http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca FS Gateway News en-us BC Food Security Gateway Copyright © 2010 BC Food Security Gateway 2012-05-18T21:00:26-05:00 hourly 2 2003-01-01T12:00-05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8446 The From Garden to Classroom Activity and Resource Guide is now available for educators in portable document format (PDF). The activities and resources included in this guide were components of the From Garden to Classroom Outreach Education Program, which was presented to schools in the Northeast Avalon region from 2009 - 2011, thanks to the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) PromoScience funding program. During that time, several Botanical Boot Camp teacher training workshops were offered at the Botanical Garden, and on the west coast of Newfoundland, utilizing these activities and resources. This guide was compiled and developed based on feedback from both the outreach program and the teacher workshop participants.[Botanical Garden, Memorial University of Newfoundland, March 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8445 California — supplies 80 percent of America's strawberries, and the percentage is growing. The reason? California's fields are stunningly productive. They yield ten times more strawberries, per acre, than strawberry farms in Michigan; twenty times more than farms in the state of New York. And there's a complex web of reasons why. It's a miracle of agricultural technology. But that technology is not as universally loved as the fruit. [National Public Radio, May 17, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8444 The nation’s leading organic farming watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, is challenging what it calls a “conspiracy” between corporate agribusiness interests and the USDA that has increasingly facilitated the use of questionable synthetic additives and even dangerous chemicals in organic foods. In its new white paper, The Organic Watergate, Cornucopia details violations of federal law, ignoring congressional intent, that has created a climate of regulatory abuse and corporate exploitation. [Cornucopia, May 18, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8443 Customers in D.C.-area food deserts -- neighborhoods that lack easy access to full-service grocery stores -- will now be able to get fresh vegetables, fruit, milk, eggs and meat from Arcadia Farm and other local and sustainable producers. [Huffington Post, May 18, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8442 Largescale agriculture could be the new economic driver of Northern Ontario. [Nipissing.com, May 18, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8441 A charity that normally deals with international disasters is answering the call of a Toronto Food Bank. Islamic Relief Canada has launched a campaign that will match dollar for a dollar any donations to help the Flemingdon Community Food Bank pay off the $30,000 it owes in rent. [Toronto Star, May 17, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8440 Plenty of restaurants advertise their efforts to offer healthful choices, and it's possible to eat carefully just about anywhere. But researchers say nearly all the entrees they reviewed at 245 U.S. chains fail to meet federal guidelines. [Tampa Bay Times, May 18, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8439 For those of you who use your stove for shoe storage, nota bene: all that wasted time with an inactive kitchen could be shortening your lifespan. In fact, a new study found that people who cook up to five times a week were 47 percent more likely to still be alive after 10 years. [Huffington Post, May 18, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8438 B.C.'s salmon farming industry is on high alert after the discovery of a lethal fish virus at one farm on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has quarantined the farm at Dixon Bay, north of Tofino. Mainstream Canada, which runs the operation, says it will destroy its entire stock of 560,000 one-kilo-sized salmon, to prevent the disease from spreading. [CBC News, May 17, 2012] -05:00 http://www.bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8437 Orchardists in B.C.'s Okanagan region worry that the introduction of genetically modified trees could take a bite out of fruit sales. [Winnipeg Free Press, May 17, 2012] -05:00