Good to Grow: Raising Food in BC’s Cities – The Tyee

By David Tracey

This six-part series explains why the time is ripe for an urban farming revolution in B.C., and who’s showing how to bring it about. Supported by a Tyee reader-funded Fellowship for Solutions-oriented Reporting, David Tracey surveys the urban farming landscape of B.C., visits Cuba to learn from that nation’s city gardening success story, and explains the utility and benefits of bringing agriculture within our urban boundaries.

Good to Grow: A Series Funded by Tyee Readers
David Tracey says the time is ripe for an urban farming revolution in BC.

1. Why Urban Farming Is the Future
And why it’s good to get a little dirty while helping BC feed itself. First in a series.

2. Replanting the City Farming Movement in BC
Victoria led the way in 1918. Vancouver once had 52,000 Victory Gardens. Today, the idea is sprouting fast again. Second in a reader-funded series.

3. Lots of Food, but for How Long?
BC’s home-grown food supply is shrinking. Who’s doing it better?

4. Peak Oil? Urban Farms? Cuba’s Been There, Done It
What a BC gardener learned by visiting Havana.

5. Small Farmers: Vital Work, Slim Wages
Changes are needed to insure a new wave of urban farmers thrives. Fifth in a reader-funded series.

6. Ten Ways to Make BC a Model for Urban Farming

Visit the Tyee Good to Grow website here and find all the story links.

Visit David Tracey’s website here.