Getting Your Hands Dirty: Restorative Agriculture in the Inner City

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Saturday, September 28th, 2013
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Seann Dory is the co-founder and co-director of SoleFood Farm a social enterprise that trains and employs Downtown Eastisde residents in agriculture. SoleFood has transformed 4 � acres of Vancouver into Street Farms that supply Vancouver�s markets and restaurants.

At this talk, Seann will speak about the restorative nature of agriculture and it�s affects on the farmers at SoleFood. In a time when urban dwellers have become disconnected from where their food comes from, what happens when you put the farm in the city?

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Before starting Sole Food, Seann was a project manager at United We Can a social enterprise creating employment opportunity for inner city residents through environmental enterprises. Seann is a founding member of the Young Agrarians, an initiative to recruit, promote and support young farmers in Canada.

Seann speaks regularly about food, sustainability and inner city development and has presented at the EAT Vancouver Festival and the Projecting Change Film Festival. Seann is a graduate of the Sustainable Community Development program at Simon Fraser University and a member of the National Farmers Union.