Sunday March 9, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Mid-day on a rainy Saturday, folks from across the west shore toured about at the Westshore Seedy Saturday event.
Held at Belmont Secondary School, information booths and displays covered a wide range of topics having to do with food growing in this region.
Some of the groups with displays (indoors/outdoors) or otherwise attending, included:
- BC Seed Security Program
- Bedwetters Irrigation
- Colwood Garden Society
- Compost Education Centre
- Flying Dutchman Market
- Full Circle Seeds
- Garden with Native Plants
- Got Any Plants Landscaping
- Metchosin Community Garden
- Metchosin Farms
- Murder Bay Mushrooms
- RUSH – Resilient Urban Systems & Habitat Initiative (UVic)
- Seeds of Diversity
- Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS)
- Worm composting
- Youth in Food Systems
Municipal elected officials on hand at the event included Mary Wagner (Langford) and David Grove (Colwood).
The event was organized by Reimagine Westshore, with funding from the City of Langford.
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- Langford develops their community garden policy (October 30, 2024)
- BC Greens food security platform highlights water, farming, distribution (October 17, 2024)
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