New funding for the BC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program will help improve access to healthy, locally grown food for lower-income British Columbians and people who are pregnant, while increasing the number of Elders and seniors participating in the program.

From Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Aug. 4, 2021: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/index-eng.html

Patients and residents in hospitals and care facilities across the Lower Mainland are being served meals with an increasing bounty of local food as a result of the Province’s Feed BC in Healthcare partnership with local health authorities.

From: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (https://www.canada.ca/en/fisheries-oceans.html)

Protecting and restoring our wild fish habitat and stocks is a priority for both the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia. We know that healthy wild stocks are vital to healthy ecosystems, the economy, the social fabric of B.C.’s coastal communities, and Indigenous cultures and livelihoods.

Hundreds of farmers and chefs came together for a one-day event to make connections to buy and sell B.C. foods.