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The Kamloops Community Kitchens and Gardens are a partnership with Interior Community Services and the City of Kamloops.

Nanaimo Community Garden's commissioned this report by Kristen Hughes and Anne Gougeon to explore partnerships between community gardens and municipalities.  The report examines the level of responsibility each party in the community garden arrangements took on, their mandates, and their programs. Released March 2009

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This brochure offers case studies, best management practices, resources and tools for policymakers to develop creative, cost-effective solutions that reduce barriers and facilitate the creation of community garden programs. To read more about these case studies and the resources footnoted in this factsheet, visit:
www.lgc.org/healthycommunities

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Public resource library and training/meeting centre in Victoria, BC. Has print, map, visual and computer resources on food security, community development, mapping, planning, food entrepreneurship, and other topics. A joint project of Lifecycles Project and the Common Ground Community Mapping Project.
 

Check out our initiatives, projects and resources.  Community Garden photos, lasagne composting and more.

Every Lawn A Garden's objective is to help persons increase their capacity for gardening so that everyone can reach the stage of growing some of their own food supply and to work with communities to support and encourage local food systems and increase food security.

Local and community gardening efforts benefit from the sharing of (1) information, (2) labor, and (3) plants/seeds. Every Lawn A Garden provides the infrastructure to support these needs.

This website is a collection of stories about the work of City Farmer in Vancouver, Canada, and about urban farmers from around the world. Contains up-to-the-minute news, and links to excellent documents from other urban ag sources. The site is maintained by City Farmer executive director, Michael Levenston.

Loel Solomon, Director of Community Health Initiatives and Evaluation at Kaiser Permanente, speaks during the conference plenary "Success Stories in Restoring Urban and Rural Communities with Healthy Food". This plenary took place on October 7, 2008 at the 12th Annual Conference of the Community Food Security Coalition in Cherry Hill, NJ.  (9:22 min)

Profile of HEAL, an award-winning, BC-grown, community health project. HEAL stands for Healthy Eating and Active Living, a network of farmers, community activists, retailers, wholesalers, restauranteurs, nutritionists, youth, mental health workers, First Nations, government staff, food processors, organic growers and others in the North who came together to tackle their communities' health and food security needs in innovative ways. By MaryAnne Arcand, published in the newsletter of SPARC, Summer 2005 (3 pages).

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Prepared for SPARC BC and Greg Awai by Naomi Devine, researcher with Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG). 2007. (6 pages)
 

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