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
Thank you Vancity!
Big thanks to Vancity who awarded the 100-Mile Diet Society a Community Project Grant towards our Foodshed Mapping Project!
Vancouver Resources
Wondering where to find local foods?Check out these resources to help get you going!
Preserving
Here are some great sites to help you navigate the wonderful world of preserving:
Food preservation publications and fact sheets available to download
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/foodsafety/foodpres.php
Web Sites
www.PreserveFood.com
Information, procedures, recipes, and safety guidelines for canning, drying, vacuum sealing, freezing
www.HomeCanning.com
Canning information and supplies from Bernardin.
www.wildfermentation.com
Fermentation information with recipes for sauerkraut and sour pickles.
Supplies
Used glass jars are okay as long as they have no cracks or chips and say “mason”.Check out you local thrift shop to see if they have any.
Many stores carry new canning equipment.In Vancouver:
Canadian Tire
Extra Foods
Grocery Stores
(where else?let us know!)
100-Mile Community Kitchen
The “100-Mile Kitchen” is a community kitchen that focuses on preparing, preserving and harvesting local food.
100-Mile Kitchen’s response to Harvey Enchin’s article in the Vancouver Sun
Re: The economic fallacy of ‘eat local, buy local’, Harvey Enchin Sept 28,2007
From an economics perspective the attraction to purchasing local food is that people can clearly see who benefits from their food dollars. If I go to farmer’s market and purchase apples from a farm stand, I know that most of the money that I pay for the apples goes directly to the producer, with a small amount going to the farmers’ market society. My purchase directly supports local growers, and they directly provide me with fresh nourishing food. This is not anti-capitalist, it is capitalism with a face, and purchasing based on values as much as price. In addition to this personalized economic interaction there are benefits such as having the chance to ask questions about how the food was grown and when it was harvested.Contrast this to buying apples at a supermarket. I have no idea which farm grew the apples, how they were grown, or when they were picked. In addition, my food dollar goes in large part to the supermarket, the distributor, the shipper, and other intermediaries - only a small fraction actually goes to the producer. Eating local, is about much more than looking for the lowest price.
Dean Simmons on behalf of the 100 Mile Kitchen Group
Vancouver, BC .
Harper’s Hit on Grain Farmers
Tories will aid US firms by gutting Canadian Wheat Board.
ByAlbert Horner and David Orchard
Published: April 23, 2007
For a year the Harper government has been threatening to destroy the power of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). Agriculture minister Chuck Strahl (who represents Chilliwack, B.C.) says barley will be removed from the Board’s jurisdiction by August 1; a decision on wheat will follow.
In the early 1930s, there was no CWB. Prairie farmers took the price offered by the large grain companies or took their wheat home. Grain sold for a few cents a bushel. Farmers were driven off the land in droves.
Can BC Farmers Feed Our Growing Population?
Read the recently released Ministry of Agriculture report “BC’s Food Self Reliance”
Oil, Climate Change threaten Food Supply: BC Report
Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, April 02, 2007
Climate change and rising oil prices are a threat to B.C.’s ability to feed itself in the future, scientists and planners say.
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Richmond Airphotos: 1930 and 1995
These photos of Richmond reflect the incredible changes in land use and massive loss of farmland in the Lower Mainland.
1995 and 1930
Photos are from SmartGrowth BC, attributed to Kevin Key of KeyPlan.
The Mexican Hot House connection
During our long, dark winters, BC Hot House produce is really shipped fromMexico
Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, April 18,2007
When is a BC Hot House tomato not a B.C. tomato? When it’s grown inMexico.
That little fact annoys consumers like Stephen Hill, who say the company istrading on its B.C. name so that buyers think they are getting homegrownproduce, even though it is actually being shipped thousands of kilometers fromgreenhouses in Mexico.
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Corny Energy ‘Solution’
Last stage of denial: ethanol will save us!
By Murray Dobbin
Published: April 4, 2007
TheTyee.ca
Citizens in industrialized societies, including Canada, will cling to their extravagant lifestyles and massive over-consumption for a while yet, it seems. Global climate change is still seen by most people — even those who have no doubt of its human origins — as something that can be fixed by legislation, tougher rules and punitive penalties on big polluters — and that allegedly clean and green quick fix, ethanol. Read more »
Hopcott Meats
From Bob & Debbie Hopcott
The idea of hormone additive-free & antibiotic free meat is something we have been selling to the public since April of 2004. We have sold hundreds of packages with many being repeat customers, swearing it was the best meat they have ever eaten.
