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 the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS), hosted by by UFRIS Lead Mary P Brooke.
Speakers addressed a range of topics that feed into the success of urban food growing by households and other built-structure environments like office buildings, warehouses, and schools.
“We’re supporting a lot of things here today — nutrition and growing of food for economic reasons, and working with the municipalities to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to do this,” said Brooke.
They shared tips for successful food growing, how municipalities can be supportive in this venture, food storage for emergencies, soil development, and water supply usage and conservation.
Read the full article: Mid-summer UFRIS panel explores urban food growing, emergency storage
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