One Straw Society

10/10/2026

Onsite fruit tree pruning lesson & discussion:

Learn pruning techniques from certified arborist, Cheryl Topping, as she reduces and thins an overgrown Italian plum for more manageable picking and better fruit quality. Bring questions & photos of your tree troubles.

Saturday, Oct 17 1:00pm
Pay by donation
Fairview Rd, Gibsons

SIGN UP: www.onestraw.ca/events

10/09/2026

Farm Stand is open until the end of October. Stop by today and get yourself some delicious fresh produce for the weekend!

Carrots
Kale
Broccoli shoots
Green onions
Mixed herbs
Cherry tomatoes
Sweet peppers
Jalapenos
Winter squash
Lettuce

10/03/2026

Fermented sodas & lactofermented pickles workshop!!! Last minute - 2 spots available for this afternoon's workshop, starting at 3pm at One Tiny Farm in Roberts Creek.

Learn to make fermented sodas & lacto-fermented pickles.

09/24/2026

Ice cream is the sweet hook; food systems are the bigger story.

You know those fancy fruits you get in your treats at Good News Ice Cream? Roasted italian plum, cinnamon apple pie, blackberry, black cherry, fig, vanilla quince, tart golden plum, etc etc etc.....

They were picked by community volunteers. From trees that would have dropped that fruit and rotted, attracting bears and rats to back yards.

Instead, that fruit was rescued and picked at peak freshness, some given to the pickers, some given to elderly tree owners who can't pick any more, some added to subsidized foodboxes, and some bringing people together to chat & chop (like these lovely folks here). Aside from getting it into bellies that need it, this fruit is a tool to build community connections, teach new skills and show people how to use equipment in the Tool Library (like steam juicers and pressure canners).

And in the end, you bring your friends and family for a delicious, sustainable ice cream with REAL FRUIT - which is awesome in itself - but then you wander our community gardens and read the signs about co-planting, solar power, the tool library, and community kitchen. And hopefully, it inspires you to get more involved, and your ice cream helps raise enough funds to keep our community gardens going & growing by One Straw Society.

Come for the cone.
Stay for the cause.
Food security affects all of us.
www.onestraw.ca/membership

09/21/2026

MEMBER pizza party!
Sunday, Sept 27
5pm - 7pm

We love a Member Social! Lots of good people, shared values, creative ideas, great food, and banter feed the soul. As fall peeks in, let's get some dough, learn to stretch out a pizza crust, and top it with all the farm bounty we can find! Please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/4ys265bf

The story of the pizza oven: This summer, we had a spontaneous visit to the Tiny Farm by a crew of media and social media folks, who were doing a back-country tour of the Sunshine Coast in a fleet of INEOS Grenadiers. They landed at the Tiny Farm, fired up a big beautiful pizza oven to feed the crew, and off they went on their next adventure. In the process, they gifted this amazing Gozney pizza oven and all its bells and whistles to One Straw Society. What a sweet surprise! Thank you, and we're happy to share it with our community!

Member Pizza Social: Sunday 5pm. If you feel like it, bring along one of your favourite toppings to add to the topping table.

PLEASE RSVP so we know how much dough to make the day before! https://tinyurl.com/4ys265bf

This is a member event. To join or renew: www.onestraw.ca/membership

Photos from our end-of-summer team get-together. 🥰

09/20/2026

Farmer John Yue's colourful peppers visited One Tiny Farm before making their way into someone's foodbox, then someone's dinner last night.

Local food is magical.

09/16/2026

It's a wrap! Our final long table dinner is done, and we move into fall with full bellies and hearts!

Chef Anthony Santi was the feature chef of this beautiful evening, woo-ing us with 5 beautiful courses of farmcentric fare. Each course brought the autumn bounty from a different farm - Grounded Acres Organic Farm, Paradise Valley Produce, Legacy Mushrooms Inc., Ruby's Run Urban Farms, and Heart and Sol Coastal Farm!

It's such a hard thing to express - the creativity, the bonding and friendships that form, the blissful mmmm's after each first bite, the music in the air under the twinkle lights - it's an experience we don't get every day!

Thank you to volunteer chefs Chef Anthony, with help from Chefs Jack Chen and Murray Flaherty, thank you to the volunteer servers, dishwashers, bouquet-makers, and The Georgia Fats for the awesome tunes. Thank you to everyone who buys tickets to these beautiful dinners, and to everyone who contributes in all the ways they can all year long - time, donations, connections, skills, etc. It's making a difference! Look what we've built together!

We're putting legs on the ground - partner with us to take on food security today and into the future! www.onestraw.ca/donate

Thank you Anthony and everyone else! We love you!

09/13/2026

Here in Gibsons!

09/12/2026

And just like that... School's back, and fall is flirting with the trees and the clouds, dropping a leaf here and there as a warning.

We'll stay open Saturday & Sunday through September, and then play it by ear. We expect to close for the season in October.

Please come visit us!

September hours: SAT | SUN 1-8pm

09/03/2026

We (and you) have rescued almost 3,000 pounds of fruit! Cherries, plums, crabapples, damson, blackberries, apples & pears - oh my! We've been putting all this fruit into subsidized foodboxes, crafting it in our community kitchen, bringing people together to process, learn and connect, and it's finding its way into the ice cream at Good News Ice Cream, helping fund these programs!

We have a pickle though. Or should we say an apple???

Thousands of pounds of delicious apples need picking, but neither the pickers who are already signed up nor us as an organization have any more room or use for apples! Please get in touch if you'd like to pick apples - [email protected]

What's next?

1. 🍇 Grapes and 🍐 Quince are going to be ready next! Please sign up your fruit and we'll be in touch to come pick!

2. Fruit Processing is happening every Thursday 10 - 1 at One Tiny Farm in Roberts Creek - Join us to chat, chop, peel, stew, juice, make syrup, poach pears, caramelize plums & more! https://volunteersignup.org/ARHQW

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The Fruit Share Project is a collaboration of partners, making it all happen! THANK YOU!!!
🍓 Our partner, Sunshine Coast Financial and its amazing members funded half the van, equipment, and a fruit freezer!
🍓 Sunshine Coast Foundation funded half of the van
🍓 SCRD's Waste Reduction grant funded orchard ladders, pickers & crates
🍓 Coast Fresh Foods donates fruit that needs sorting or processing to make best use of it

Join us!
www.onestraw.ca/fruit