NANAIMO COMMUNITY GARDENS

Our Society is dedicated to creating a healthy community and environment. We are concerned that most food in our community is produced and distributed through practices that employ pesticides, excessive packaging and distant transport to get food to our plates - practices that pollute our soils, air, water and bodies. Monoculture and genetic engineering threaten biodiversity and our long-term survival by contributing to the mass extinction, and contamination, of our heritage food plants. Furthermore, corporate patents on seeds threaten our legal rights and ability to be self-reliant in food... The Nanaimo Community Gardens Society (NCGS) recognizes that a sustainable food system is the foundation of a healthy community... We work in collaboration with individuals, agencies and government to get more food grown, shared, and purchased locally through various programs. We recognize sustainable food production as a vital part of creating a healthy community in which all people have..

Primary location: Nanaimo Canada