Relief is on the way for Vancouver Island farmers caught out by the closure of restaurants and other organizations that usually buy their product. A rapid relief fund administered by the Victoria Foundation will help the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRfair) establish what’s currently known as the South Island FoodHub at 808 …
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City Beet harvests profits from urban gardens
VANCOUVER—It’s a sunny afternoon in the Lower Mainland as Maddy Clerk and Elana Evans of City Beet Farm harvest tomatoes for the weekly produce boxes they’re assembling for delivery the following day. The two run a successful community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, and there’s enough produce for them to also participate in a biweekly market and …
Food-X connects shoppers, farmers
A maxing out of farmers markets and the rise of online grocery shopping has fuelled widespread reports in the US of declining traffic to farmers markets and even market closures. The threat is not unknown to the BC Association of Farmers Markets, which is striving to meet changing shopping patterns and explore online shopping options. …