Province studying how to help local seed producers

An investment in seed production will help increase food security across BC, including on Vancouver Island. The province announced Monday that it is looking into adding infrastructure to increase local production of vegetable, grain and plant seeds.
 
“All seed producers in our area have been struggling to increase our production in order to keep up with increased demand,” Saanich Organics’ Theresa Heinekey said in the government’s news release.
 
“Many seed producers are smaller, family-run farms that cannot afford their own seed cleaning and packaging equipment, but, by expanding the role of our food hubs to include those services, we can help solve that problem,” Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Lana Popham said.