Category: Langford
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Community event at Porcher Park on May 10, 2025
Friday May 2, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC [Updated May 5, 2025] The opening season of the first year at Porcher Park Community Garden starts with an event on Saturday May 10. This first community garden in Langford is for people who grow food! It will support households and provide donated food to the broader community…
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Get ready to grow at Porcher Park!
Monday April 14, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC The City of Langford’s community garden at Porcher Park will be up and running for growing veggies and fruits in this year’s growing season. The Operator of the garden is the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS). Porcher Park is on Wren Place in downtown Langford. The park…
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2025 Earth Day Event in Langford
Wednesday April 9, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT The City of Langford will be celebrating Earth Day by hosting an official opening of Porcher Park! Earth Day is on April 22 every year. The Porcher Park opening event is coming up on Tuesday April 22, 2025. Time tba. The public is invited to hear…
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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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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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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…