Hey #VictoriaBC & area folks!

This month we have a Spring Orchard Tour coming up on Sunday April 19th from 2pm-3pm and a new Workshop called A Year in the Life of a Fruit Tree, which will cover an introduction to year round fruit tree maintenance with a special focus on holistic management of pest and disease issues, on April 26th from 1pm-3pm. You can register for both of these now!

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spring-orchard-tour-tickets-1977307727641

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-fruit-tree-tickets-1983282394029

#WellandCommunityOrchard #nonprofit #CommunityOrchard #OrchardPark #Stewardship #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #ViewRoyal #YYJ #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PhotoDocumentation #FruitTrees #FoodEquity #CultivatingCommunities #LifecyclesProjectSociety #Spring #Workshops #OrchardTour

Spring Orchard Tour

Join us for a fun and educational tour of the beautiful Welland Orchard this spring under a canopy of apple blossoms!

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Why are some farms weathering the fertiliser crisis better than others?

Because they don’t rely on it.

Regenerative & agroecological farming shows how to build resilience free of fossil fuels.

🔗 https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/28/europes-farms-are-reeling-from-the-iran-war-regenerative-farmers-saw-it-coming

#FoodSystems #Agroecology #Fertiliser #FoodSecurity

Why some European farmers are immune to the fertiliser crisis

The Iran war has sent fertiliser prices soaring – but these farmers aren’t fazed.

euronews

I came across a piece this week on the slow erosion of small farming — the consolidation, the industrialization, the quiet disappearance of local growing capacity.

It sent me back to Evan Fraser's Empires of Food. His argument is uncomfortable but hard to dismiss: the civilizations that lost control of their food supply didn't survive it.

That's not ancient history. It's a pattern worth paying attention to right now.

#FoodSovereignty #CEA #VerticalFarming #EmpiresOfFood #FoodSecurity

Africa: World Bank Approves Project to Expand Agricultural Value Chains and Jobs: [World Bank] Washington D.C. -- The World Bank has approved a $500 million International Development Association (IDA) credit for the Nigeria Sustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth (AGROW) Project, aimed at increasing smallholder farmers productivity, strengthening agricultural value chains, and… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRpkRZ #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #SustainableDevelopment #SmallholderFarmers #ValueChains

“The Iran war has highlighted, yet again, the collateral damage of war and the food system’s vulnerability,” writes our @JomoSundaram

Why are we still relying on a #foodsystem that amplifies them?

🔗 https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/03/iran-war-threatens-world-food-crisis/

#Geopolitics #FoodSecurity #fertilizers

Industrial bottom trawling often undermines #foodsecurity and nutrition in coastal communities, a new global study, led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and conducted in partnership with the Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition and Blue Ventures, has found. 🐟

https://sustainabilityonline.net/?p=27294

Industrial bottom trawling ‘undermines’ food security in coastal communities - Sustainability Online

Industrial bottom trawling often undermines food security and nutrition in coastal communities, a new global study has found.

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This means funding gaps in the poorest countries are widening—across health, food security, climate finance, gender equality. Furthermore, Germany includes domestic spending in its calculations, distorting the picture of its international engagement. #Funding #Poverty #Health #FoodSecurity #Climate
Africa: Committed to Halving Food Waste By 2030, South Africa Doesn't Know If It's Winning: [Daily Maverick] South Africa throws away roughly a third of all the food it produces every year, about 10 million tonnes, while millions go hungry. On International Zero Waste Day, the question isn't whether we have enough food. It's why so much of it ends up in a landfill instead of on a plate, why we don't… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRnrTn #FoodWaste #ZeroWaste #Sustainability #FoodSecurity #SouthAfrica