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This Toolkit shares innovative and effective actions that are being taken in British Columbia, Canada, and elsewhere to promote sustainable food production. It offers tools and advocacy ideas to help regional board members, area directors, municipal councillors, and local government staff and planners create a favorable environment for local and sustainable food production.

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This one page fact sheet was created as one in a series by the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CR-FAIR), based in Victoria, British Columbia.  The subtitle of the document is: "Growing dependencies and shrinking resources call for changes to our food system."

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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.
 

A project of the Beginning Farmers Resource Centre, Cornell University Cooperative Extension. Site features twelve short videos profiling farmers sharing advice learned from experience. Titles include:
Meet the Farmers | Lessons from Experience | Getting $tarted | Grants | Setting Goals  Marketing | Evaluating Land and Facilities | Choosing an Enterprise |
Taking Care of the Land | Profitability | Regulations, Taxes, and Insurance
Love of Farming

Unpublished paper by Annie Myers, for a course in City Planning (”Land Use Controls”), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2008. Written to provide planners with models of six existing urban farms and to aid in the development of urban plans that prioritize urban food production. 2008 (37 pages). Myers also maintains a very interesting blog called "Thoughts on the Table: A Blog on Soil, Food and Merry Collaboration" (http://thoughtsonthetable.wordpress.com)

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)

On-line guide to using spreadsheets, PDAs, and manual record-keeping to assist farmers with crop planning, invoicing, livestock management, harvest, sales, and traceability.

Includes chapters on the design process, planning and public consultation; trail routing, construction, management and maintenance; the place of trails in the ALR; design examples; risk management and liability; and the trail users code of conduct. BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, 2005 (61 pages)
 

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Trifold brochure created by the BC Food Processors Association, Jan 2009. Summarizes new BC Meat Inspection Regulatory requirements and resources available from the MIES. Includes key government contacts for questions on standards, waste handling and disposal, and enforcement.
 

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