Webinar — BC Farming’s Future!
BC farming’s future is the subject of an upcoming BC Rural Centre webinar, Tuesday, February 27, at 11AM Pacific, featuring Heather Pritchard of the Foodlands Cooperative of BC. Join us to listen, learn, and pose questions to this outstanding presenter.
Participation is simple. All you need is a decent computer or smartphone.
Be sure to sign up early, as space is limited for this free webinar!
Heather Pritchard
Heather Pritchard– lives at Fraser Common Farm Cooperative (a Community Service Coop) in the township of Langley where she is a working member of Glorious Organics Coop (a worker cooperative).
She has been with FarmFolk CityFolk Society since it began in 1993. In late 2017 Heather began to work full time with the Foodlands Cooperative of BC, a newly incorporated land trust.
Her work with FarmFolk CityFolk included co-coordinating the BC region of the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Food Security, partnering with Young Agrarians and supporting existing and developing Community Farms.
In 2015 Heather was given the Brad Reid Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to the organic sector in British Columbia.
A founding member of FarmFolk CityFolk, the Vancouver Food Policy Council, and the BC Food Systems Network, she participated in the BC Real Estate Foundation Advisory Committee, the MAAC (Ministry of Agriculture Advisory Committee), and is the current Chair of Slow Food in Canada.
Background on Foodlands Cooperative
FarmFolk CityFolk’s Foodlands Trust Project has been approved by the BC government, officially known as the Foodlands Cooperative of BC. Its founding members — FarmFolk CityFolk Society, Vancity Community Foundation, Fraser Common Farm Cooperative, and the BC Farmer’s Market Association — will be joined by other advisory members to form the first board of directors of the new land trust cooperative.
The Foodlands Cooperative of BC is a member-powered provincial cooperative that secures and holds land in trust while facilitating capacity building of community groups to make land accessible and manage it for food provisioning. The Foodlands Cooperative upholds and demonstrates the public and community interest for sustainable land use and the protection and utilization of food-providing lands across BC.
For more on the Foodlands Cooperative, check out this recent BC Rural Centre blogpost.