Category: Langford
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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…
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Urban Food Panel addresses municipal food-growing capacity
NEWS RELEASE – July 23, 2024 Urban Food Panel addresses municipal food-growing capacity LANGFORD, BC. The role of municipalities in providing suitable infrastructure for the growing of natural food in urban spaces is essential now in these times of increasing food prices and emergency scenarios. The Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) was launched in…
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Urban Food Panel July 24, 2024
A panel of experts will discuss urban food growing and emergency storage at a free Urban Food Panel on Wednesday July 24, 2024 in View Royal. The 2-hour panel will hear from four speakers covering topics like soil regeneration, infrastructure for food growing in all types of homes and buildings, solar panel energy for backup,…
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Launching UFRIS
June 10, 2024. The new Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) was launched in January 2024. We promote food-growing by households in the South Vancouver Island region, with support from municipalities and other levels of government. Visit our About UFRIS section for more about our mission and how you can get involved. See the UFRIS…