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Talk Food With Us: 6 Questions to Chew On
The City of Vancouver Food Policy team is hitting the road. It’s a food tour of the city where we will be asking Vancouverites for their food stories, experiences, and feedback to help shape the Food Strategy. For more information on the strategy, see the backgrounder attached.
As some of the people who are on the ground, every day, working towards a more just and sustainable food system, we would like to start the conversation by putting a few questions to you. With your interest and permission, we would like to use the responses on the website and other communication materials as they get created. It is these stories and sound bites that will make the Food Strategy come to life and hopefully get others talking as well.
No need to answer every question if just one or two stick out. We would love to hear whatever you have to say and appreciate your time and thoughtfulness. If you are able to return something in the next week (or at your earliest convenience), that would be much appreciated. Stay tuned for more to come as Food Policy hits the road, coming to a pocket market, neighbourhood house, street festival, garden, or kitchen table near you.
1. When and how did you first come to your passion for the food work that you do?
As some of the people who are on the ground, every day, working towards a more just and sustainable food system, we would like to start the conversation by putting a few questions to you. With your interest and permission, we would like to use the responses on the website and other communication materials as they get created. It is these stories and sound bites that will make the Food Strategy come to life and hopefully get others talking as well.
No need to answer every question if just one or two stick out. We would love to hear whatever you have to say and appreciate your time and thoughtfulness. If you are able to return something in the next week (or at your earliest convenience), that would be much appreciated. Stay tuned for more to come as Food Policy hits the road, coming to a pocket market, neighbourhood house, street festival, garden, or kitchen table near you.
1. When and how did you first come to your passion for the food work that you do?
2. Why does this work (of creating a more just and sustainable, or however you want to slice it, food system) matter?
3. What is one of your favourite food stories, memories, or experiences in Vancouver?
4. Who is one of your Vancouver “food heroes” and why?
5. What is not happening around food in Vancouver that you would like to see happen?
6. What does your food future for Vancouver look like?
Please feel encouraged to circulate this message to others. Responses can be sent to Zsuzsi Fodor, City of Vancouver Food Policy (Social Planning) Intern at zsuzsi.fodor@vancouver.ca.
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Permalink Reply by Randy Chatterjee on
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Regarding what is not happening around food in Vancouver is production, it's hard to know where to start. Considering the diligent and tireless dedication to food production by such people, projects, and organizations as SOLEFood, CityFarmer, CityFarmBoy, CityFarmGirl, Dog Gone Farm, Village Vancouver, Kitsilano Farms, Yummy Yards, Fresh Roots, InnerCityFarms, the Urban Farm Network, every chicken and honey bee keeper, and many more I will be pilloried for forgetting, what they all lack is more land. We have the human dedication to food security, but we need land (and water).
Guess what? We have lots of both. The City has hundreds of hectares of open and unused land, some of which needs remediation for which permaculture can help hugely and almost all of which can be turned into productive farmland.
Urban farmers need not necessarily have more than a few years rolling land tenure, so the city retains future use of the real estate for development if that is the ultimate "highest and best use." There is thus NO LOSS to the city, except lower land management costs (stop the lawn mowing!), more local capital staying local, more jobs, and more civic engagement. The bottom line is that hundreds of hectares are going to waste and are a blight and eyesore in our city. The City is in the driver's seat here. They just need to loosen the reins.
Thus far The Village has made two significant and detailed proposals to the city, the Main Street Commons project for a long-time empty lot of 5,000 square feet and PTwin Harvest, an underused hectare lawn that cost the taxpayer tens of thousands every year to mow and maintain (see the VV link page here or go directly to www.twinharvest.ca). Both were turned down with no full explanation given.
We need to be able to grow at least a quarter of our food calories within the city to make any headway on food security. London once did, and during a full-on war with daily air raids. Many cities around the world, from Havana to Montreal are way ahead of us.
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Permalink Reply by Cylia on
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Randy and everyone else: please send a copy of your response to Zsuzsi Fodor at zsuzsi.fodor@vancouver.ca
Thank you. cylia
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