Feed the People Growers Cooperative

This webpage is temporary! We're still building the infrastructure for our social media pages and webpages.

Who are we?

We are determined to build a robust network of regionalized food growers through education, and resource and labour sharing, while striving to produce and distribute locally grown healthy foods for the community and food insecure. Our members engage in gathering and sharing knowledge of preparation, cultivation, production and preservation of foods using sustainable, affordable and accessible methods. We also cultivate connections with other people and organizations in the community who share the goal of food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, mutual aid and solidarity.

We recognize that the food systems we rely on are steeped in imperialism— the highest order of capitalism— and managed through colonization, bonded and demoralized labour, dispossession, and privatization as frameworks to exploit people, cultures and land. As such, our members are called upon to recognize that we organize on stolen lands under capitalism, and through our work, detangle ourselves from capitalist mode of production and dismantle settler-colonialism through developing solidarity with Indigenous peoples resisting capitalism and colonialism.  

We recognize that our current food systems are unsustainable and driven by corporate interests determined to monopolize access to seeds, fertilizers, food production and processing technologies, labour, water, and land, all the while exacerbating climate degradation. As such, our members contend with these realities and work towards food and land sovereignty, social and economic justice, and healthy agricultural ecosystems.

(a modified version of our Values, Principles and Code of Conduct)

Email us at ftpgrowerscoop@proton.me

Where are the yards and gardens?

• Community Gardens: Nelson Park, Cottonwood Park, Cedar Cottage Park

• Hosts: Kylie, Rabbit, Zoe, Alyssa, Franz & Hussain

What's on this website?

We are currently still building the capacity and infrastructure for social media and webpages, please reach out to us via email if you have any questions. Nonetheless, the guides section contains a garlic planting and seed harvesting tutorials, while the plant catalogue page for Nelson Community Park Garden has a number of entries.

Resources:

• Values, Principles and Code of Conduct

• Member On-boarding Slideshow

• MOA & ROA