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.
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This report offers an action plan for designing a local food aggregation and distribution system to support more consistent local food access for people living in social, supportive, and transitional housing across the Comox Valley.
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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.
Read MoreLOWER 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
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Emma’s Acres integrates small-scale sustainable family farming with social enterprise and community development.
Read MoreAccording 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
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