Hands, The Family Help Network & SAVOUR Muskoka help parents and their children experience Farming and Preserving

During the final days of the local strawberry season SAVOUR Muskoka assisted The Family Help Network by helping sponsor an event which took parents and their children to a local farm to pick strawberries. The farm experience was complimented by a freezer jam workshop in which each participant walked away with a jar of freezer jam and fresh berries. The event started at 9.00am at the Bracebridge Community gardens located at the Your Independent Grocer (YIG) in Bracebridge, followed by a trip to Brooklands Farm and concluded back at YIG’s for a freezer jam workshop on the morning of Friday July 2nd, 2010.

SAVOUR Muskoka members, Brooklands Farm and Yummies in a Jar donated time and product in order to make this event happen. The event was in association with the Great Beginnings Growing Up Program, they provides families with a place for parents to share in the play experience with your child, weekly workshops on interesting topics relating to parenting and child development, information and referral for community resources, parents with an opportunity to meet and share with other parents, a free $10.00 food coupon each week, free transportation to the program if needed, and a free healthy snack each week.

The SAVOUR Muskoka vision is to provide the consumer with a wide selection of regional culinary products, experiences and packages that are unique to Muskoka and that can be marketed successfully to the visitor market. As the organization matures in the community, the role of our organization also changes from one that also has the social responsibility to make sure that everyone in the community has access to agricultural resources and experiences no matter what their social or demographic position is in the community. Sharing tools, culinary and agricultural resources with everyone is important in our mission to facilitate the successful development of the Muskoka region as a dynamic culinary tourism destination, by promoting all sectors of the economy with an interest in local food and drink

SAVOUR Muskoka continues to work with its stakeholders in order to stay connected with all the opportunities that culinary tourism and agriculture have to offer. SAVOUR Muskoka, a FedNor initiative, and its members are united in their efforts to celebrate and share in Muskoka’s agricultural and culinary heritage.