Buy fresh and support our local economy

"We humans are the only creature that does not live within walking, swimming, wriggling, or flying distance from its food." - Julian Darley

South Cariboo Farmers' Market

Locally-grown and -raised food.

May to October, every Friday, 8:30am - 1:30pm
Red Coach Inn parking lot, Highway 97.
More information

South Cariboo Farmers Market, 100 Mile House

Annette's Garden

A wide variety of vegetables, grapes and berry fruits.

Phone: 396-4537
E-mail annful@telus.net

CEEDS

Summer delivery of organic vegetables.

Phone: 1 250 395-4225 or 1 250 395-3580
Fax: 1 250 395-3572
e-mail: ceeds@bcinternet.net
Web Site: www.jnweb.com/ceeds

Kariboo Farms

Garlic and garlic products

Telephone: (250) 397-2540
Fax: (250) 397-2517
E-Mail: hospitality@kariboofarms.com
Web Site: www.kariboofarms.com

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Photo courtesy CEEDS

Local Food News:

• Healthier, tastier food isn't enough - CBC (text and audio)
• Local food 'greener than organic' - BBC News
• Contributing to our local food supply - Comon Ground
• Community gardens in New York City - Sierra Club video
• Seed saving under threat
• Michael Enright (CBC) - on farmers (Feb 13/05 - Real Audio)

Conserving Farmland - 29 minutes


For a local version of this approach, see Horse Lake Community Farm Co-operative

How can individuals assist the transition? Support the small, local alternative, even if it entails inconvenience. And often it will. The big, mainstream standbys (big banks, chain stores etc.) are often subsidized in hidden ways to make them more convenient, and to make them seem to the individual consumer to be more economical. According to dominant theory, bigness implies an "economy of scale" through mass production and bulk purchasing. But the real costs of added transportation resulting from centralized production and control (including extra pollution and its cascading environmental effects) are rarely factored into the accounting. Also we must learn always to question the ideology of efficiency, since many human needs and interests are only degraded by its ruthless, myopic calculus (should one, after all, strive to be an "efficient" parent, giving a minimum of love for a maximum of obedience?). - Richard Heinberg

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