At the end of every wormshop, I used to take the school children on a tour of the compost garden. I’d already shown them how […] Read More
Category: food security
A colleague of mine sent out a link to an artist’s website that show’s how powerful the message can be when art and food combine. […] Read More
I was at a meditation retreat outside of Portland on the weekend. It was held at Queen of Angels Monastery. The Benedictine Sisters who call […] Read More
I was at a Vancouver Food Policy Council (VFPC) event last Wednesday night at the gorgeous new Creekside Community Centre in the Olympic Village. The […] Read More
As part of a City of Vancouver Greenest City Grant, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House in partnership with the Westside Food Security Collaborative is implementing a food […] Read More
I first read about the Brazilian town of Belo Horizonte in the book Hope’s Edge, the Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Putnam, 2002) by […] Read More
Just back from the Okanagan. I spent nearly two weeks of the summer “at home”. I still call it that because my folks and now […] Read More
The Vancouver Courier, one of our community papers wrote a piece on our “pocket” markets this week. We, the Westside Food Security Collaborative are doing […] Read More
We were speechless. We were the Westside Food Security Collaborative (WFSC), a group of service providers, groups and citizens concerned about food issues in our […] Read More
I do tours. Tours on things that are green and sustainable. I started the Green Scenes program with partner Simon Fraser University Centre for Sustainable […] Read More