Food Growers Collective

We are a food grower’s group learning to plant, harvest and preserve food while striving towards operating a food growing and skill sharing co-operative. As our initial goal we are setting our sights on growing a variety of vegetables in 2024, to help with the fridge stocking efforts of our sister DSoV working group.

We are currently in search of a couple more yards to cultivate, specifically in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver. We are also in search of a team member that gets excited about numbers and feasibility studies! If either of these fancy your interest, please contact us at - peoplesfoodcoop@proton.me 

Here is a bit more about us and our motivations:

Our mission is to follow in the traditions of the solidarity economy by organizing ourselves as a social service cooperative, and to sow seeds of regionalized food growth through skill and resource sharing, thus, enabling more people to grow food for people, not for profit. 

We remain committed to discovering our role within the anti-colonial movement, and recognize that we have a long way to go in relation to forging solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of these lands. We also remain committed to discovering ways in which we practise international solidarity with farming people around the world. 

Why this is important to us:

Global capitalism and its tentacle, global agribusiness, have been destructive aberrations. This becomes extremely clear in the impacts on our environment, cultures, and overall health outcomes, as illustrated by Colin Todhunter in his article "Sweat Shops, GMOs and Neoliberal Fundamentalism: The Agroecological Alternative to Global Capitalism", and further illustrated by A Growing Culture's article "We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit." It is imperative that those of us in the imperial strongholds not only divest from these systems of exploitation, but also strike back against them and build alternatives that care for the humanity of all people rather than profits for shareholders and owners. 

This is a labour issue, an environmental issue and an existential issue.