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
Salt Spring Island’s 10th Annual Apple Festival
Celebrating Red-Fleshed Apples: The apples of the future
Sunday Sept 28, 2008
This is your chance to visit Apple Heaven while still on earth! Become a Salt Spring Island Apple Connoisseur for a day.
Where else do you have over 350 different apple varieties being grown organically? Salt Spring’s apple history dates back to 1860. Explore our incredible island, the Organic Gardening Capital of Canada.
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Feast of Fields
FarmFolk/CityFolk’s annual event is coming up - do you have your ticket yet??
Sea to Sky - August 30th - Whistler
Lower Mainland - September 7th - UBC Farm
Vancouver Island - September 21st - Saanich
FarmFolk/CityFolk’s Knowledge Pantry
are you looking for a caterer, restaurant, other information about local food? Check out FarmFolk/CityFolk’s Knowledge Pantry.
http://ffcf.bc.ca/NewSiteFiles/resources/knowledge_pantry.html
BC farm products
this web site was recently recommended as a good resource for anyone who wants to find our more about BC’s agriculture products.
http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/aboutind/products/
www.onedaybowen.ca
OneDayBowen recently celebrated their island’s “against-all-odds” agriculture community. check out photos and their web site:
Burnaby Farmers’ Market
The City of Burnaby is pleased to announce the operation of a seasonal Farmers’ Market in the north parking lot of City Hall, located at 4949 Canada Way (near Deer Lake Parkway).
The market will operate every Saturday from June 14 to October 25 – 10 am to 2 pm.
The Burnaby Farmers’ Market will feature organic and non-organic produce, pottery, baking, honey, jams, jewellery, crafts and more. A book exchange, children’s play tent, and local musicians will also provide entertainment for the whole family. For a weekly schedule of farmers, crafters and community participants, please visit: http://www.artisanmarkets.ca.
The market is served by several bus routes, including bus #123 along Canada Way, and buses #110 and #144 along Deer Lake Parkway. To plan your route by transit, please visit: http://tripplanning.translink.bc.ca. Limited parking is also available on-site.
For more information on the Burnaby Farmers’ Market, please contact the City of Burnaby at 604.294.7421.
Green Your Campbell Cash
This June, every British Columbian will receive a Climate Action Dividend of $100 as part of the B.C. government’s “revenue neutral” carbon tax announced earlier this year.
That’s $440 million that could be put toward climate-action projects. We’re writing to invite you to be part of a campaign that inspires British Columbians to do just that.
The Green Your Campbell Cash project is a web outreach campaign developed by The Tyee, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute to showcase and raise support for climate action projects occurring in B.C.
Our intent is to encourage collective action on climate change by inviting groups and individuals to showcase their projects on a website where British Columbians will be able to pledge their support (and their dividend).
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
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
