[BCFSN] BC bits from local food news Canada

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Info about this newsletter is at the bottom, here are the BC bits plus a Huff Post blog.

 

From: Local Food News [mailto:localfoodnews at terracoeur.ca] 
Sent: June-30-16 6:59 AM
To: LocalFood at terracoeur.com
Subject: [Local Food News] Canada, June 30, 2016

 

VeggieWagonLogosquare.pngLocal Food News - Canada

 

Curator/Editor, Elbert van Donkersgoed

June 30, 2016

 

 

Stetski tables bill to establish national local food day

In a bid to recognize and encourage the local food movement, NDP MP Wayne Stetski for
Kootenay-Columbia has introduced a bill to establish a National Local Food Day on the Friday before
Thanksgiving every year. A number of community figures in the Kootenays came out in support of the
concept, including Sophie Larsen, project coordinator of the Cranbrook Food Action Committee.
Revelstoke Mountaineer story
<http://www.revelstokemountaineer.com/stetski-tables-bill-to-establish-national-local-food-day-13010
> .

 

Welcome To Apple Heaven

A chance to visit Apple Heaven while still on earth! Every year we celebrate our apples at The Salt
Spring Island Apple Festival. Salt Spring Island, BC grows over 450 varieties of apples ORGANICALLY,
with an apple history dating back to 1860. Salt Spring Island is a small island (80 square miles) of
11,000 people in the Strait of Georgia between Victoria and Vancouver, BC, Canada.  We are accessed
via BC Ferries routes to Fulford, Vesuvius and Long Harbour, and by float plane..
<http://saltspringapplefestival.org/> Website

 

Why Buying Local Really Means Supporting Your Community

But "fast and convenient" has weakened our communities. As the African proverb says, "If you want to
go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Big food corporations want to grow fast so
they go alone. But for our local communities to go far, we must go together. And homegrown
businesses are a critical link for a strong, vibrant, healthy community; nowhere is this more
prevalent than our local food economy. Huffington Post Canada
<http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ryan-spong/big-box-retailers-communities_b_10213098.html> blog.

 

Portrait of an urban farmer

You could say farming is in Leila Trickey's genes. Her homesteader parents and five siblings lived
on an Ontario farm, and her childhood was shaped by wide open spaces and fresh earth. When Trickey
grew up, she moved to more urban pastures, but she still felt a nostalgia for the land. It's no
surprise she jumped at the chance to rent a plot in the agricultural land reserve so she could grow
her own food. She now runs a small farm with her partner, Dave Carlson, in Burnaby's Big Bend area.
They have goats for milking, fresh eggs, honeybees and an abundance of organic produce. They grow
squash, tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers, beans, peas, kohlrabi, fennel and kale. Burnaby
Now  <http://www.burnabynow.com/community/leila-trickey-portrait-of-an-urban-farmer-1.2195193>
story.

 

 

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Food News website. This includes an archive of current and past issues of Local Food News. You can
also follow possibility thinking for local food systems by following the tweets about locally grown
food and near-urban agriculture: https://twitter.com/RelocalizedFood.

 <https://twitter.com/RelocalizedFood> To learn more about the interests and involvements of Elbert
van Donkersgoed:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elbertvandonkersgoed <https://twitter.com/RelocalizedFood> ;

https://harvest4hunger.wordpress.com/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/elbertvandonkersgoed> .

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