Agri-Food Trade Service (ATS) web site is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's electronic service providing international trade and market information for Canadian agri-food exporters. Check it out for market information, export news and analysis, and much more. Latest ATS headlines are also available.

au courant, the newsletter of the Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers of Canada, provides information of interest to those who produce and package consumer goods - including food - in Canada..

BC Food Protection Association's web site is worth a visit. The BCFPA's most recent newsletter, The Grapevine, is also available.

British Columbia Institute of Technology offers many courses of interest to small scale food processors..

CEDTAP (Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program). These are the great people who helped SSFPA get started and are still investing in our cause. Windmills on the Toronto waterfront, fish processing in Saskatchewan, immigrant women sewing conference bags in Edmonton - learn more about the innovative projects CEDTAP supports all across Canada.

LifeCyles Fruit Tree Project in Victoria may still have some pure, fresh-pressed apple juice (UV pasteurized and made from unsprayed apples) available from its final batch. $5 per 2 litre jug; $4.50 is you buy 6 jugs or more. Call Laryl at (250) 385-7425. Freeze it for a Christmas treat!

Local Food System Masters Project - University of Michigan. In the US, food travels an estimated 1500 miles before it reaches the dinner table. Read some interesting research on local food economies and farming systems.

Smart Growth BC Launches ALR Watch Listserve. Agriculture and food processing support the livelihood of over 200,000 British Columbians and contributes over $2.2 billion to the economy. All this occurs with less than 5% of the province's 5% of the provincial land base. Smart Growth BC has established a new ALR Watch listserve to inform people who are passionate about its protection. To join, send a blank e-mail to:
alrwatch-subscribe@smartgrowth.bc.ca

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Coming Events

Winter Farmers Market in Vancouver. Saturday & Sunday, December 11 and 12, 10 am to 4 pm. Heritage Hall (Main Street & 15 th Avenue).

The State of the Fraser Basin Conference. Nov 26-27. Achieving a sustainable Fraser Basin is perhaps the most critical challenge facing the 2.7 million British Columbians who live, work and play in the Fraser Basin. This is billed as BC's biggest and most important sustainability conference ever. Details and on-line registration can be found at the web site.

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