By
Davinia Yip
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Flickr / jwalsh |
Published: July 08, 2010
Learn the art of sustainable urban gardening with food security expert Robin Wheeler on July 13, 2010
Founder of the
Sustainable Living Arts School and author of
Food Security for the Faint of Heart, Robin Wheeler is an experienced teacher in helping city dwellers learn the fine and practical art of growing food for healthy sustenance.
By Colleen Tang
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Published: June 18, 2010
Inner-city farm in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside provides fresh food and employment for the community
Rain or shine, Rob, the farm organizer at
SOLEfood Urban Farm in the Downtown Eastside, can be seen as early as 7 a.m., sometimes even 6, walking up and down the soil beds of growing fruits and vegetables.
By Colleen Tang
| Image: Colleen Tang |
Published: June 18, 2010
A community's farm
SOLEfood, located next to the Astoria Hotel in Vancouver, is a "full production farm in the Downtown Eastside," says project manager Seann Dory. The objective is to provide employment and a sustainable source of fresh and healthy foods for inner-city residents.
Read the full story:
SOLEfood, a community's farm by Colleen Tang
By
Jeff Nield
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Flickr / Jill Clardy |
Published: May 28, 2010
From neighbourhood food networks to Fair Trade food and local produce, Vancouver's food security movement is growing
Vancouverites live in a time and place that is ripe for the rebirth of an ailing food system. Our collective relationship to food is changing, and we are discovering countless ways to feed ourselves and make thoughtful food choices that in turn help others.
By Hilary Henegar
| Image: Grant Baldwin, The Clean Bin Project |
Published: May 26, 2010
From throwing McDonald’s leftovers out the car window to refusing disposable cups, local Vancouverites embark on year-long challenge to go waste-free. Watch the film this Saturday
By Sharon Hanna & Hilary Henegar
| Image: Hilary Henegar |
Published: April 19, 2010
Granville digital editor calls in Vancouver gardening consultant Sharon Hanna for a lesson in gardening 101
By Krista Eide
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Published: March 03, 2010
Gardening workshops teach novice Vancouver gardeners planning basics—and let them get their hands dirty
By David Jordan
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Published: November 09, 2009
Vancouver will never feed all its hungry as long as the issue is framed as “food security”
It’s been eight months since I posted my editorial questioning the relevance of food security to Vancouver, and it remains one of the most popular pages on our website. I obviously touched a nerve. And equally obviously, there’s no middle ground: I’m either on the “food security” bus or I’m a propagandist for big industry, cozying up to climate-change deniers.
But I have no argument with the principles of food security; my argument remains a question of language. As defined by the World Health Organization, food security refers to all those forces of globalization and industrialization that threaten the world’s ability to feed its inhabitants. But when the phrase migrates to local discussions, it spawns fuzzy thinking that threatens to derail important initiatives aimed at addressing poverty and hunger in Vancouver, and at defending agriculture’s vital role in a sustainable city.
There are at least three distinct challenges to local agriculture and to our ability to feed our own citizens, and we’ll never confront them head on as long as we mistakenly frame them as issues of “food security.”
By Hilary Henegar
| Image: Hubert Kang |
Published: September 18, 2009
As City staff finalize their recommendation for the
backyard chickens bylaw, which would allow Vancouver residents to keep egg-layers on their property,
Village Vancouver and Fork in the Road are hosting three neighbourhood Backyard Chickens 101 learning parties with Heather Havens this Sunday, September 20, 2009.
By
Danielle Carrie
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Flickr / iLoveButter |
Published: September 01, 2009
Reality check: eating organic is worth the extra money!
