Web Links

"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."