BC Business magazine discusses urban agriculture

The VFPC's own Janine de la Salle is featured along with former VFPC liaison Peter Ladner in an interesting round table discussion about Urban Agriculture in the current issue of BC Business magazine. You can read the full article online at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2010/03/03/vancouver039s-....

An excerpt:

Whether it’s fish farms or growing food that adds value to our food system, what do we need to do to make this happen in Vancouver?
DE LA SALLE: At a policy level there can be some land-use changes to allow for more agriculture activities to be permitted in the city. There has to be a more sensitive interpretation of the existing health and safety regulations. In the rural context, the provincial meat regulations have basically shut down small-scale meat processing in B.C.

We also need to develop tools for designers and developers, people who are actually building on the land and determining what happens with the land, to allow for more opportunity for the agricultural entrepreneurs out there