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Kamloops is a beautiful blooming community with an abundance of sunshine and warm weather. Our grow season for plants, fruits, herbs and vegetables is substantial and creates a vast array of succulent greenery both edible and decorative. Our green thumb is so apparent that we will be hosting the 2015 Communities in Bloom symposium and awards for provincial, national and international communities competing this year! Kamloops has been such a consistent winner at both national and international levels that we have to wait for two years to compete again and will have to set our standards even higher when we are eligible to do so! Everyone can appreciate the lengths our community will go to in order to provide a new potential gardener with the knowledge and encouragement to grow their own garden delights. The Garden Gate Horticulture Program, presented by the Open Door Group is an innovative horticulture project that aims to promote healthy eating and active living for persons living with mental health issues. Garden Gate provides rehabilitation, life skills training and vocational training for participants while providing volunteer opportunities for members of the community. Healthy Living workshops include sessions on gardening,
nutrition, cooking, food preservation, building, crafts, mechanics, pre-employment skills and life skills. Programs take place in a greenhouse, vegetable garden and a kitchen classroom. Participants and volunteers increase their own food security by being able to take home organic produce in exchange for their help in the garden, while increasing the food security of the community by producing organic fruits and vegeta-
bles for local food charities. The Community Food Action Program (CFAP) began in April 2012 providing a year-round program composed of five major elements. These elements work in tandem to maximize efficiency of services and resources. The program provides poverty relief, educational, economical, nutritional, volunteer, food security and food sharing opportunities for all ages in the community.
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The program is made possible by the financial support of the IHA Community Food Initiative, United Way, City of Kamloops and the BC Gaming Community Fund. Community benefits include food recovery as food is diverted from landfills, peer support, bear aware actions, increased food security, fresh and free produce to the impoverished and program volunteers, civic participation, - continued on page 2
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