Indigenous

From The Province: Aboriginal Eastsiders find dignity in growing food

Submitted by cshore on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 20:51

Tags: Community Gardens, Food Security, Indigenous

The Province ran a story today about the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden at UBC Farm that will be of interest to food policy types.

Check it out at http://www.theprovince.com/health/Aboriginal+Eastsiders+find+dignity+gro....

Indigenous Food Security in the City of Vancouver

Submitted by Cedarcopperwoman on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 16:27

Tags: De-colonizing Indigenous Foods, Food Soveriegnty, Indigenous

Indigenous Food Security Starts in your home

Chexw Ma Hal7h! Siyam and Siyay! T'Uy'Tanat kwi en snas! Cease Wyss Nia7mun! My family is the Nahanee Family, from the Skwxwu7mesh Nation, and the Williams Family from Sto:lo Nation, the Wyss family from the Swiss Nation, and the Nihinu Family of Hawaii. Welcome to my beautiful home that you all know as Vancouver, and is known as many village names throughout this area, continuously inhabited by the Coast Salish People: Skwxwu7mesh, Whu- Muthqueam & Tseil-Watuth Nations! I run the Urban Aboriginal Food Enhancement Program with Vancouver Native Health Society, through funding supported by AHIP- Aboriginal Health Initiatives Plan.

Feb 8, 2010

Next public VFPC meeting is April 14
Feb 8, 2010

From VFPC member Helen Spiegleman: Time for Metro Vancouver to forget about incineration, get going on composting
Jan 30, 2010

Food Policy Council meeting on Feb 2 at Vancouver Food Bank
Jan 5, 2010

Next Food Policy Council meeting January 13
Jan 4, 2010

Globe & Mail story on urban farming

The Vancouver Food Policy Council meets once a month at Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Street.
Meetings are open to the public.
Minutes from VFPC meetings and information about future meetings are posted online at
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/commsvcs
/socialplanning/initiatives/foodpolicy/policy
/council.htm

VFPC is on Twitter

We second the congrats to our VFPC cohort! RT @arzeena: @davidtracey Congratulations on your new book Miracle Tree http://ow.ly/LhMI — 12 weeks 4 days ago
@arzeena Customers need to tell stores they don't want them. And maybe we can arrange a meeting between managers and @GetLocalBC — 12 weeks 6 days ago
RT @BowenAg: ist of some Cdn food charters http://bit.ly/8Bm1e5 Documenting intent a good step. Making it a reality may present challenges? — 13 weeks 6 days ago
Gearing up for our Food Secure Vancouver Forum tonight @ Langara College http://bit.ly/63T2qz — 13 weeks 6 days ago
RT @BowenAg: RT @CITinfoResource: RT @greenspacemag The Urban Ag Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Montréal and Van. http://icio.us/5n0cbj — 14 weeks 1 day ago

Main Menu

Indigenous

From The Province: Aboriginal Eastsiders find dignity in growing food

Indigenous Food Security in the City of Vancouver

Blogroll

VFPC is on Twitter