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DIGGING IT: Lisa Codd at the Burnaby Village Museum wants local residents to call in with stories of what they like to grow in their gardens. The museum will then use the information to create a new demonstration garden that showcases what kinds of food people can grow locally.
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A different kind of grow-op By Jennifer Moreau
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The Burnaby Village Museum wants to know what local residents are growing in their backyards to help create a new demonstration garden on the museum grounds. The garden will showcase the kinds of food that can be grown locally, while highlighting the connection to Burnaby’s history of growing food. “I’m really interested in stories of history that show continuity between the past and the present,” said the museum’s Lisa Codd. “We’re interested in showing this land that is Burnaby has a capacity to
grow food. It had the capacity in the past, and it has the capacity in the present.” From First Nations to settlers, Burnaby has long been a place where locals have grown their own food, Codd pointed out. In times of scarcity during the Depression and the Second World War, backyard gardens offered some semblance of food security.Today, there are still local, commercial farms, but there were many more in the past, Codd explained. “In terms of the backyard, definitely an early draw to moving to Burnaby was to purchase a big enough plot of land to have a garden and raise animals.” Museum staff will start planting the large plot in April, and the garden should
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be ready by May. Codd described the space as a giant box in a meadow on the museum grounds. People will be able to stop by the museum and talk to staff and gardeners to learn tips on growing their own food. The museum wants to hear what Burnaby residents grow, how they use it, how they preserve it and how they cook it. Codd is expecting beans and tomatoes as suggestions, but she’s also interested in more varied items from other cultures. The museum is in talks with a food bank to donate the produce. If you have some suggestions for the demonstration garden, call Codd at 604297-4542.
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The City of Burnaby now has some crossCanada weight behind its call for the National Energy Board to fully restore its hearing process. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities passed a resolution Friday, calling on the NEB to reinstate full public hearings. Burnaby initially put forward the resolution at the fall meeting of the Union of B.C. Municipalities, and now the national federation has adopted it as well. UBCM president and Burnaby Coun. Sav Dhaliwal said the move sends a strong message from 2,000 municipalities across Canada. “I think most people in Burnaby are supporting what the city is doing – on principle and on safety issues – but now we also know that when we are taking this stand to go against Kinder Morgan and the NEB that we have communities across the country supporting us, so that’s a good feeling,” he told the NOW. The resolution opposes changes to the NEB’s public hearing process, specifically the loss of open meetings, oral hearings and cross-examinations. Language in the resolution calls the move a “significant erosion of the democratic rights of provinces, territories, local governments, First Nations and citizens.” The resolution also calls on the federal and provincial governments to restore the full public hearing process. The City of Burnaby is an intervenor in the NEB hearing for the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, which Mayor Derek Corrigan and city councillors oppose. According to NEB spokesperson Tara O’Donovan, the hearing process is determined by the board on a case-by-case basis. The Conservative government changed the NEB Act in 2012, and introduced a legislated timeline to have hearings completed in 15 Continued on page 8
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