Buy fresh and support our local economy

Many people view the local dimension condescendingly. They say your products are too small, too marginal. In actual fact, joined as one, all you small-scale producers arguably form the biggest food multinational of all. You don't produce standardization or leveling out, you don't produce pollution or poverty. You produce wealth, diversity, exchange, conservation of memory and progress. This is the value of the local economy. - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food

2012 South Cariboo Farm Fresh Guide [PDF]

I Like my Food Local (Click to listen)

 

Food Security - Simple and Safe Promo video - movie premiere Victoria Film Festival, Feb.5, 2011

Contents of an early-season delivery box from CEEDS

Why Buy Local? Produce is fresher Fruit which doesn't have to travel can be picked riper Fuel/transport costs will inevitably increase as our fossil fuels become scarcer Supporting local food supplies now will enable them to be there in the more challenging days to come. Reduce pollution by reducing transport distances Keep your money local, thereby supporting and building our community.

Annette's Garden

A wide variety of vegetables, grapes and berry fruits.

Phone: 250 396-4537
E-mail annful@telus.net

CEEDS

Summer delivery of organic vegetables.

Phone: 250 395-4225 or 250 395-3580
Fax: 250 395-3572
e-mail: rlceeds@xplornet.ca
Web Site: horselakefarmcoop.ca/ceeds

Circle H Ranch

Beef, lamb and goat

More information

Kariboo Farms

Garlic and garlic products

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

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

 

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Photo courtesy CEEDS

Local Food News and Information:

• South Cariboo Agri-Culture Enterprise Centre - ethical food production and distribution, food security, sustainability, and a strong local economy.
• South Cariboo Farm Fresh Guide [PDF 400k]
• BC Food Systems Network - Goal: food security for all residents of British Columbia
• Community Supported Agriculture - Green Food At Your Doorstep
• Eat Well Guide for USA & Canada - Find farms, markets, restaurants and more.
• Bits & Bytes - Canadian community food security resources.
• Local food 'greener than organic' - BBC News
• Contributing to our local food supply - Common Ground
• Community gardens in New York City - Sierra Club video
• Seed saving under threat

Farm Folk / City Folk Heroes
A six-minute homage to 27 farm and city sustainable growers.
Photography: Brian Harris, music: Liona Boyd

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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