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Planning for Food System Resilience at the Bulkley Valley Food Security Forum

Posted on September 15, 2017

The ice storms in the Lower Mainland last year prompted an inevitable crisis — highways were closed and food trucks couldn’t make it up here. Store shelves started emptying…We were having a food system breakdown.

It all starts with a seed: Cowichan Valley incubates the first of its kind seed farm

Posted on July 6, 2016

A new incubator seed farm in the Cowichan Valley is set to train new seed farmers who can meet the significant and growing demand for more local, organic seed while addressing the loss of seed diversity and localised production. Food security begins with seed security.

Swap ‘food for fines’ at Fraser Valley Regional Library

LOWER your library fines and help feed those in need during Fraser Valley Regional Library’s (FVRL) 2nd Annual Food for Fines campaign. Source: Indo-Canadian Voice | December 21, 2015

Local food system study finds Southwest B.C. has only 40 per cent food self-reliance

According to groundbreaking research published in the Southwest B.C. Bioregion Food System Design Project, we have only 40 per cent food self-reliance — and that’s using imported feed for livestock. Without imported feed, that self-reliance drops to just 12 per cent. Source: Langley Times | March 21, 2017

Catching up with the Northwest Food Security Partnership: A year of convening from Masset to Prince George

Posted on October 4, 2018

Huddled over a picnic table on Gabriola Island, the Gateway caught up by phone with Laurie Gallant 1,300 km away in New Hazelton. Laurie champions the emerging Northwest Food Security Partnership.