We did come and enjoy the music, food, people and the festival this weekend. It was awesome! The music was great, food was incredible and we left with a fistful of information and a gratifying feeling about being part of something good.
Tessa Larsen helps five-year-old Ty Underwood dig soil in the Jr. Masters Garden Program as part of the 5th annual Organic Islands Festival at Glendale Gardens Saturday. Photograph by: Darren Stone, Times Colonist
Reporter Matthew Pearson provides a great summary of the panel discussion with local farmers and food activists offering their solutions to reviving the Vancouver Island Diet. Here is an excerpt.
Metchosin farmer Tom Henry has this advice for Islanders: grow five per cent more food than you did last year and buy five per cent more locally grown food.
Henry’s was just one of many solutions presented Saturday at a panel discussion on the “Vancouver Island Diet,” part of the fifth annual Organic Islands Festival at Glendale Gardens, southwest of Beaver Lake.
The hour-long talk centred on a sobering statistic — more than 90 per cent of the Island’s food supply comes from off-Island. By contrast, in the 1960s, 85 per cent of the food consumed here was actually grown on the Island… read more here – click on blue text to read entire article.
Thai massage practitioner Gillie Easdon works on Wendy Simson in the Japanese Garden Wellness Oasis as part of the 5th annual Organic Islands Festival at Glendale Gardens Saturday. Photograph by: Darren Stone, Times Colonist
