Author: urbanfoodstuff
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We’re excited about Porcher Park!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by the UFRIS Team The City of Langford is about to launch their first community garden in 2025. It’s located on Wren Place in central Langford, next to a playground, public park, and natural forested area. Quite the jewel of a location! The park will offer growing plots…
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Food security under threat from US tariffs
Saturday February 1, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS As of February 4, 2025 there will be a tariff of 25% imposed on all Canadian exports to the US. Canada sends a lot of food products to the United States; the cost of those products will shoot up for Americans…
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Environmental Expo in the west shore on Jan 11, 2025
Thursday January 9, 2025 | COLWOOD, BC Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) will be participating in the one-day Environmental Expo in Colwood on Saturday January 11, 2025. UFRIS will have an information table about developing the opportunities and capacity for growing natural food in urban spaces. UFRIS Executive Lead Mary P Brooke will deliver…
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Robust progress coming for UFRIS in 2025
Friday December 27, 2024 | LANGFORD, BC The Urban Food Resilience Initiative Society (UFRIS) had a modest but effective launch in 2024, with more progress, projects, advocacy and expansion to come in 2025. Household reliance on the corporate food supply system can be softened to the degree that households can grow their own food or…
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Urban food recommendations to the Premier’s transition team
Thursday November 7, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC As part of the continuing work of Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) to improve the availability and effective distribution of natural-grown food in urban communities, our group has respectfully submitted these recommended action items for consideration for inclusion in the appropriate Minister’s mandate letters in the 43rd…
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Composting your Halloween pumpkins!
Thursday October 31, 2024 | LANGFORD, BC We hope you will give your pumpkin a second shot at making a special contribution to Halloween. First as a jack-o-lantern, and then as part of the growing season for next year by including it in your compost bin. You’ve already gutted out the pumpkins and saved the…
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UFRIS at the WorkBC Jobs Fair Sept 2024
On September 26, 2024 the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) participated in the WorkBC Jobs Fair in Langford. We introduced three possible volunteer or paid-project opportunities: Neighbourhood Pod Connector | Community Garden Ambassador | Workshop Host. During the four-hour event we answered questions non-stop about the importance of growing natural food in urban spaces,…
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We chatted about urban food growing at the Sooke Night Market
Saturday August 17, 2024 | SOOKE, BC It was a busy night at the Sooke Night Market on Thursday August 15 on the grounds of the Sooke Region Museum. Our Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) info booth was there for the three-hour event. We had lots of great conversations with visitors to our booth,…
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Urban Food Resilience info booth at Sooke Night Market Aug 15
Friday August 9, 2024 | Vancouver Island, BC On Thursday evening August 15, 2024 Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) will have an info booth at Sooke Night Market, 5 to 8 pm (on the Sooke Region Museum grounds, 2070 Phillips Rd, Sooke). Drop by to find out more about the UFRIS goal to facilitate…
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Mid-summer UFRIS panel explores urban food growing, emergency storage
July 28, 2024 | VIEW ROYAL, BC By Mary P Brooke, B.Sc. | As first published by Island Social Trends Exploring ways to mobilize more municipal action around food-growing and storage in urban communities was the focus of a four-speaker panel in View Royal last week. The highly-informative July 24 two-hour panel event was organized by…