Food, community and culture were celebrated Saturday at the 11th annual Fall Harvest Fair in Ndilo.
The yearly celebration and potluck feast — a collaboration between Ecology North and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation's Dechita Naowo — saw dozens of guests gather outside the Ndilo Gym to take in an array of harvest-related activities and workshops, from fish-drying demonstrations and garden produce preservation tips to a meet-and-greet with local chickens.
Guests lined up for hot-off-the grill bison burgers after winners of the fair’s Veggie Show Off — a competition that saw local growers go head-to-head with their biggest and best beets and carrots — were crowned.
By bringing community members together to celebrate the harvest season while showcasing a myriad of Northern harvesting practices and food systems, organizers aim to encourage local food harvesting and production in the NWT.
Emma Kanamori befriends a local chicken.
Aug. 24, 2019.
Aug. 24, 2019.
‘What are your taste buds telling you,” Lone Sorensen asks as she leads a taste test between garden grown and store bought carrots. ‘They always pick the garden grown as the best,’ added fellow volunteer Marilyn Colin.
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Aug. 24, 2019.
Irene Sangris puts on a masterclass during a fish-drying demonstration Saturday. ‘Nothing gets wasted,’ Sangris, gathering guts and whitefish scales, tells a group of attentive onlookers.
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Aug. 24, 2019.
Chicken-whisperer Murray Wick is surrounded by a cluster of curious kids.
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Aug. 24, 2019.
Sean Erasmus serves up bison burgers to long line of guests.
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Aug. 24, 2019.
Aug. 24, 2019.
The Fall Harvest Fair is supported by Yellowknife Community Garden Collective, Wilfrid Laurier University, FLEdGE Research and ITI-North Slave.
