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[Mike K.]

You can't build a house, but you can build tennis courts: http://victoria.citi...op-valley-4225/

[pinguu]

You can't build a house, but you can build tennis courts: http://victoria.citi...op-valley-4225/

 

Maybe they'll be herding yuppies?

[VicHockeyFan]

So this looks to be the last Alberg Farm lot.

 

https://www.realtor....Columbia-V8N1Z9

 

$799,000.  

 

I wonder what kind of money the Alberg's made, when all added up?

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 18 June 2017 - 08:14 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria city councillors are exploring using city-owned nurseries and greenhouses to grow food for the public.

In a motion coming to committee of the whole on Thursday, Couns. Ben Isitt and Jeremy Loveday are asking the city to redistribute some of its Park and Recreation resources to grow food, and to work with partnering societies and communities to distribute the seedlings to the community.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....uring-covid-19/

[sebberry]

Mason Street farm not big enough?

[Bernard]

 

Victoria city councillors are exploring using city-owned nurseries and greenhouses to grow food for the public.

In a motion coming to committee of the whole on Thursday, Couns. Ben Isitt and Jeremy Loveday are asking the city to redistribute some of its Park and Recreation resources to grow food, and to work with partnering societies and communities to distribute the seedlings to the community.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....uring-covid-19/

 

 

WTF!!!???!  They really think that this could have any useful benefit for anyone?   So tractors are going to be coming into town to plow up the parks to try and plant a few acres of food?   The CoV greenhouses are way too small to have any impact at all when it comes to food.

[Nparker]

 

Victoria city councillors are exploring using city-owned nurseries and greenhouses to grow food for the public.

I want to believe this is an April Fool's Day joke, but it seems exactly like the sort of hair-brained scheme this council would endorse.

[Bernard]

I want to believe this is an April Fool's Day joke, but it seems exactly like the sort of hair-brained scheme this council would endorse.

It is not an April Fool's joke.   It is simply people not being able to see the bigger picture, ever.

[Jackerbie]

 

Victoria city councillors are exploring using city-owned nurseries and greenhouses to grow food for the public.

In a motion coming to committee of the whole on Thursday, Couns. Ben Isitt and Jeremy Loveday are asking the city to redistribute some of its Park and Recreation resources to grow food, and to work with partnering societies and communities to distribute the seedlings to the community.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....uring-covid-19/

 

 

FWIW, if you look at the motion you'll see that this is a "scale up" of the existing Growing in the City program in partnership with Urban Food Table, SD61, and local farmers.

[Rob Randall]

^Correct me if I'm wrong but that initiative encourages people to either grow for their own use or grow to sell to others at market retail prices.

 

I don't see anything in their mandate saying government itself should be doing the growing.

 

From what I understand, at least 20,000 seedlings have been planted and all this produce will be ready in a few weeks and will be released into the marketplace for free. 

[Jackerbie]

^Correct me if I'm wrong but that initiative encourages people to either grow for their own use or grow to sell to others at market retail prices.

 

I don't see anything in their mandate saying government itself should be doing the growing.

 

From what I understand, at least 20,000 seedlings have been planted and all this produce will be ready in a few weeks and will be released into the marketplace for free. 

 

Free distribution of plants was a recommended initiative in the 2019 update, as part of the "Explore opportunities for increasing food production on private land" action in the Strategic Plan. That action was identified for roll-out in 2020.

[Rob Randall]

^Free distribution of seedlings, not produce?

[Jackerbie]

^Free distribution of seedlings, not produce?

 

Correct. The recommendation was for the City to offer "gardening materials," which could include mulch, soil, and plants.

[Mike K.]

The plants were to be excess capacity left over once the City has used what it needs, and as a source of native species for those that want them.

This is all so very weird. Beacon Hill cannot have food trucks but the parks department can sell flowers.

[Nparker]

Beacon Hill cannot have food trucks but the parks department can sell flowers

And the greenhouses adjacent to BHP* can be used for growing food. 

* I am not sure if they are actually on park land

[Jackerbie]

The plants were to be excess capacity left over once the City has used what it needs, and as a source of native species for those that want them.

This is all so very weird. Beacon Hill cannot have food trucks but the parks department can sell flowers.

 

And the greenhouses adjacent to BHP* can be used for growing food. 

* I am not sure if they are actually on park land

 

It's not the first time.... the City grew seed potatoes in the park back in the 40s and sold them to residents

[Mike K.]

Precisely which years of the 40s? 

[Jackerbie]

Precisely which years of the 40s? 

“Potatoes grown by the city at Beacon Hill Park and other locations will be sold to citizens as certified seed for use next year, Ald. Duncan D. McTavish, Chairman of the Parks Committee, announced.” (Times, May 21, 1942, p. 16)

 

And from the 1932 Annual Report, “Potatoes were planted on Park land along Cook Street, between May and Leonard to 'clean up the land prior to planting a lawn. Yielded 13.25 tons.'"

[G-Man]

^ In the 1940's, If you look at the 1998 BHP decision, this would no longer be allowed under the law. Technically the CoV even having a nursery there is in contravention of the BHP trust. It would be fine if they removed the fence and allowed the public in though. 

[Mike K.]

Ok, during WWII when global supply chains focused heavily on supplying theatres of a global war.

The population at that time was also quite small on the south Island, like 50,000, give or take, and much of the region’s land supply was devoted to productive farmland. Back then we actually could feed ourselves.