Green Party’s Elizabeth May endorses national food security program

By Natalie North, Saanich News

Overlooking Saanich farmland from the summit of Mount Douglas, the next generation of local farmers spoke about the importance of food security and healthy food.

Students from the global studies class at Claremont have been learning to farm through Growing-Young-Farmers, a program launched by organic farming advocate Dave Friend and aimed at teaching school-aged kids how to produce their own food. They met with Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May on the mountain Wednesday, in an effort to make food security a priority for all levels of government.

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