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
We’re still working on this online version of the Foodshed Map but we’d love for you to try it out and give us feedback.
Features:
* Type in your address to find your 100-Mile Circle *
* Find various local food products, farm gate sales, u-picks, stores, farmers markets, and more *
* Add on features not listed by creating an account and using our wiki-map. *
The online version of the Foodshed Map is a collaboration between the 100-Mile Diet Society and Lifecycles Project Society.
IMAGINE…
…a beautiful map of southwestern British Columbia illustrating our local foodshed…
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
The 100-Mile Diet experiment has forced us to ask: “Where does my food come from?”, “What grows in this region and when?”. Walk into an average supermarket for your weekly groceries and the answers to those questions are far from clear.
To help answer these questions we have initiated a project to create a local foodshed map of southwestern British Columbia. The map will illustrate the location and seasonal availability of local foods, where foods are processed and where they are available.
Thank you to the generous support of Vancity and the Metro Vancouver Agriculture Advisory Committee for helping us make this project possible!
