Category: Urban Food Growing
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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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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…
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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,…