City Projects

Urban Chickens

We're helping push the city of Vancouver to amend the animal control bylaw that prohibits keeping chickens in the city. For details on the bylaw amendment and information on raising chickens, including workshop times and places (coming soon!) visit the Chickens In Vancouver website.

Trout Lake Cedar Cottage Food Security Network

The TLCC Food Security Network is an active collaboration of community members, agencies, service providers and organizations working together to enhance the health and well-being in our neighborhoods by supporting and coordinating local food security initiatives and improving access to community health, social services and community-based programs.

Eat Your History

Eat Your History is a series of article,guest edited by J.B. MacKinnon, co-creator of the 100-Mile Diet, and written by Jeff Nield and Joanne Will. What's it about? Food. Place. History. A stimulated mind and happy taste buds. From the Olympia Oyster to Salt Spring Island's Ruckle Bean this written feast inspires a renaissance of BC's unique local foods.

Backyard Bounty

A partnered project of FarmFolk/CityFolk and EYA (Environmental Youth Alliance.) The Backyard Bounty Collective (BBC) is a collection of four new small businesses based in Vancouver that focus on backyard food systems that you may not (yet) see on your daily stroll down the lane. A recipient of Vancity's enviroFund award, Backyard Bounty will help four 'Farmpreneurs' partner with Vancouver residents to design, build, and maintain small farming operations on their residential property. Four separate agriculture applications - apiculture (honeybee keeping), aquaponics (fish and vegetable closed tank system), chicken/egg farming, and mushroom farming - will be offered to urban dwellers under the guidance and support of the Environmental Youth Alliance. A strong public education component accompanies the project, cultivating the broader goal of food security and raising more of our own food closer to home.