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As one of the 5 implementation partners in the "Building Food Security with Bits & Bytes" project, ending March 31, 2009, the KFSS participated in a StoryTelling Workshop and created this video. Enjoy!

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Advice on how to deal with rats in a compost pile. At the Vancouver Compost Garden we talk to people all year long about making their bins rodent-resistant. (www.cityfarmer.org)

Cathy and Marg have worked at the Maple Street Community Garden next to our Demo Garden for 17 years. They now co-ordinate the 75 plot garden, organizing work parties, chatting with passers-by and welcoming gifts of plants, bricks, etc. The Maple Street gardens sit on a narrow City-owned boulevard between the street and the CPR railway tracks. City Farmer

Tom and Dave gave me an inspiring tour of their two gardens off the alley in downtown Vancouver (Chinatown - Strathcona). Found between Hastings and Pender Streets in the block between Dunlevy and Jackson Avenues, healthy vegetables growing in trucked-in City compost look up at the high concrete walls of local businesses. City Farmer.

Community Gardens (6 mins) (Oct 2005)

At the Heritage Community Garden, people of all ages and backgrounds have fun together, save money and learn to grow food in an urban environment.

About Chapter 1: Eating Local

Transporting and storing imported foods is a major contributor to the world's greenhouse gas emissions.Eating locally produced food is better for our environment,health and future food security. How are Albertans learning to get in touch with the land, even in the city?

About Made-in-Alberta (MIA) Series

City Farm (6 mins) (Oct 2005)

At Edmonton's City Farm they teach city kids about agriculture in the hopes of improving urban-rural relationships in the future.

About Chapter 1: Eating Local

Transporting and storing imported foods is a major contributor to the world's greenhouse gas emissions.Eating locally produced food is better for our environment,health and future food security. How are Albertans learning to get in touch with the land, even in the city?

About Made-in-Alberta (MIA) Series

VVH-TV News Special
Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 1

Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island.

What is organic farming?

VVH-TV News Special
Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 2

Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island.

What is organic farming?

Dan Jason is active in food politics, being an outspoken opponent of genetically modified seeds, patents on living organisms, and industrial agriculture in general. He frequently gives lectures at environmental and horticultural events in British Columbia.