Resource Category: Urban Food Growing and Gathering

Planning for Food Security: A Toolkit for the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: First Nations Health Authority
• Category: Covid 19, Decolonization, Food Safety, Indigenous food sovereignty, Procurement, Remote, Seafood, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document
• Type: Guide/toolkit

Toolkit includes ideas, templates, tools and information to support planning for food security during pandemic and beyond.

Seeds donated to Heiltsuk Nation Granny Gardens Food Security Initiative

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: Qqs Society
• Category: Community, Decolonization, Environment, Health, Indigenous food sovereignty, Remote, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Video
• Type: Video

The Granny Gardens initiative by the QQS Project Society is their response to Victory Gardens, harnessing their 10+ years of food security work into a resilience movement for individuals and families in Bella Bella to grow and harvest their own food during these uncertain times.

Community Gardens in Pandemic Times

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: BC Food Security Gateway Community of Practice
• Category: Covid 19, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Website/page
• Type: Blog post

This blog post will be updated with guidelines on how to steward community gardens safely in pandemic times. Examples of signage are included as well.

City of Victoria: Food Production on Private Lands Inventory

• Year Published: 2019
• Source: Victoria Urban Food Table
• Category: Community of Practice, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document
• Type: Report/synthesis

This report shares results of a survey of City of Victoria residents that produce food on private land.