Southlands in Transition

The last of five public Tsawwassen Area Plan Committee meetings was held this past Saturday. The Southlands and agriculture ‘at the edge” were the topics of discussion. The event was very well attended (eight hundred or so?)

The presentations by Kristine Taybe and Ron Plowright were very interesting indeed. Unfortunately some rude people had to butt in with unnecessary cat calls towards the end of Ron’s presentation. Perhaps they were frightened by some of the truisms as they relate to food and community?

Sean gave a good presentation as well, and reminded the attendees that the process has been a long and detailed one thus far.

Wendy Holm wrapped up the presentations with a discussion of soil capability of the lands and offered some thoughts on how the land could be used for mentoring new farmers via some sort of co-operative amongst universities which would somehow be funded by the UN or government or somebody. I didn’t really get that part.

Anyway, it was interesting to see that education seems to be a parallel thought process.

What did you think? Here is what was said in the October 31 Optimist.