For the second half of our February meeting, we’re excited that Eleanor Boyle, the recent author of High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, will be with us to present and co-facilitate a discussion on what is internationally being called ‘sustainable diets’.
See the full meeting agenda here (PDF) >>
Wednesday, February 20th
6:00-8:30pm
Vancouver City Hall
453 West 12th Ave. Map
Note: Enter via 12th Avenue entrance after hours.
Here’s a video teaser:
Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Food Networks on the CBC Wednesday, January 30
Vancouver’s growing movement of Neighbourhood Food Networks—a key feature of the Vancouver Food Strategy—will be on the CBC’s On The Coast Wednesday sometime between 3-6 PM. To learn more about and contact the network closest to you, download the brochure with a directory and map of Neighbourhood Food Networks.
We along with the City of Vancouver’s food policy staff are excited that the Vancouver Food Strategy and also Farmers Market Policy is going to City Council for their consideration next week. The Food Strategy has been a long time in the making and we are proud to have been a part of its development.
The Strategy will be presented to regular Council meeting on Tuesday 29th, and then Council will hear from speakers on Wednesday 30th at the Standing Committee. The agenda details and Food Strategy document can be found here. The meeting will kick off at 9:30am in Council Chamber, Third Floor, City Hall on Tuesday Jan 29th – though timing may be subject to changes as it goes for all meetings.
Please come out and show City Council that you support this important next stage in the development of food policy in Vancouver!
Your input on the food strategy is welcome! If you cannot attend the meeting, you can communicate your thoughts to the Mayor and Councillors by sending an email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca and they will receive all correspondence.
On January 23rd, our meeting topic is “The Business of Food-Challenges to Scaling up Our Local Food System”, a topic that we hope will help our members and guests better understand how our food current system practically works, as well as give us an opportunity to examine how we as an advisory body, can support more local food production and consumption.
There will be a panel of three speakers, each given 5 minutes to explain to the room challenges they perceive to increasing the volume or improving the business case for more local food in the BC market. After the panel, we will also do some break out work to explore the challenges we’ve heard about.
The meeting starts at 6 pm at Vancouver City Hall in the Town Hall Meeting Room. The panel will start after our break at 7pm. After 5 pm, enter City Hall from the main entrance on 12th Avenue.
Vancouver City Hall
453 West 12th Ave.
Vancouver, BC
Map
We are excited to be continuing to explore some of the discussion from our October meeting about what makes a just food system, as our theme for this month’s meeting with be “Keeping the Just in “Just and Sustainable”: Exploring How Food Assets Can Support a Just Food System”.
Diane Collis from Fresh Choice Community Kitchens, Stephanie Lim from Renfrew Collingwood Food Security Institute and Scott Rowe from New Hope Cuisine will start us off with short presentations, followed by some large and small group discussions.
The Vancouver Food Policy Council and members of the newly minted Park Board Local Food Assets Task Force teamed up for an evening of discussion, performance and interactive displays. Food themed performances by burlesque performer Joanie Gyoza and musical guests the Wheely Slow Cooking Tour. VFPC co-chair Trish Kelly hosted a discussion and ideas and suggestions were captured by a graphic recording for the Vancouver Parks Board. Demonstration Food Friendly Neighbourhood curated by Village Vancouver Transition Town Initiative with displays, information and chickens, along with displays by the Neighbourhood Food Networks, the Vancouver Urban Farming Society, the UBC Farm Aboriginal Initiatives and more. Check out http://
Thanks to everyone who came and all of the volunteers who helped to make it happen!
