Category: municipalities
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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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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…
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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,…