[BCFSN] Open House at Emma's Acres on April 25th, 2015 from 10am-2pm

[seflett at telus.net]

Hi David,

I’ve attached a copy of a demand estimate we did for beef (all beef, local beef and grassfeed beef) demand in our region as an example. We took the per capita demand for beef, applied that over our local populations, and then applied a 10% local consumption target and a 3% grassfed beef target. For example, in Terrace (which has a similar population as Powell River), approximately 554,281 lbs of beef is consumed annually, which translates to approximately 924 animals. If you aspired to a 10% local beef target, you could expect a demand for 92 animals from local producers.

The interesting result of this exercise was that a) we demonstrated that our region (hwy 16) produces far more beef cattle than the local population could ever consume and b) that our local abattoirs have the capacity to process 19% of the area’s beef demand, and are actually already processing about 10% - which means we’ve likely achieved a 10% local consumption target for beef in our region – yay!

This kind of data can be applied to many food staples that have per capita consumption statistics, and then combined with your own survey data. Feel free to call if you would like further explanation.

Thanks,

Jillian Merrick
Project Coordinator
Beyond the Market
1566-7th Ave., Prince George | P: 250-562-9622 ext 115 | F: 250 562 9119 | www.beyondthemarket.ca<http://cfdc.bc.ca/projects/beyond-the-market> | www.cfdc.bc.ca<http://cfdc.bc.ca/>

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From: David Parkinson [mailto:parkidavid at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:25 PM
To: food at bcfsn.org
Subject: [BCFSN] Looking for data on customer demand for local food & producer demand for farmland & shared facilities

Dear BC Food Systems Network hive mind,

A local society here in Powell River is trying to assemble data to support the case for a community farm & teaching farm in the region.

They are looking at surveying consumers to gauge demand for more locally-produced food, and also trying to make the case for community-owned facilities (equipment, processing, possibly slaughter/dairy) as an incentive for recruiting more and younger farmers to the region.

Most of these data will have to come from local surveys & focus groups, but we're wondering if people out there have access to similar sorts of surveys for other regions in BC or for the province as a whole.

If you don't know how to access such data but you know someone who might, please feel free to send the contact info my way. And of course if you have expertise or knowledge about this information for your region, let me know as well.

Thanking you in advance...

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David
​ Parkinson
Powell River (Traditional territory of the Sliammon First Nation)​
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