Here is a list of individuals, companies, ideas and links that you may find useful.

www.spinfarming.com
These people are amazing. First rate information on best methods for successful small plot farming. If you want to become an urban farmer, this is required reading.

www.seasoil.com
This is composted fish and forest fines soil from Vancouver Island. Sea Soil has NO foul Odor, has a PH of 6.5, and is weed-free.
OMRI Listed.

www.westcoastseeds.com
Great seed supplier with useful information on growing veggies on the west coast. They produce an excellent catalogue full of local knowledge.

www.cityfarmer.org
Canada's office of Urban Agriculture. They people are amazing - 30 years of promoting urban farming!

The Vancouver Guerrilla Gardening Meetup Group
Motivated to create positive change. Subversive and professional. Globally minded. Join this group of urban nature lovers and help beautify our neglected city spaces.

www.cityharvest.ca
Fellow urban farmers operating in Victoria, BC.

www.garlicfarm.ca
Boundary Garlic specializes in heritage seed garlic. Excellent website for information on growing, storing and cooking garlic.

www.fullcircleseeds.com
Locally grown seed, open pollinated, and certified organic.

www.saltspringseeds.com
Dedicated to a safe and sustainable agriculture.

www.stellarseeds.com
Certified organic, grown in BC, Heritage Varieties.

www.brothernature.ca
A small Vancouver Island based Organic Seed company who pride themselves in producing strong, vibrant organically-grown annuals, perennial, herb vegetable seed.

www.theurbanfarmer.ca
Another fellow urban agriculturalist. If you're in Edmonton, Alberta, this is the guy to see for your urban agriculture.

www.producer.com
The Western Producer. The best farming newspaper in the west.

Media Links

Vancouver Sun - Concrete jungle may give way to an urban vegetable patch

CBC TV - Living Vancouver - City Farm Boy

Urban Farming / Agriculture Related Stories

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/sustainable-farming.html

BC Ministry of Agriculture Report on BC's Food Self Reliance - pdf - 1 MB

The Future of Food - YouTube - first 10 minutes of a documentary on the food we eat. Dramatic, informative and scary.