Stories about community farming, food security, and bringing year-round growing back to Canadian families.
Canada imports 70 percent of its vegetables and 90 percent of its fruit, and this week's headlines are a reminder of what that dependence costs. But there is one kind of food no trade dispute can touch: the kind you grow yourself. We have been here before, and we know what works.
Read the story →In 1944, the largest vegetable-growing operation in Canada was not a farm. It was 209,200 families, growing 57,000 tonnes of vegetables in backyards and shared plots. The government doubted them at first. They fed a nation. Here is why that story is the reason The Boaz Club exists.
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