A new canning program is taking advantage of empty community kitchens in northern B.C. Empowering Family Health is a new program running in the North Cariboo district that aims to promote healthier lifestyles through activities like canning and gardening in small rural communities. It takes advantage of under-utilized community halls and transforms them into spaces where community members can grow and preserve their own food, free of charge. Heloise Dixon-Warren is the leader of Empowering Family Health - a collective that aims to bring food security to rural towns in northern B.C. Food security and food preservation are at the heart of the Empowering Family Health program, which received $20,000 in funding from Northern Health.

Source: CBC News September 17, 2016 23:26 UTC