food hub & Community workspace in New Denver, BC, Canada
Category: News
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Incubating New Food Businesses
A dynamic and varied group of enthusiastic people from across the region spent last weekend at Fireweed Hub exploring how to start or scale up food and beverage businesses in a course with Food Business Coach Mandi Lunan. The course was funded by a Rural Economic Development grant from the BC Government. The lucky dozen…
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Food Pathways: Mushrooms
We’ve been collaborating locally with the Healthy Community Society and regionally with the Kaslo Food Hub and the Nelson Community Food Cupboard to offer a series of community events in the “Food Pathways in the Kootenays” program, funded by United Way Canada. Each workshop is repeated in each of the three communities. Along with the…
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Food business course
On the weekend of October 18/19, Fireweed Hub will be offering a two-day workshop for aspiring food entrepreneurs, led by the inimitable food business coach Mandi Lunan. Thanks to funding from the provincial government’s Rural Economic Development fund, all costs of the workshop are covered for participants. “This is an incredible opportunity for people who…
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chewy butterscotch granola bars
Recipe for chewy, sweet & salty butterscotch granola bars, popularized at the Tuesday morning Elders’ Events at Fireweed Hub.
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Free Workshop with Mandi Lunan
Free food-related business workshops coming in October 2025 with amazing facilitator Mandi Lunan. Newbies welcome: start a new career or ramp up a side-hustle. Fill out our expression of interest form at fireweedhub.ca to get on the list!
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Hosting a “visiting” expert
Fireweed Hub’s multimedia meeting set-up is proving to be flexible, effective, approachable and engaging. We are grateful to have a set of really top-notch tech resources* and a flexible space, all of which work together to create a terrific hybrid meeting experience. It is nothing like the COVID-era Zoom meetings most of us suffered through…
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Elders’ events
Every Tuesday morning our wonderful coordinator Andrea Conquergood hosts community elders at Fireweed Hub. These gatherings vary between strictly social events (often featuring birthday cake!) and, on alternate weeks, programming of some sort. Free baked snacks, coffee and tea are always part of the mix. So far the programming has included fitness sessions, informational sessions…
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Valley Voice Article
Fireweed Hub fills need for community gathering space during wildfires link to the complete August 8, 2024 edition of the Valley Voice Online The Fireweed Hub in downtown New Denver has quickly become the go-to community space during the wildfire emergency. “ It’s easy for the Fireweed to look like the hero in all this,…
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Nelson Star Article
Bill Metcalfe, Nelson Star Original article here Breakfast had to be ready by 6 a.m., but the cooks at New Denver’s Fireweed Hub were volunteers who had no idea how many people they had to feed. Some of the volunteers had already been forced to evacuate by nearby wildfires and were working with the stress of not…