Lillooet BC, such an incredible community

“We’re not Todmorden” –

“we have very different conditions to work with. What we share is the same opportunity and power to evolve, to acknowledge how things are and take our next step.

There are obvious reasons to change: the threat to our town’s food supply through the effects of peak oil; an ailing economy and the poverty that follows; our responsibility to feed our children the food their bodies need and are not getting.
But above all it could be for the richness of doing something as fundamental as feeding ourselves – together – and to enjoy reconnecting on so many levels“.

If it were not for “We’re not Todmorden” these words could have been said by of any one of our IET team, you will often here us saying exactly the same.
But this is a quote from a Canadian news paper you can read this brilliant article in full in The Bridge River Lillooet News
Sarah in Lillooet BC who penned the piece and I started exchanging emails back in December 2009 and Sarah sent this Letter from Lillooet article for our site.
It’s just so heart warming and affirming to read things like this and to know that around the globe there are folk who care, and who are really trying for the changes in life style we all need to make to be sustainable, and create a safer stronger future for our children’s, children’s children.

Twice in one week we have featured in the the Canadian press in two different papers on opposite sides of the country.
With Lillooet BC in the West and Westmount, Montreal in the east, Canada could have a vast edible belt from coast to coast if it spread from town to town and joined in the middle.

That would really be INCREDIBLE, maybe ?