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 feature from 2023 that covers the donation of our new farm property.
Above: A Kelowna Now feature from 2016 where OFTP Executive Director Casey Hamilton details the OFTP’s inception and history.
Above: A feature on the Ryan Don show from 2014, where OFTP Executive Director Casey Hamilton explains the premise of our Produce Rescue Program.
Above: A Castenet News feature from our 2021 Great Apple Harvest in Summerland.
Above: A Shaw TV feature from 2015 where OFTP Executive Director Casey Hamilton explains our volunteer and donation systems.
- 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
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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.