EDUCATION

Here are some links that will help you get the bigger picture. The Hundred Mile Diet is gaining adherents everywhere, everyday.

Local Cuisine, Monday June 14 and 21, 7-9 pm at Bowen Park, Nanaimo.

Sign up through Nanaimo Parks and Recreation Leisure Guide.
Instructors: Karen Hunter & Carrie Holt
Tue, Sep 29-Oct 6 7-9 pm $50 for 2    Course #87086
Bowen Complex
Local Food for Nanaimo invites you to learn about sourcing local foods, cooking using local ingredients and methods to preserve this year's harvest. Join experienced local foods cooks and enthusiasts in learning about locally grown foods and how you can easily incorporate these into your cooking and diet.

We will discuss the 100 mile diet concept and offer new local foods recipes that will leave you amazed! Here's your opportunity to cook with seasonal, local ingredients and learn where to get them!

Sustainable Gastronomy Courses through continuing Education at UVic.

Making Food Matter- Regional Food Strategies in the CRD

Due to the interest in this site, I am starting another page for seed and plant resources.

Food Plant Education Photo Display. Photos of dozens of wild food plants which are plentiful in this area. Barn 4 at the Cowichan Exhibition. Open Monday to Saturday while the grounds are open. Roger Foucher tries to be there to answer questions either Friday or Saturday afternoons. Check out what we learned on our first walk by looking at the Edible Weeds page.

Offset one pound of carbon a day to remove a pound of CO2 from the atmosphere. Care2 will then make a donation to pay for the removal.

Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, is a scathing indictment of the food industry and a call for a return to unprocessed food.

Food Action Coordinating Team- Ladysmith Needs Assessment 2007 Report

Edible Strategies We grow less than 10% of the food we eat on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. This problem of food security has been taken up by a group of community organizations, farmers, small scale food processors and locally owned food businesses who together wish to work towards relocalizing our food system.

Edible Food Strategies Excellent Final Report A downloadable pdf

Cowichan Food Security- Cowichan Green Community

Want to find out about the anonymous group of poultry that has been sending a local councillor postcards for the past 5 months? Click here for Chickens Anonymous.

Sharing Backyards "Imagine a world where everyone has plentiful access to healthy, local, organic food. The goal of the sharing backyards program is to further that goal...."

How to be a Locavore

Wendy R. Holm, P. Ag., award winning journalist. Here are lists of many of her thought provoking aritcles about the future of farming in Canada. Especially the Dec. 2007 Article. It is chilling.

The Knowledge Pantry at FarmFolk/City Folk is a valuable resource for learning about what is in season, where to buy local, who is providing what. While most of the information applies to the lower mainland, some of it refers to Vancouver Island. The site also discusses current food and agriculture news and events.

Small Farm Canada- newletter edited by Tom Henry

How to Find and Eat Local Food What's in season, how to look and where to find. A list of great resources. Out of Vancouver.

Product of Canada, eh? CBC Marketplace uncovers the truth. The CBC Marketplace feature showing how labeling can be deceiving.

Urban Agriculture Resolution passed by City of Victoria

Making Food Matter - Report from the Food Forum 2003

Watching the animals that provide you with meat die. A funny and interesting article from the Chicago Tribune about one woman's journey to eat ethically.

The Food, the Bad and the Ugly

Dietitians of Canada Report on The Cost of Eating in BC 2007

Urban Hennery- Dark Days Challenge ...I live in Washington and write about my hens, dogs, life, cooking, eating locally and whatever else strikes my fancy.

Raw Food Society of BC Raw and Living Foods Communities across the province.

VIHA's Food Security/Community Food Action Initiative

Vancouver Island Diet Recipe Page

Ban the use of cosmetic pestcides

Article Archive. As more articles come in, some articles are removed in the interest of not having a page that is 10 screens long. These articles are still of great interest and worth reading.
January 2008 Archive

Vancouver Island Diet, island diet, Victoria 100 mile diet, Nanaimo 100 mile diet, Duncan 100 mile diet, Vancouver Island 100 mile diet, Campbell River 100 mile diet.