Celebrating community food action with Hastings-Sunrise Community Food Network
This is the ninth in a series of blog posts featuring each of our Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks. Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network (HSCFN) started nine years ago with greenhouse tomatoes from Gipanda farms. Farm Folk City Folk received some grants for a food security initiative, and approached organizations in Hastings-Sunrise to collaborate. Before long, […]
Adapting to change: Community food action with Little Mountain-Riley Park Neighbourhood Food Network
This is the second in a series of blog posts featuring each of our Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network coordinators. Joanne MacKinnon has represented Little Mountain Neighbourhood House as their Neighbourhood Food Network and—most recently—as the Community Engagement Coordinator for five years. The food security priorities for the Network are the Riley Park Community Garden, a […]
Adapting to change: Community food action with Westside Food Collaborative
This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring each of our Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network coordinators. Hillary Ko (she, her, hers) is Chinese-Canadian and a true Vancouverite. She represents the Westside Food Collaborative, which serves a very large area in Vancouver. Often, the West side is seen as an affluent area but […]
