OFTP in the Media
Since our inception, the OFTP has been featured in lots of articles and local media. Check out the videos and articles below to learn more about the OFTP’s beginnings, programming, and the work we do in the community!
Video features:
Above: A Global Okanagan, 2023
Above: Kelowna Now, 2016
Above: Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship (UBC Okanagan), 2022
Above: Shaw TV, 2015
Above: Castenet News, 2021
Above: Ryan Don Show, 2014
- Turcato, M. (2023). Generous land donation boost Okanagan food charity. Global Okanagan.
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Richardson, C. (2021) Harvesting to feed others. Castanet News.
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Arstad, S. (2015). City grant helping to reduce fresh fruit and produce waste. Info News.
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Unknown. (2015) Unique program gathers fruit to feed less fortunate. Times Chronicle.
- Beischer, A., & Corbett, J. (2016). Food justice as a response to hunger on our Canadian foodscapes: How a community-gleaning project is addressing depoliticized food insecurity through a food justice praxis. Justice spatiale-Spatial justice, 9, http-www.
- Hamilton, C. L. (2017). Urban agriculture policy community Kelowna (Masters thesis, University of British Columbia).
Okanagan Fruit Tree Project Society
PO Box 22001
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 9N9
250.277.1932
info@fruittreeproject.com
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We acknowledge that we are situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People. We recognize, honour and respect the presence of Indigenous people, past, present and future.