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Indigenous communities across BC are pioneering efforts to transform local food systems, ensuring a more sustainable and affordable food supply for rural and remote areas. Pam Alexis of Agriculture and Food, highlights the critical need to collaborate with Indigenous partners to enhance traditional food systems, vital for community health and wellness. Launched in July 2023, the Indigenous Food Security and Sovereignty Program supports over 60 dynamic projects, from boosting community food security to adapting to climate change and revitalizing traditional food production. Notable initiatives include: The Farmhouse Butchery: Upgrading equipment and access for better environmental and commercial sustainability. Tea Creek: Growing and distributing Indigenous plants and seeds to support family and community-based gardens. Malahat Nation: Developing infrastructure for Indigenous food harvesting and processing. Dean Maynard of MGD Farms and Jacob Beaton of Tea Creek highlight the transformative impact of this funding on their operations and communities. Applications for the next round of funding open on May 17. https://lnkd.in/edSTvUnG #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #SustainableAgriculture #BCFirstNations #BCAgriculture #Reconciliation

🥬 Fresh healthy food is a basic human right, yet more and more people are struggling to get enough of it each day to live well. 🍇 🌱 Although globally 4 billion metric tons of food per year is produced each year, about 1.3 billion tons goes to waste, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 🌱 This is shameful, given that 1 in 5 people in the world go to bed hungry each night, and many others are not getting the nutritious food that is needed to live a healthy life. 🌱 The price of fresh vegetables rose by 23% in NZ in 2023! We’re over seeing people struggle to afford the food that they need and deserve. 🌱 Our global food system is broken. We can’t sustain current methods of food production. It’s wasteful, inefficient, inequitable, and harmful to the environment. 🌱 We need to take the power of our food supply into our own hands, in our own neighbourhoods. 🌱 If we can all grow a little food at home. Be it in some buckets, nurturing some old fruit trees, a vege garden or some pots of herbs on a sunny windowsill. It makes a difference, it takes some power back. 🌱 By swapping and sharing what we grow and produce at home, we AMPLIFY that power. We improve the outcomes for our community. We increase our food security and food sovereignty. 🌱 Magic Beans exists for this! Our FREE to use app connects people who live near each other to swap and share homegrown food and gardening supplies. It’s not just an app, it is a community. 🌱 You’ll be able to learn gardening skills from us and also members all over the country. We launched across New Zealand in July 2023 and are steadily growing. We need YOU to help us grow this movement and empower communities through food. (Watch this space Australia, we’re coming to you soon!) 🌱 Join us today and become a part of the magic. www.magicbeansapp.com 😍 Please share this post and help us grow! #circulareconomy #foodwaste #sustainablefood #foodsecurity #foodequity #community #femalefounders #Aotearoa #groceryprices

The campaign by the QFVG (Queensland Fruit and Veg Growers) Industry Association to raise awareness of produce growers' challenges is admirable. But for the campaign to make a real difference, it will be important for the "Association" not to assume Australian consumers do appreciate the importance of our produce growers. AUSVEG survey reporting 30% of our producers are considering leaving their farms is confronting. It is critical for the "Association" to explain why it's important that we support the many growers of our quality fruits and vegetables. (include economic, social and food security reasons) As Simon Senek says-" it's the why that counts" #produceindustry #challenges #financialandsocialvalue #foodsecurity #decliningproducernumbers

