Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust
Bringing Farmland, People and Knowledge Together.
To help local food take root
With close to 200 farms, Salt Spring Island is known for its robust food and farm culture. But, did you know that only a small percentage of the food Islanders purchase and consume is local? Join us to create a more vibrant, secure, and economically prosperous community.
LOCAL FOOD HUB & BUSINESS INCUBATOR
Salt Spring's only commercial Food Hub empowers local food producers to process, preserve, and distribute delicious local food.
The Root is home to:
• 9 farm-to-table food businesses
• commercial kitchen
• food storage for farmers and growers
• Seed Sanctuary
• Ox Eats Grass Food Truck
• Community Fridge
The Root
BURGOYNE VALLEY
Community Farm
The Farmland Trust is on a mission to preserve, promote, and revitalize local agriculture!
In addition to running a 60 acre community farm with 4 farmers and 90 community gardeners, we are working to acquire and restore farmland so that farmers and growers can have affordable access to land: for generations.
Salt Spring Food Share
Sharing Food, Growing Community
The Food Share exists to help increase the amount of local food grown and shared and eaten on Salt Spring Island!
We host a weekly Food Exchange where folks can share homegrown and homemade foods with each other. We also coordinate an island wide fruit and produce harvesting program to ensure that over-abundant trees and gardens get harvested and shared amongst the community.
We envision a resilient and abundant local food system that can feed each other no matter what the future holds. Ferry delays? Chaotic weather? Supply chain disruptions? We've got each other covered!
Other Programs
Seed Saving Program
Save some seeds, get some seeds
Seed saving is an integral part of building local food sovereignty and resilience.
We support the Salt Spring Seed Sanctuary Society - a charitable organization dedicated to the health and vitality of the earth.
It serves as a community seed bank and learning centre to encourage local food and seed production.
Neighbours Feeding Neighbours
Food sovereignty today for food security tomorrow
Neighbours Feeding Neighbours is a research project aimed at strengthening food security on Salt Spring Island through farmer-focussed emergency preparedness.
Aware that farms are often the heart of community resilience, we are bringing neighbours together around shared tables to collaborate and strengthen local networks, while developing resources and guides to help farmers — and those they feed — to become better resourced for times of crisis.
Royal Roads University and the Farmland Trust
Bloom Castle by the Sea
The Farmland Trust is honoured to be stewarding the Bloom oceanside estate, upholding the vision Susan Bloom held for this special place to become a nexus for regenerative living.
We care for a heritage apple orchard that is both a community commons and growing space: a place where people and nature can come together to learn, grow, and nourish one another.
We respectfully acknowledge that the SSIFLT is within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking Coast Salish peoples.