Web Resources
100 Mile Diet Vancouver
The Vancouver 100-Mile Diet Foodshed Map takes the tradition of bioregional mapping to a new edge. It is a wild, hand-built looking poster crowded with painted images and narrative blurbs that evoke the area’s food culture. Centrepiece to the poster is a map that illustrates the geographic extent of Vancouver’s 100-Mile Diet.
40 Ways to Encourage More Local Food Production
A great how-to program to promote local eating at every level, from individual to government. Here’s the collected wisdom of Guy Dauncey and Carolyn Herriot of Earth Future in Victoria, BC:
BC Farmers Market. org
The BC Association of Farmers' Markets (BCAFM) represents farmers' markets throughout the Province.
BC Food Security Gateway
The Food Security Gateway is a "one stop" Web resource for food security practitioners and others in British Columbia which offers information and links to projects, publications, tools, guides, news, events initiatives and organizations in British Columbia
BC Food Systems Network
"The Network was formed in September, 1999, to link people all over the province involved in community-level action related to food. In keeping with the holistic perspective of the local food security and food policy organizations, the Network emphasizes the way in which food issues cross cultures, sectors, and age groups. Through an email network and annual meetings, we share insights, initiatives, strategies and critical analysis of events in the food system and our own work."
Bio dynamic Farming and Garden Association
"Nurturing the biodynamic movement in North America through education, research, and development"
Bowen Agricultural Alliance
"The Bowen Agricultural Alliance (Baa) is a fledgling community network with a mission to promote and facilitate the development of local food systems, agriculture, and community building on Bowen Island, British Columbia. As of mid-November 2009, BAA is an informal organization working to convene community discussion and action planning."
Canadain Organic Growers
"Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is a national charitable organization (13014 0494 RR0001) with members in all regions of Canada. COG is connected to the regions through thirteen regional Chapters, four affiliated organizations, and to the international organic community through membership in the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).
Links At A Glance
In order of most recent submission
- Canadain Organic Growers
- Richmond Food Security Society
- The Cost of Eating in BC 2009
- Spud
- Bowen Agricultural Alliance
- Sharing Backyards
- West Coast Seeds
- Sea Choice
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Communtiy Kitchens.ca
- BC Food Security Gateway
- 100 Mile Diet Vancouver
- The Renfrew Collingwood Food Security Insti
- Eat The View
- Edible Garden Project
- Edible Communites
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Vancouver Island Diet
- Urban Grains
- Island Grains
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FS Research .ca
Gather.ca News
- 500 Words for Change in America: As if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
- Movie Review: Pig Business or Business Pigs?
- Gather Round the Table: Another Assault on the SOLE Food Movement
- Failure to Cultivate: A Response to Caitlin Flanagan on School Gardens
- Gather Round the Table: Making Wine at Home (plus a great ceviche recipe!)
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