Six approaches to Bridge the Gap: Transitioning ‘from food aid to food trade’ to provide healthy, affordable, planet-friendly food for all. With input from a range of people active in food and farming, Bridging the Gap have alighted on six areas of focus to explore. Great to see co-ops, including Tamar Valley Food Hubs and Organic North, at the heart of this. The co-operative movement was born out of a time when living conditions were extremely tough for most people, and basics like butter, oats and sugar were expensive, milk was watered down, and flour mixed with sawdust to increase the profits of wealthy mill owners. The Rochdale Pioneers spurred on a movement that has spread throughout the world, by providing good quality products to their community – at a fair price. Those principles are as important today as then, and we can still learn from the past, while examining what works now, and what might work in a future marred by climate change and capitalist greed. Funded by the The National Lottery Community Fund, Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, Alexandra Rose Charity and Growing Communities, working with Synnwyr Bwyd Cymru / Food Sense Wales, and Nourish Northern Ireland, are bringing together organisations united in the belief that everyone has the right to healthy and affordable food that works for the planet. The Bridging the Gap programme demonstrates ways to build better supply chains between climate and nature friendly food and people on a lower income. https://lnkd.in/emRSFQSV #coops #cooperatives #food #farming #foodhubs #retailcoops #foodaid #trade #climatechange #rochdalepioneers #publicsector #horticulture #livingwage

If you have an hour to spare , please watch. Cheaper imports from abroad have dessimated our farming culture in Scotland, with family farms closing after 100 years. It’s part of our cultural and natural heritage and has brought significant social and economic investment into our local area. We produce some of best soft fruit in the world here in Scotland. However, many fruit farmers have closed their farms letting locals pick their blueberries in exchange for a donation to charity. Scottish raspberries, our signature fruit of Scotland, are on the decline too, with consumer demand dictating varietals which just can’t grow here and harder to pick as it’s not their endemic environment. Peru is now the top exporter of blueberries with Mexico raspberries. This fruit travels 10,000 miles in environmentally controlled shipping containers that take a minimum of three weeks to get here. Think of the carbon footprint, but buyers are choosing this fruit because it’s cheaper to buy and ship over. Our Scottish farmers just can’t compete with South America with most now mulling down their bushes into compost making way for property development. We don’t grow avocados here but this film shows how the demand for avocados in Europe has destroyed the environment and the impact on local communities where water has been diverted for the sake of export economy. Blueberries have only just started, but this shows what may happen next. When you create your menus or products or choose products to put on your shelves, please champion our little friends, farmers and great nation by incorporating the exceptional food produced by them. We shouldn’t be importing from abroad and destroying our heritage whilst contributing to the destruction of another’s, if we’ve been growing this food for over a century on our doorstep. And by heck we’ve got enough water! Thanks for taking the time out to read this. #ChooseLocal #ChampionOurFarmers #Provenance

Matoa: The exotic fruit from Papua Matoa is a common name used to refer to the fruit of the Pometia pinnata tree. Pometia pinnata, also known as Makita, is a tropical tree native to Papua and several Pacific Islands. The term "Matoa" specifically denotes the fruit produced by this tree. The Matoa fruit is a drupe, meaning it has a fleshy outer layer surrounding a hard seed or pit. It is typically round or oval in shape and varies in size. The flesh of the Matoa fruit is edible and is often described as having a sweet and slightly acidic flavor. It is commonly consumed fresh, but it can also be used to make jams, jellies, and other culinary products. Matoa holds cultural and culinary significance and is used in traditional dishes and snacks. The fruit is valued for its taste and nutritional content, contributing to the local diet and sometimes even being sold in local markets as a source of income for fruit growers. Matoa plays a multifaceted role in the lives of local communities where it is found. It contributes to livelihoods, nutrition, and cultural practices while also raising environmental challenges that need to be addressed for the long-term sustainability of both the tree and the communities that rely on it. Conservation efforts and sustainable management practices can help balance the positive and negative impacts of this valuable tree species. Matoa is available at Pasarnow & Petik. You can order through the Pasarnow app, Grab Mart Kilat, and your favorite supermarket. #Fruits #ExoticFruit

IntroductionWelcome to the ultimate guide on how to grow edible beetroot at home in the UK. Whether you have a spacious garden or a small balcony, growing beetroot is a rewarding and enjoyable experience. In this step-by-step guide, we will cover everything you need to know to successfully grow beetroot and harvest your own delicious, homegrown produce.Why Should I Grow Beetroot?Beetroot

