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Local and urban agriculture grows food, business, and community

October 6th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Local and urban agriculture grows food, business, and community)

Christopher Brown — aka “Farmer Brown” — participates in a locally owned and operated growers co-operative that delivers food to Nanaimo’s Farmer’s Markets

picture 590aA little over a year ago a group of local farmers just south of Nanaimo formed a partnership called the Farmship Growers Co-operative. As reported in theĀ Nanaimo Daily News, the group worked out a deal in which they would lease nine acres of the Wyndlow Farm…along with Chris Brown, a new farmer who just wrapped up his first year growing food in the Cowichan Valley.” Chris is one of a burgeoning new generation of urban farmers reimagining and reinventing farming for a new century.

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Men’s panel takes a look at current men’s issues

October 6th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Men’s panel takes a look at current men’s issues)

From men’s rights to domestic violence, we convene a men’s panel to focus on current issues

picture 589When a men’s rights group working against “bigotry that is routinely practiced against men and boys in this culture” planned its first major conference this year, protesters were fighting for the event to be cancelled (see The Huffington Post). The push for “men’s rights” has for some time been a hotly-debated concept—and has been seen as a push-back against hard-won rights for women.

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HeroWork is a community movement that shows Victoria at its finest

September 23rd, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on HeroWork is a community movement that shows Victoria at its finest)

The HeroWork Society helps non-profits renovate community infrastructure at a fraction of the normal cost and time—with modern-day versions of an old-fashioned barn-raising

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When Victoria’s Threshold Housing Society received the donation of a $725,000 four-unit apartment building to help house homeless youth, they turned to renovations phenom Paul Latour and his ground-breaking HeroWork initiative for help. The building, located on Davie Street in the South Jubilee neighbourhood, could house up to 8 youth, but needed to be brought up to code, furnished and made user-ready.

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Nanaimo’s South End in Great Places in Canada vote

August 26th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Nanaimo’s South End in Great Places in Canada vote)