By Chelsea Kemp, Brandon Sun, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Already scrambling to adjust to current supply chain woes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, local businesses are now concerned with the potential effects record-breaking rainfall and flooding in B.C. — which have closed highways and cut off rail access to Canada’s biggest port — will have here at home.
Continue reading Supply chain crunch a ‘nightmare’ for local businessesBy Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Grocery shopping online is convenient. A convenience farmers fear could put them out of business.
Continue reading Grocery shopping online could put farmers out of businessThe Cortes community is in various levels of emergency mode: the climate emergency has moved many people to increase their local self-reliance. Community non-profits like the Cortes Community Economic Development Association, the Friends of Cortes Island Society and Climate Hope are organizing to relocalize essential needs like food production.
And then the covid-19 pandemic came along with its own challenges to the established modern food systems – bacon is under threat.
Continue reading The Humble Cortes Island Shellfish Farmer
