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

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

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

“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

Oceans absorb the Earth's excess energy, imperiling food systems | Grist https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/oceans-are-absorbing-the-earths-excess-energy-thats-bad-news-for-food-systems/

#ClimateChange #Sustainability #FoodSecurity #Ocean #Science