The past week’s events have made the vulnerabilities in B.C.’s food system glaringly obvious – weaknesses that exist not just in B.C., but across the country.
picked clean as flooding cuts off major transport routes The family’s predicament mirrors the larger one that’s unfolded across British Columbia: Flooding in its agricultural heartland touched off a domino of disruption along the food supply chain, resulting in bare grocery shelves in some parts of the province, excess food in others.įarmers devastated by B.C. “We have food, but people can’t get to us.” “Other stores can’t get food in,” said Charlotte Lepp, co-owner of the market. On some days, the store has been accessible only through a gap in the barricades. Their chicken farm is also flooded: All 6,000 birds are dead.
The Lepp family’s vegetable farm in nearby Sumas Prairie is flooded. The area around it is under emergency order. Since the devastating floods in the Fraser Valley, the market has been an island, surrounded by flooded roads. But despite the store’s motto, “better when shared,” there have been few customers to feed. A chalkboard sign announces the soup of the day: cabbage beef borscht. Shiny mandarin oranges sit in wooden crates. Log In Create Free Accountįor the past week, the family-run Lepp Farm Market in Abbotsford, B.C., has been open and fully stocked.
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