RESOURCES
Here, you will find a collection of resources related to youth and food. The words that are green, bolded, and underlined, are links that you can click on to access these resources, and they will look like this: A Link to This Resource Page! Do you have a resource that you want to share? Contact us to have it featured here!
MIRANDA’S VLOGS
Join Miranda, our practicum student along as she visits many of the programs in our communities that support our local food system! Apart of her practicum with us, Miranda is going into the community to learn more about what resources and programs are available locally. Stay tuned for more!
PODCASTS AND AUDIO BLOGS
The Racist Sandwich - The Racist Sandwich podcast serves up a perspective that you don’t hear often: both food and the ways we consume, create, and interpret it can be political.
Lush Valley Pandemic Podcast - Analyzes community Food Security during the pandemic | Jean Sarrazin, Rob Crowston and Alivia Veenstra
All my Relations (Indigenous Podcast) - Matika Wilbur & Adrienne Keene
Well for Culture (Indigenous Podcast) - Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
A Collection of Writing on Social Healing (Audio Blogs) - Various Writers/Speakers
Intersectionality Matters (Podcast) - African American Policy Forum
ARTICLES, REPORTS, AND BLOGS
Civil Eats (Website) - Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. They publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.
West Coast Seeds (Blog) - A series of blog posts to support beginner gardeners with knowledge based off of our climate.
Allyship, Self-care, and Intersectionality
A Guide to Allyship (Blogpost)- Amélie Lamont
The Unspoken Complexity of “Self-Care” (Comic/Blogpost) - Deanna Zandt (Understanding Different Kinds of Care (self-soothing, self care, community care, and structural care)
Anti-Racist Food Justice
Five Big Ideas for a Better Food System (Proposal) - Food Secure Canada
Food Insecurity/Injustice in Canada (Article) - Canadian Feed the Children
Food Justice & Racism In Our Food Systems (Blogpost) - Roots of Change
For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems (E-Book) - Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J.A. Mougeot, and Jennifer Welsh
Race and Food are Intertwined (Article) - Hannah Wallace
Ways to Dismantle a Racist Food System (Article)- Leah Penniman
What White People Can Do For Racial Justice (Blogpost) - Corinne Shutack
Food Waste and Food Solutions
A $31B problem: How Canada sucks at reducing food waste (Article) - Melissa Mancini & Nelisha Vellani
Corporate Food Waste Isn't The Way To Solve Hunger In Canada (Article) Naomi Dachner & Valerie Tarasuk
Don’t Reward Corporations for Donating Food Waste, Critic Says (Article) - Andrew MacLeod
Food Waste: Valuing a New Commodity (Blogpost) - Eric Holt-Giménez
For the Wild Podcast: Michael Martinez on Transforming Waste Relations (Blogpost + Podcast) - Michael Martinez
How Food Banks Prop up a Broken System (Article) - Graham Riches
Lori Nikkel: There is no excuse not to eliminate food waste (Article) - Lori Nikkel
Reporting on Second Harvest’s 2019 Report on the Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste (Article) - Andrea Janus
The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste (Report) - Second Harvest
Vast majority of Canadian food waste takes place within the food industry - and not at the household level, study finds (Article) - Ann Hui
Best-Before Dates
Best before dates and expiry dates: 5 things you may not know (Article) - Aleksandra Sagan
Best before dates lead to waste by consumers (Article) - Negar Mojtahedi
Food Banks Canada: Guideline for Distributing Food-Past the Best Before Date (PDF) - Food Banks Canada
Date labelling on pre-packaged foods (Webpage) - Government of Canada
The Difference Between Best Before and Expiry Dates (Blogpost) - Canadian Institute of Food Safety
Community Fridges
'Community' fridges let people give food away to fight waste (Article) - Thomas Reuters
How Canadians Started Community Fridges In Their Cities (Article) - Al Donato
The Radical Message Behind Community Fridges (Article) - Ella Walsh
Indigenous Food Systems, Food Sustainability, and Food Resources
Food Is Medicine (Cookbook) - W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Secondary School & Island Health Aboriginal Health Dietitian
Indigenous Food Safety and Security (Report) - Leela Steiner, National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health
Indigenous Foods Gathering Report - Tsawout First Nation
Nuxalk Wild Berries Database - Nuxalk
Practicing Sustainable Self-Determination (Academic/Journal Article)
W̱SÁNEĆ Emerging Land or Emerging People (Academic/Journal Article) - Jack Horne
VIDEOS
Food Share Event: Ending White Supremacy in our Food Systems, Leading While Black, and Black Women on Food Sovereignty (Video) - FoodShare
Five Tips on Being an Ally (Video) - ChescaLeigh
Growing Chefs Weekly Videos
The Urgency of Intersectionality (Video) - Kimberlé Crenshaw
UVIC Campus Community Garden Videos
COMMUNITY SUPPORTS
Growing Together - Hub of resources and videos for novice gardeners.
Community Food Support - Provides food distribution for Students.
Food Eco District/My Fed Farms - Supporting families and laid off workers to grow their own food.
Young Agrarians U-Map - Online platform for garden space sharing.
Community Food Support Victoria
Red Cedar Cafe
UVic Community Cabbage
OTHER
Compost Education Centre
Master Gardeners Online Course (Free E-Book | Paid Course)
Inactive Sources (sources that do not have published content or have chosen to remove their content, but for the sake of knowing these resources do exist, are listed here)
W̱ILṈEW̱ Radio podcast that highlights W̱SÁNEĆ voices
Xpey’ Wellness Video Series | Videos on medicine for lung health, salmon canning, conversations with dietitians, etc.
Berry Toolkit
The Saltwater People PDF book
On Land/Online- Virtual Plant Walks | Online/On Land Weekly land-based Livestreams within Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ territories
Linda Gilkeson’s Gardening
Edible Time Machine Gardening Course
CRFAIR Food Literacy Working Group Webinars
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Three myths about Best Before dates - Busted!
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