RE: Establishment of a Calgary Food Policy Council (a voluntary citizen body with formal links to the City system)
Objectives
1. Recognize the Calgary Food Policy Council
2. Community Food System Assessment
The simple, basic, no frills, fundamental motion:
"I move that Calgary City Council recognize the Calgary Food Policy Council."
After this, all the great ideas that make up a FPC can be added, as you can see below sig file in the minutes from Vancouver Council, but here is how it looks, Calgary style:
"THAT, in order to provide leadership in developing a just and sustainable food system for the City of Calgary that fosters equitable food access, nutrition, community development and environmental health, Council recognize the Calgary Food Policy Council (a voluntary citizen body with formal links to the City system) with a mandate to act as an advisory and policy development body."
Calgary has a Food Policy Council... We are asking Calgary City Council to recognize the CFPC. Upon recognition, the CFPC will coordinate/conduct a community food system assessment (see below signature file). After the assessment, we begin to target those areas of our local food system that require progressive policy in order to become more efficient, fair, just and secure.
Respectfully,
Paul Hughes
Chair, Calgary Food Policy Council
Monday, July 13, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Calgary 2011 on the cover of FFWD
Calgary 2011 on the cover of FFWD
Room to grow
The push is on to grow food in our unused spaces
Published July 9, 2009
by Julie Van Rosendaal in Urban Living
Andy Nichols: photo
If Calgary has an excess of anything, it’s space. Space that needs to be maintained. Each year crews of gardeners, landscapers and snow removers spend thousands of hours and many tax dollars keeping green (and not so green) spaces tidy. Paul Hughes, a well-entrenched local landscaper and the founder and chair of the Calgary Food Policy Council, would like to see that excess city land put to better use; preferably growing food.
“We are anti-grass,” Hughes says of his group, over coffee in a corner booth at Café Beano. “Calgary has more space than any urban area in North America and most of it isn’t being used well.” To be precise, there are almost 8,000 hectares of usable land in Calgary that Hughes envisions being transformed into edible green spaces by anyone who has the will and a shovel. “Wouldn’t it be a waste of ice if we didn’t have hockey or curling?” he asks.
Room to grow
The push is on to grow food in our unused spaces
Published July 9, 2009
by Julie Van Rosendaal in Urban Living
Andy Nichols: photo
If Calgary has an excess of anything, it’s space. Space that needs to be maintained. Each year crews of gardeners, landscapers and snow removers spend thousands of hours and many tax dollars keeping green (and not so green) spaces tidy. Paul Hughes, a well-entrenched local landscaper and the founder and chair of the Calgary Food Policy Council, would like to see that excess city land put to better use; preferably growing food.
“We are anti-grass,” Hughes says of his group, over coffee in a corner booth at Café Beano. “Calgary has more space than any urban area in North America and most of it isn’t being used well.” To be precise, there are almost 8,000 hectares of usable land in Calgary that Hughes envisions being transformed into edible green spaces by anyone who has the will and a shovel. “Wouldn’t it be a waste of ice if we didn’t have hockey or curling?” he asks.
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