Welcome to the Vancouver home for the 100-Mile Diet!
From salmon to cranberries, British Columbia is blessed with an incredible array of local foods... but do you ever feel stumped on where to find them? Or maybe you're not sure what to do once you've brought them home! Whether you're a locavore, just curious about local food or trying to cut down on your food miles — this site is for you.
Thanks for visiting and please feel free to contribute by sending us ideas on how to make this web page more useful.
What's new
Winter Gardening Course at Langara College
Presented by the Sustainable Living Arts School Read more »
Saturday June 7th
10am - 4pm
Unitarian Centre, 949 West 49th Ave
$85
Foodshed
May 2008 Foodshed Project Update:
We are in the final stages of this project and once again need your help! We are looking for descriptions and pictures of all the agriculture, fishing and wild food areas around Vancouver (southwestern BC and Northwest Washington). Send us pictures, descriptions, the name of “someone we should really talk to” - your help is critical if we are to create a map that accurately portrays this region!
Contact Info:
Kelly Kuryk
kelly(a)100milediet.org
Spot Prawn Festival
Launch date: Saturday May 3rd, 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Duration: The Spot Prawn Festival will run for six to eight weeks.
Buying times: Between 2pm - 6pm daily
Location: False Creek Fishermen’ Wharf, 1505 West 1st Avenue
(North-West of Granville Island, between the Burrard Street Bridge and the Granville Street Bridge - http://www.falsecreek.com/p_map.htm)
Wild Fermentation
Sandor Ellix Katz author of Wild Fermentation
When: June 10
Where: SFU Harbour Centre
Fermented Foods Guru and author of Wild Fermentation, Sandor Ellix Katz will be in Vancouver on Tuesday June 10th at SFU Harbour Centre. Daytime fermented foods workshop 1-4 and 7-9 lecture. The workshop is $40 and the lecture $8 or $45 for both. If you would like to guarantee yourself a spot, pre-register now. You can pay by paypal to farmertomas(a)gmail.com or send a cheque to Thomas Hicks @ 2290 Saint George Street, Vancouver, BC V5T 3R2
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The Future of the UBC Farm
Over the following weeks UBC will be making a decision about the future of Vancouver’s last working farm - the UBC Farm (and Centre for Sustainable Food Systems.) The UBC Farm is a unique asset to the city and region. It provides students and the broader community the opportunity to learn hands-on about how changes in the way food is produced and distributed are a key piece in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mitigating climate change, and in creating healthy local communities and economies.
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Community Gardens
Oh the elusive community gardens of Vancouver - how I wish I had a plot! Do you feel the same way? The City of Vancouver has posted some new information on their web page - visit their new community garden page to get yourself on a waiting list and, who knows, maybe, just maybe, one day you’ll get into one. Check it out:
Community Gardens & the 2010 Challenge
Agriculture Plan
Last week the ministry of Agriculture released its Agriculture Plan. Read it and let us know what you think!
http://www.al.gov.bc.ca/Agriculture_Plan/
terry at UBC
check out the audio and video of James & Alisa speaking at UBC in November.
Faraway food production
By Ben Parfitt
January 24th, from the Georgia Straight
High energy and land costs raise the stakes for B.C. farmers.
Fourth-generation Westham Island farmer Sharon Ellis says that in addition to rising transportation expenses, she faces much higher seed costs to grow pumpkins and squash.
From the air, you can see the arms of the lower Fraser River wrap around Westham Island before spilling into the Strait of Georgia, carrying billions of particles of suspended silt out to sea. Lighter than its salty North Pacific counterpart, the muddy river water rides atop its oceanic cousin, sometimes cutting a brown path right across the strait to the shorelines of Mayne and Galiano islands, a 45-minute ferry ride away. Read more »
The silt eventually settles out, drifting slowly down to the ocean bottom. But back where river meets ocean, thousands of years of freshwater transport following the retreat of the last great glaciers have laid down layer upon layer of silt and sand particles, allowing land to emerge from what was once ocean stretching as far inland as present-day Hope.
Petition Against the B.C. Meat Regulations!
- January update -
BC Meat Inspection Regulations
On the 30th of September, new provincial meat inspection regulations came into effect. Producers are still figuring out how this affects them and their animals. Read more »
