Web Links

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.

EatLocalChallenge.com is a US based site and group blog from contributors interested in eating and supporting producers of food grown and produced in their local foodshed.

Island Grains is a resource and support network for people interested in backyard grain growing. The site offers easy step-by-step instruction on small-scale grain production.

"Urban Grains is a community supported agriculture program based in Vancouver, B.C. Our first year of operation (2009) is a pilot project aimed at demonstrating new possibilities for local eating by providing Vancouver residents with access to grain grown locally in Agassiz, B.C."

Vancouver Island food security site

"Nurturing the biodynamic movement in North America through education, research, and development"

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:

Find local sustainable organic food nation wide

Buy local guide for community supported agriculture

An extensive one page recipe collection of gluten free recipies

Search for Community Kitchens & Cooking/Nutritional Skill Building Programs This search tool connects people with community kitchens and programs.

http://www.youville.ca/english/links.html

Find local sustainable organic food nation wide

Buy local guide for community supported agriculture

"Check Your Head is a youth-driven organization that provides education for young people on the issues such as democracy, corporate power, globalization, climate change and many more issues that matter most to youth and our communities locally and globally. Our work is motivated by the understanding that a healthy, democratic and sustainable future depends on a generation of informed, empowered and active young people."

The BC Association of Farmers' Markets (BCAFM) represents farmers' markets throughout the Province.

New Blog from Edmonton Chef Chael MacDonald, "Dew Drops is a blog about fresh local food, and its use in the professional kitchen. I’m a Canadian cook who feels passionately invested in ensuring that I have access to highest quality ingredients, which are produced in a sustainable way. "

spud! is an organic grocery delivery service dedicated to providing a full selection of the freshest, most local, organic and natural foods to residents and office employees throughout Greater Vancouver and north to Whistler and Pemberton.

We also deliver in two other Canadian locations (southern Vancouver Island and Calgary) and four American locations (Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles).

Our prices are the same as local retailers and delivery is free on most orders over $35 (up to $60 in some areas).

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

"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."

Food safety facts for fruits and vegetables

High-impact food gardens in high-profile places is the motto of US based Eat Your View - a network of gardners that educate and promote planting your own food.

Every Lawn A Garden's objective is to help persons increase their capacity for
gardening so that everyone can reach the stage of growing some of their own food supply and to work with communities to support and encourage local food systems and increase food security.

The Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) is pleased to announce the launch of the "Farm To School Salad Bar" website. PHABC is the lead on Farm to School Salad Bar, a BC Healthy Living Alliance initiative, proudly supported by ActNow BC. The site can be visited by clicking

Member-owned and working to secure their community's access to local and sustainable food sources; FoodRoots Distributor Co-operative is a great example of CED principles in action.

The Richmond Food Security Action Group oversees the planning of the activities and events of the Society. Join us at 3:30PM on the third Thursday of the month at the red barn at  Terra Nova Rural Park.

Sharing Backyards encourages urban gardening by connecting those who have space to garden and are willing to share with those who would like to have a gardening space. The program makes maximum use of city space by making sure that even those who dwell in apartments, condos, and shared housing have ample place to garden. It connects neighbours of different socio-economic conditions together in a atmosphere of trust while doing something that beautifies the homeowner's yard and provides food for everyone.

The Cost of Eating in BC 2009: Low-income British Columbians can't afford healthy food.

The Renfrew Collingwood Food Security Institute aims to increase individual, family, and community capacity to attain food security. The Institute develops community learning, leadership, and networking, around the issues of food sharing, organic growing, and nutrition in the Renfrew Collingwood community.

"We are what we eat. The Whistler2020 Community Food Strategy and task force is a broad representation of the regional food expertise and opportunity which exists in the Sea to Sky Corridor. Including farmers and fishers, First Nations and five star restaurants, our region has planted the seeds of action as we strengthen our local food system, enhance our production capacity and grow the world's knowledge about the quality, diversity and health of our landscapes, products and producers. The table is set, come join us."

"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."

"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).

ICC Brings chefs and farmers together as partners and works to create an environment where independent local food producers prosper. ICC actively pursues purchasing from local suppliers, aids efforts with money raised through ICC events and increases consumer awareness of locally produced foodstuffs by featuring them on menus. ICC also educates the public about the ecological and economic benefits of buying locally.

NOWBC, is a source for local, organic, sustainable foods and groceries with deliveries to neighbourhoods in the Metro Vancouver area.
Their mission is "to build a sustainable local food system by connecting local farms and processors with consumers and building community around sustainable food choices."

"Terralicious offers 6-week Courses and individual Classes on food gardening, health, and cooking in addition to spring break and summer Farm camps for kids. At the Haliburton Farm stand and the ever-popular Moss St. Market, we sell a bevy of delicious certified organic vegetables and plant starts fresh from our greenhouse and garden. See the Terralicious gallery or Facebook page for some mouth-watering photos.

"The Garden Institute creates educational materials and manages projects that support organic agriculture, organic gardening, local food production, communty seed banks and use of heritage seeds. We work in Canada and overseas."

Shopper's guide to avoiding genetically modified organisms

"Grassroot Solutions is the site promoting Sharon Rempel's work with heritage gardens, heritage wheat, Red Fife wheat, seed exchanges, seed banks, 100 mile diet food 'profits', local food and organic food. Sharon is President of The Garden Institute of B.C. and is creating a GIS database to link heritage seed variety to soil type and to climate. This web 'gene bank' of variety information, quality information and growing information will hopefully help people find varieties suited to their field as the climate change happens."

Island Grains is a resource and support network for people interested in backyard grain growing. The site offers easy step-by-step instruction on small-scale grain production.

"Urban Grains is a community supported agriculture program based in Vancouver, B.C. Our first year of operation (2009) is a pilot project aimed at demonstrating new possibilities for local eating by providing Vancouver residents with access to grain grown locally in Agassiz, B.C."

Edible Communities is a network of local food publications featuring the latest local food news.

NAHO: Aboriginal Health and Fitness - Healthy Living – New website - Healthy Living is an initiative of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. The Web site promotes individuals, sports and recreation programs in First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. In addition to showcasing individual and community stories of getting active and living healthy, the site provides a place to highlight the achievements of Aboriginal athletes.

Find local sustainable organic food nation wide

Permaculture online education

Online map of the Gumboot Cafe's permaculture gardens

"Here at Pacific Permaculture we effectively spread permaculture through: education and community building. We offer a range of high quality workshops and courses taught by knowledgeable, enthusiastic and experienced teachers. Building on experience from around the globe Pacific Permaculture is striking strong roots in western Canada."

"The Get Out Migration is the logical next step in an effort to remove the impact of salmon farms on wild fish and ecosystems. When government refused to heed international warnings BC scientists produced over 20 scientific papers on the impact of salmon farms in BC. As a result there were temporary measures enacted in the Broughton Archipelago where the work took place (see: Provincial Pink Salmon Action Plan), but government refused to apply this knowledge coast wide.

"This website is the first attempt we know of to rate restaurants that serve fish not only for the quality of their food but also for the effect they are having on the seas and on marine life. We have come to realise in the past decade or so that fishing – or rather overfishing – is the main influence on 70 per cent of the planet’s surface.

"SPIN-Farming is a non-technical, easy-to-learn and inexpensive-to-implement vegetable farming system that makes it possible to earn significant income from land bases under an acre in size."

:The Source/La Source is a bilingual directory designed to assist researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students identify and access sources of health data for women and girls in British Columbia, Manitoba, as well as national data sources. The directory includes an introductory gender based analysis for each topic"