Nice to catch up with a number of the SCOCAN (Scottish Organic CANola) group last week as part of the #IntercropVALUES (https://lnkd.in/eS2i9ZvH) project where we are looking at potential to use intercropping practices to help grow oilseed rape (OSR) organically as part of the value-chain linked to production of a high value product. In the image, the farmer is comparing sole cropped OSR with strips that have been established in a mix with a small amount of spring cereal to try and confuse pest species, with the idea that the cold snaps of weather over winter, typical for this region of Scotland, will kill off most of the cereal prior to the spring allowing the OSR to grow away. Harvested oilseed will be cold pressed and included in the Or-ganic https://lnkd.in/euBMrZSa product which recently won the prestigious Artisan Product category at the Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards 2023.

About Foodwaste (3) Consciousness is growing. May be in the whole of Europe but to my knowledge at least in Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland, various systems are being experimented to enable the population to access existing fruit harvest that would otherwise perish on the ground. It includes : Farmers opening their fields for clients to come and harvest according to their needs. It is possible for bushes like berries. The producer spares on manpower and clients benefit from better prices on the top of the experience. It is inefficient for fruit trees mainly because of the responsibilities in case of accidents on all sides. Tagging trees offered to the public with a colored piece of material. Its efficiency is limited as it requires informing the population of their rights as much as harvest times and to ensure the material remain in place and visible. Many also do not have the required equipment to harvest. Census on a map of all trees available for collect indicating, sort, harvest season and precise location. It addresses the public in general. Its limit is to require quite an intensive initial effort to gather information and to make it available on Internet. To my knowledge only public hands can offer such a service. And there is no follow-up to find out if the trees have been effectively harvested. Organize harvests and their distribution. Associations gathering volunteers match with owners of fruit trees, including on public domains, to organise harvests at the right time. Fruits collected are then distributed equally between the owners, the volunteers and needing communities. Owners may see interest while they do not have time or capacities to harvest or have too much for their own needs. Volunteers are remunerated with healthy fruits in addition of the feeling of doing something positive. Needy communities are provided with healthy resources they probably could not afford. And they all learn how to deal with imperfect fruits. Such association do provide for the harvest material when not available on sites and organise the distribution. I have retained this last model in creating the association SauveQuiFruit (FB « Bienvenue chez SauveQuiFruit ») in 2022 as it is efficient, ecologically and socially beneficial. Similar local associations exists in French speaking regions that are active at the level of an agglomeration or a region. Over its first year in operation, it enabled the collect and distribution of approx 600 kg of fruits with the support of 40 volunteers. For abandoned trees it organised also for the necessary care (trimming). I can only encourage you to develop such a system in your localities or regions. And I will be thankful if and when you share your experiences with me. For more information, please contact by mail: sauvequifruit@gmail.com.

📰 Latest News: The District of Squamish and The Squamish Food Policy Council (SFPC) of Squamish Climate Action Network (CAN) are collaborating on the development of a new Squamish to Lillooet Food and Farm Hub Feasibility Plan. The initiative, supported by the Squamish to Lillooet Regional District aims to bolster local food businesses, strengthen the agri-food industry, and foster food self-reliance in the Sea to Sky Corridor. Farmers and food processors are invited to complete an online survey through August 15. “Growing local food is essential to ensuring a healthy and resilient food system and creating a local food hub, if feasible, could help to strengthen our region’s food security and have positive local economic impacts,” says District of Squamish Mayor Armand Hurford. “Food producers and processors are an integral part of our regional food landscape and so we are hoping to engage with the groups to hear ideas and identify needs and barriers to establishing a thriving and sustainable agri-food industry.” Thanks to funding from the Rural Economic Diversification and Infrastructure Program (REDIP), Squamish CAN and the District of Squamish will lead this project, moving the Squamish Valley Agriculture Plan (SVAP) forward. Follow the link below to read the full story. #squamish #economicdevelopment #squamisheconomy #foodpolicy #Squamish2040 #squamishbusiness #foodindustry #foodindustrynews https://lnkd.in/gH3YsWTx