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The local food economy
A new source of jobs and prosperity for Canadian communities
Published in
September 2013
- Page 5
Thousands of raised vegetable boxes built on unused parking spaces in downtown Vancouver produce over 100,000 pounds of veggies annually and provide jobs for 150 youth at the SOLEfood farm.1 In a poor part of Milwaukee, a former basketball star named Will Allen has turned a derelict plant nursery into a food production centre that produces over $500,000 worth of produce, meat, and fish, and employs over 65 full-time staff. An integrated food non-profit in
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