Category: Urban Food Growing
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Notice of UFRIS 2025 Annual General Meeting
Thursday November 6, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC Posted by UFRIS Sunday November 16, 2025. UFRIS Annual General Meeting. 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Location: Starbucks at 2972 Jacklin Rd, Langford. Parking: parking lot. Everyone welcome. Request agenda by email. info@urbanfoodresilience.ca
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Why urban households need to grow their own food
November 5, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society Growing food is something people, families and communities have done for thousands of years. In today’s modern world we have become almost entirely reliant on food supplied by groceries stores, and sadly (though thankfully) also by food banks…
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New mandate letters for BC Ministers of Agriculture/Food & Housing/Municipal Affairs
Sunday July 20, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke, B.Sc., Executive Lead, Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society On July 17, 2025 the Premier of British Columbia issued new mandate letters to his cabinet, including to the Minister of Agriculture of Food Premier David Eby has kept Lana Popham in the role of Minister…
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Happy Canada Day to fellow gardeners!
Tuesday July 1, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, B.Sc., Executive Lead, UFRIS Happy Canada Day, fellow gardeners! Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) is happy about the warm weather which helps our gardens grow! Watering gardens on a regular basis is so important in hot dry weather. South Vancouver Island has experienced…
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Langford OCP includes food security goals that align with UFRIS recommendations
Wednesday May 21, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS On Tuesday evening May 20, City of Langford council heard a fullsome presentation of their new draft Official Community Plan (OCP) which includes Part 13 – Food Systems and Security. Naturally, the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) supports all steps…
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We’re seeking donations of gardening tools & equipment
Saturday May 17, 2025 by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS Porcher Park Community Garden at 822 Wren Place in central Langford has food-growing plots for household resilience and food donation to community. Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS) operates the garden on behalf of the City of Langford. The City of Langford has paid…
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Food-growers connect at Porcher Park Community Garden
Sunday May 11, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke, Executive Lead, UFRIS It was a rainy setup on Saturday morning May 10 for our UFRIS meet-and-greet at Porcher Park Community Garden. But the sun came out and so did Langford food-growing enthusiasts! Thank you to our volunteer setup crew and everyone who visited.…
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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…