***UPDATE: This workshop has been moved to Sunday, August 8th. Same time, same place, same food!***

This workshop is for all you Vancouver Island folk, or those of you who might be on the Island in June. Being held at Tria Culinary Studio on Sunday June 13th and brought to you also by Hans Peter Meyer, we’ll be shooting some beautiful creations from Tria’s Kathy Jerritt including Tuna Poke on a sesame crisp and Mixed greens with a beet carpaccio and whipped goat cheese.

As usual you’ll learn step-by-step how to set up for food shots, how to use your camera’s manual settings and achieve that sought after depth of field in food photography, as well as some basic food styling tips and a set of workshop notes to take away. This is a first - Jackie is offering an additional photo critique for every person who registers for this workshop: email 1 photo to Jackie that you take either at the workshop or on your own afterward, and she will critique it, giving you feedback and constructive criticism. Offer expires June 27th, photo must arrive by this date.

There’s also an optional lunch that will be prepared by Kathy Jerritt of Tria: Savoury Crepes filled with house smoked salmon, creme fraiche, sweet red onion jam and fresh arugula with Nature’s Way Farm greens. Delicious!

And if you haven’t been to Tria Culinary Studio/Nature’s Way Farm…it’s beautiful!

photo courtesy of Tria Culinary Studio/Nature's Way Farm

photo courtesy of Tria Culinary Studio/Nature's Way Farm

photo courtesy of Tria Culinary Studio/Nature's Way Farm

To register for this workshop: email Jackie and I will send you a PayPal link to reserve your spot. There are only 15 11 spots available.

Workshop: $75+gst

Workshop + Lunch: $85+gst

Hope to see you there!

***UPDATE: This workshop has been moved to Sunday, August 8th. Same time, same place, same food!***

Hailing from the Comox Valley I try my best to keep tabs on what’s going on there. From a fellow Islander, Hans Peter Meyer, I kept seeing something he was interviewing Valley residents about called CV2050.  Born out of conversations between Hans, David Stapley and Meaghan Cursons around 8 pillars of sustainability (social & community well-being, food security, infrastructure
ecosystems, environment, parks, economic health, transportation, building & site development, housing & neighbourhoods) and the fact that they love the Comox Valley and want to see it thrive in years to come (with specific goals to reach by the year 2050) , they are interviewing a variety of Valley leaders in the hopes deepening the conversation about sustainability in the Comox Valley community and region.

I watched his 3×2x8 interview with Roberta Stevenson of the BC Shellfish Growers Association and thought “Well, it’s about the Valley and sustainability, yes I will re-tweet!” Be careful what you wish for, because not two days later I got a message from Hans asking if he could interview me on the topic of food Sustainability in the Valley. Of course, without question, I agreed.

If you’re interested about reading what some major players in the Comox Valley are saying about these 8 pillars of sustainability, here’s the run down:

Sam Sommers
Gary Rolston
Andrew Gower
Patti Fletcher
Mark Holland
Betty-Anne Juba
Vivian Dean
Tom Dishlevoy
Roberta Stevenson (BC Shellfish Growers’ Assoc)
Jack Minard
Chef Ronald St. Pierre
judy walker
Jackie Connelly
Meaghan Cursons
Paul Krismer

If you’d like to keep up to date with this project you can follow Hans Peter Meyer on Twitter and join the 3×2x8 Facebook page. And, Hans is really hoping that others will pick up the interview and run with it - so if you’d like to be interviewed, or would like to interview someone in the Comox Valley on one of these pillars, give either Hans or I a holler.