Join Ginelle Skerritt from Adinkrafarm, to learn how a resurgence in community farming coupled with the pandemic created the need to grow food and support secure food sources.
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Communities need to develop resources in support and promotion of food security and reclaim their relationship with the land.
Watch Online: https://my.nicheacademy.com/barrie/course/24204/sequence/23048
Ginelle Skerritt was recently appointed as the first Black CEO of a Children’sAid Society in Ontario. A mother of 5, Ginelle is an international public speaker, moderator, facilitator, trainer, coach, published author and the Banker Lady of a traditional susu savings association. Ginelle has been a community leader and activist for over 3 decades and most recently, she took on the role of Literary Review Circle Panelist for The Charity Report, an online news magazine for the charity sector. She was featured on the Official Black History Month poster, 25th anniversary edition, an 2018 alumnus of the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women and the 2022 awardee of the Ontario Black History Society Daniel G. Hill award for Community Service.
She is the co-owner of Adrinkrafarm, a cooperative and educational family farm where she leads retreats, camps, team building, Akan- based Rites of Passage and farm programmes for youth, adults and children. She is a student of Indigenous African ancestral practices.
Join us Saturdays in March for BPL's online Seedy Saturday and Green Expo
Borrow: seed from BPL's Seed Library
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