To all who garden and preserve food, to all who care for food sovereignty: Happy New Year 2018! Is winter, time to slow down and set goals for the rest of the year, time for planning the garden and re-assessing the pantry. Here are some ideas to start or improve your food sovereignty: At the […]
Read MoreFood Sovereignty Survey
“Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us. “ ~Winona LaDuke “Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No […]
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Every year across Metro Vancouver, residents throw out more than 100,000 tonnes of food. To put that in perspective, each day residents across our communities send more than 15,000 heads of lettuce, 40,000 tomatoes, 80,000 potatoes, 32,000 loaves of bread, and 70,000 cups of milk to the landfill. Sustainability advocate and SFU lecturer Alia Sunderji […]
Read More3 Simple Things You Can Do to Support Food Security
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. — Samuel Johnson The concept of food security means different things to different people. With the abundance of food easily available at local grocery stores, some may wonder why it is even a topic of concern at all. So what […]
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