaculture Design Certificate, a Master's degree in Food Culture & Communication and is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist.

Over thousands of years of agriculture, we have sought to make our food crops more delicious and productive to grow, but our knowledge of agriculture has outstripped our awareness of food's nutritional content and medicinal values.         

Nowadays, as chronic food-related ailments increase in tandem with consumption of highly processed, artificially flavoured and nutritionally bankrupt foods, it's time to step back and salvage something from our fruits and vegetables. This class will be of interest to both home gardeners and to non-gardening consumers.

HCP Members $40.00
Non-Members $45.00

To register, call 250 479 6162.

Instructor Bio: Rhona McAdam
Rhona McAdam is a food writer, poet and holistic nutritionist. She has a Permaculture Design Certificate, a Master's degree in Food Culture & Communication (from Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy) and is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist. Her business, Go Local Nutrition, is based at Haliburton Community Organic Farm in Victoria, and she teaches Eco-Nutrition at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition in Nanaimo. She's published numerous collections of food (and other) poetry, written for Small Farm Canada and Alive magazines, and her first nonfiction book, Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto, has been garnering praise from urban and rural readers since it first appeared in 2012.

"You don't need to be a “Guerrilla Gardener” to enjoy reading Digging the City. The book is appealing for its personal narrative, informative analysis, and for its contribution to the growing literature on the sustainable food movement that seeks to change the way we eat." - Coastal Spectator