Please join us on Sunday May 12th from 10am-3pm for a Climate Resilient Livestock Production Workshop with Tristan Banwell and Julia Smith at the Ruckle Heritage Farm Barn Workshop fee includes lunch provided by Southend Sausage.
$25 Abattoir members / $40 non-members
Pre-registration required by May 10th
E- transfer workshop fee to ssiabattoirpay@gmail.com Please put your full name in the memo box.
Haven’t renewed your membership yet? Please e-transfer $55 for membership & workshop.
- Program
- 10:00 Welcome & introductions
- 10:15: Pastured Poultry – best practices for maximizing profits
- 11:30 Abattoir Society AGM
- 12:00 Lunch by Southend Sausage
- 12:45 Pasture management & rotational grazing for cattle, sheep & pigs
Please carpool and park in designated areas. There is no parking along the road in Ruckle Park. Indoor sessions & outdoor demos. Indoor presentations in the barn with seating on benches and chairs – you might want to bring a cushion! Please bring a water bottle.
For more information, please contact ssiabattoir@gmail.com Sponsors: Salt Spring Abattoir Society Island Natural Growers Small-Scale Meat Producers Association We hope you will join us for an informative day of coming together to embrace sustainable agriculture and strengthen our climate resiliency with these wonderful presenters
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Tristan Banwell runs Spray Creek Ranch, a regenerative, organic, diversified farm in the Northern St’at’imc Territory near Lillooet where they raise cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry on pastures alongside the Fraser River and operate a Farmgate Plus abattoir. Tristan is the President of the SSMPA and a grazing mentor with Farmers for Climate Solutions and the Canadian Forage & Grasslands Ass programs. He and his wife Aubyn were recently named BC & Yukon’s Young Farmers of the Year.
Julia Smith, Executive director of the SSMPA has experience raising hogs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, turkeys & geese. She previously operated a butcher shop to direct market meat from her farm and other local producers. She now owns Blue Sky Ranch in Nlaka’pamux territory near Merrit where she practices rotational grazing completely off-grid. Julia is a grazing mentor and a director of Farmers for Climate Solutions.
Abattoir Society AGM 2024
Abattoir Society AGM 2024 will be held after the first session and before lunch. We will present the annual reports and appoint directors for 2024/25. Thanks to those who have already put their name forward: Fraser Baldwin, Abey Scaglione, Georg Janssen, Elsie Born, Mark Whitear, Anne Macey. If you are interested in joining the board, please contact Fraser Baldwin: fraser@falconfarm.ca
The SS Abattoir is a essential resource for providing local food and ensuring food security for our community. Having a local processing facility is better for the environment and animal welfare and it is crucial keeping animal agriculture on Salt Spring Island. Your membership is vitally important in keeping the abattoir going.