Save the Date – Seed Bank Events
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Bring your favourite dish to share and come join us at our Potluck AGM!
Your Co-op will be providing home-made soup and local green salad – and you bring the rest!
Here are the meeting details:
Date: March 11, 2026
Place: Agi Co-op Hall 465 South Road
Time:
5:30 – Door open for registration
6:00 – Potluck
7:00 – Meeting starts
Documents
Here are three documents you may wish to read prior to the AGM:
Your directors are proposing a special resolution ” that the Gabriola Agricultural Co-op waive the appointment of an auditor for the fiscal year.”
Here is your current board and what will be changing at our AGM:
- Laura-Jean Kelly, appointed in August and will be continuing
- Rob West, appointed in August and will stepping down
- Graham Bradley, completed 3 terms and must step down as per rule 70(b)
- Drew Staniland, completed 1 term and is stepping down
- Rachel Dubois, completed 1 term and is stepping down
This represents a significant change in our directors, so we are asking you to consider taking a board term. There are a few members interested but nothing official just yet.
As well, we have been discussing using Rule 60 to reduce the size of the board slightly in order to reduce quorum to reflect a potentially smaller board. This will be discussed at the AGM.
There is an offer from several current board members to coach the incoming board for several meetings to help effectively pass on the leadership.
If you are new to boards some education will be provided.
Please send your intention to run, along with a note outlining what skills and experience you have to offer your co-op to: coopagiassoc@gmail.com
You will also have the opportunity to nominate yourself or other members at the AGM.
If you can’t commit to being a director at the moment, you might consider joining one of the key pods (committees). You’ll hear more about the work of the pods at the AGM.
We look forward to seeing you on March 11th!
The Magic of Soil
In response to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization announcement, “Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues” (Scientific American, Dec. 5, 2014), University of British Columbia Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomer, Phil Gregory, has spent the past two years investigating the subject to see what, if anything, can be done. The good news is that during the last 20 to 30 years there has been an amazing revolution in our understanding of soil biology and nature’s complexity. This offers tremendous potential to deal with food security and climate change issues in a way where nature will do most of the work. In this 40 minute video, Gregory summarizes some of the new insights that have emerged from the hidden universe of soils. The really big challenge is to re-educate ourselves in the short time available. The French government recognizes this and at the Paris Climate meeting (COP 21) they proposed an agricultural initiative, known as “4 per 1000“, to increase soil carbon by 0.4% per year. As of Nov 2016, thirty three countries have agreed to participate.