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UPCOMING EVENTS

EPIC:

The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo, May 13-15, 2011 at the Vancouver Convention Centre West.

EPIC is a sustainable lifestyle consumer show and features numerous local, organic, sustainable food producers. For more information go to their website: www.epicvancouver.com

Vancouver Island Diet and 100 Mile Diet
IN THE NEWS

Backyard Farming Fight has High Stakes Countrywide. From the Times Colonist Nov. 25, 2010. "The shutdown of a rural farm on residential property in Lantzville has sent ripples through the urban farming network across the country. Bylaw officers ordered Dirk Becker and Nicole Shaw to stop growing food on their Fernmar Road farm because it violated home-business regulations that do not include agriculture...."
Push for local foods prompts grocers to go independent. July 15, 2009
Beban Park Farm Marketers to Promote 100 Mile Diet Daily News May 14, 2009

From Sap to Sugar Shack - Alberni Valley News, Feb. 5, 2009
Tapping Big Leaf Maples on Vancouver Island.

Illicit chickens popping up everywhere
How Secure is our Food Supply. Vancouver Sun, May 17, 2008

100 Miles for 100 Days- Abbotsford Mission Times April 22, 2008

Liberal Whip Randy Hawes Takes up 100 Mile Diet-Georgia Strait Apr. 16, 2008

Know Where Your food is coming From. Ottawa citizen April 9, 2008

The Local Grain Revolution text and podcasts explore the creation of a project launched by two conservation groups wishing to experiment with the creation of a local grain market in the middle of the mountains of British Columbia.

Consumers will soon have food labels that tell them how close to home their groceries come from. Prince George Citizen. Monday, Feb. 18/08

New Victory Gardens Plant Seeds of Change. Newbury Port Wicked Local Feb 16/08

Fish Farms directly responsible for falling stocks of wild salmon and trout. Vancouver Sun, Feb. 13/08

The 100 Inch Diet from the San Francisco Chronicle Feb 2, 2008..ha ha, they beat you, Don, sorry!

 

Issues of General Concern

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

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