Do you have a vision for what building relationships between farmers and housing providers might accomplish?
Maurita Prato of Lush Valley does. In collaboration with a social housing coalition in the Comox Valley, they have created a roadmap showing how how existing food action programs like good food boxes, gleaning and food literacy programs can bring good food into the social, supportive, and transitional housing systems in the region.
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The Gleaner is a bi-weekly round-up of blog posts, new stories, featured resources and important happenings from the BC Food Security Gateway. Come explore the wickedest question in food systems work with us.
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Last year the Victoria Urban Food Table created a survey to gain a better understanding of what type of food growing activities were happening on private lands in the City of Victoria. The Gateway’s Community of Practice member Aaren Topley, shares what they discovered.
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What promising funding practices contribute to our ability to lead systems change? BC’s food security and food sovereignty community of practice talk it over with some key funders in BC’s food world.
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The Wild Salmon Caravan is now entering its fourth year- the dominant run of the sockeye – to celebrate the spirit of wild salmon and call them home to the streams of rivers of BC.
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Where does fish, fishing, and fisheries fit in the BC food security conversation? Why is it so hard to access seafood in coastal communities?
The Gateway speaks to Cynthia Bendickson with the Greenways Land Trust about their community consultation work on access to seafood in Vancouver Island coastal communities and Abra Brynne, who is working with EcoTrust on fisheries policy.
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