Submission to the Agricultural Land Reserve Minister’s Advisory Committee by Guy Dauncey and Rob Buchan. Deadline for letters and submissions Monday April 30th 2018.
https://engage.gov.bc.ca/agriculturallandreserve/
For an illustrated slideshow on this proposal, see https://www.slideshare.net/GuyDauncey/farm-villages
Introduction
Throughout the world, in every culture, farmers have lived and raised their children in small farm villages.
Here on Vancouver Island, 95% of our food is imported every day on the ferries. At the same time, good farmland sits empty or grows hay, while younger people who want to get onto the land to grow food are unable to do so because of the incredibly high price of land.
The Practical Utopian 