Sidney Breakfast Club
SBC September 10th – Tamara Knott: Owner & Controlled Environment Farmer at Bright Greens & Steve Duck: Business Manager for the Sandown Center for Regenerative Agriculture
Challenges fresh food to market – distribution challenging / processing in Island challenging high land costs older farm owners dominant / succession issues / aging out with huge debt / how do young farmers get involved high cost of labour / limited labour pool how can the farm owner earn a sustainable living? Partner […]
Read MoreSBC January 9th – The Cascadia Seaweed story
Happy New Year SBC members! I hope that you had a great holiday season and are ready to get going again. 🙂 This new decades inaugural meeting on January 9th will feature the good folks from Cascadia Seaweed. This is such a great start-up story featuring many local personalities & talent. From their website, please […]
Read MoreSBC December 12th 2019 – Scott Phillips, CEO of Starfish Medical
Good morning SBC members! This month’s December 12th SBC meeting will feature Scott Phillips, the CEO of Starfish Medical (https://starfishmedical.com/). He was an early member and supporter of the Sidney Breakfast Club and we’re most honoured to have him speak to us as the final SBC speaker of the decade. StarFish is Canada’s leading Medical […]
Read MoreSBC November 14th, 2019 – Lindsay Dault, the Owner/Manager of Country Bee Honey Farm
Good morning SBC members! This month’s November 14th SBC meeting follows up on our most informative Agri-Tourism based meeting from last month. We’re excited to announce that Lindsay Dault, the Owner/Manager of Country Bee Honey Farm (https://www.countrybeehoney.ca/) will be our November speaker. In 2009 Lindsay and Jason Dault started their Vancouver based business Urban Bee […]
Read MoreSBC October 10th – Paul Nursey, CEO Destination Greater Victoria
Happy October everyone! It’s time for our Halloween month meeting…maybe I’ll admit that it’s finally Fall…LOL! This month we’re going to hear, chat and learn about a vital & core Peninsula Industry sector that we likely haven’t chatted about at the SBC, i.e., agriculture, food processing and agri-tourism. Recently a Saanich Peninsula focused agri-tourism initiative […]
Read MoreSBC Thursday September 12th – Amelia Warren, CEO Epicure
Good morning everyone and welcome to our first Sidney Breakfast Club meeting of the Fall. It feels like the summer is over far too quickly but we usually have great weather in September and October, so I sense that we’ll have an extended season for a while. 🙂 Our September 12th meeting features a Peninsula […]
Read MoreSBC June 13th – 2019 meeting – The ICC Group – “How to achieve overnight success in 35 years”
Hello Sidney Breakfast Club members. Our final SBC meeting before the summer break is next week, Thursday, June 13th so I’m expecting a great turn-out! This month’s speaker sees a return to the SBC’s original & ongoing mandate of inviting local corporate leaders to speak about their company stories, to reflect on their successes and […]
Read MoreSBC May 9th Meeting – Pauline Finn, ED, Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea & Peter Garnham, ED, Sidney Museum
Time ‘n Tide Culture on the Saanich Peninsula Good morning Sidney Breakfast Club members and welcome to gorgeous weather on the Peninsula! We’ve had an engaging series of employee retention and retraction themed speakers in 2019 (sporting events & culture, wellness and cycling, networking & soft skills) with our May SBC session representing our final […]
Read MoreSBC January 10th – Dr. Jennie Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of TrichAnalytics
I can’t believe that it’s 2019…ya, that’s OK, I’m not getting any older…LOL…Happy New Year everyone! Helping you get back into the swing of things is our January 10th Sidney Breakfast Club meeting. Dr. Jennie Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of TrichAnalytics (https://www.trichanalytics.com/) will be our guest speaker. TrichAnalytics was a 2018 Peninsula Chamber of Commerce […]
Read MoreSBC December 13th – Humaira Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Locelle
Happy holidays everyone. It’s that time of year again and we might actually get some winter weather this week. I’m so excited to announce our December 13th speaker! Please come and meet and listen to Peninsula based Humaira Ahmed, the Founder and CEO of Locelle (https://locelle.com/), a women only social networking platform that provides women […]
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