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Canada: Urban farm helps strengthen food security in Kamloops

The council just recently found out the project has been awarded a $30,000 grant from Peavy Industries.

By Adam Donnelly
CFJC
Aug 4, 2020

Excerpt:

KAMLOOPS — If you travel along Clapperton Road in Kamloops, there’s one property that stands out. Located just behind the Butler Auto and RV lots, it’s owned by the same family; instead of trailers, it’s a working urban garden, which produces a cornucopia of fresh food.

“When we arrived here in April, this lot looked like a dustbowl,” Pankewich explains. “A weedy dustbowl, at that.”

You couldn’t tell that by looking at it now. Peas are ready to be picked. Tomatoes are ripening on the vine. Cabbages are prepared to be plucked. It’s come a long way since Glenn Hilke first drove by about six years ago.

“I saw this empty lot. I’d passed by it thousands of times,” Hilke says. “That day, for some reason, I thought ‘wow, this would make a great garden.’ So I went looking for the owner. I found someone crossing Wilson Street, who told me the owner was Joe Butler, the owner of Butler RV.”

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