Food has always played a significant role in human identity and society, yet access to enough healthy and culturally appropriate food is a major inequity among rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. In 2021, Ecotrust Canada began planting seeds to address food security and sovereignty in Prince Rupert, BC. Our Food Systems work aims to build upon the groundswell of food security work that local organizations have already undertaken to realize lasting solutions to local food systems challenges on the traditional territories of the Coast Ts’msyen Peoples. With our partners, we seek to contribute to a collaborative, vibrant, and innovative local food economy built by and for communities on the North Coast with rippling effects in the Skeena Bulkley Valley regions. ...
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