The Local Food Initiative (LFI) and the Indigenous Friendship Society of Revelstoke (IFSR) have partnered to develop a 1.8 acre plot of urban land into an educational food project at Powerhouse Road.

The purpose of Food Commons is to create a community space to grow food and share knowledge in ways that honours the land and the people who use it – in the past, present, and future. By engaging with Indigenous leaders and knowledge keepers, local growers, and the community at large, Food Commons aims to take steps towards reconciliation and enhancing food security in Revelstoke. Read more here.

Values

A profound relationship with the land, plants, animals, and ecosystems that is rooted in gratitude, reciprocity, and balance.
Embrace all who want to contribute to the Food Commons in the spirit of community.
Offering equal access to a sustainable and just food system for all Revelstokians
Care for and deep connection to the land.
Open to learning and unlearning.
Of the rich connection to food in Revelstoke that brings us together
To be innovative & embrace new ways of knowing.

VISION

The Food Commons is an educational and community farm that honors Indigenous foodways and supports food security for present and future generations.

MISSION

The IFSR and LFI are working together to restore 1.8 acres of land into a welcoming gathering space where we grow, harvest and share food and knowledge. The Food Commons will host financially sustainable programs to ensure the long-term resilience of the project.

Volunteers constructing community garden beds

Volunteers helped us build 16 raised beds for community gardening

Volunteers helped us construct 16 raised beds for community gardening in May 2025.

Grade 11/12 Biology class building a composter at the Food Commons

Completed composter, built by grade 11/12 biology students

Our new shed, built by North Columbia Builders.

A professional development day for SD19 hosted at the Food Commons, with CSISS.

Fence building with the help of volunteers

Finishing up our large fence. Thanks to everyone who helped out!

Cover cropping the demonstration farm in Spring 2025

The first crop at the Food Commons - Tobacco! Planted and harvested by the RSS Indigenous Education class

The future smokehouse - a special day building a traditional Sinixt smokehouse with members from the Sinixt Confederacy. We are honoured to have you here!

Community Engagement

In 2024 the LFI and IFSR engaged community members from Revelstoke Secondary School, local farmers, and Indigenous Elders and leaders from the Sinixt, the Secwépemc, the Syilx and the Ktunaxa nations. The intention of our engagement is to gather feedback for developing the highest and best use of the land to serve our community.

Check out our concept plan here!

Have your say on the Food Commons: fill out our community engagement survey.

Visit Food Commons! Find us on Powerhouse Road, near the Revelstoke Disc Golf Course.

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We are so excited to be co-hosting a film viewing of Tea Creek with @revelstokeclimatecoalition! This award winning film portrays Indigenous Food Sovereignty in action, and offers a pathway towards healing in the face of climate change. Join us for t

On Saturday, October 4, a group of passionate seed savers gathered at the Food Commons to share stories of connection and hope through seeds. 🫘
Thank you so much to @columbiashuswapinvasives and @revelstokelocalfood for sharing your knowledge! Keep

Join us Saturday October 4 at the Food Commons for a workshop on Seed Saving. 🌱
Seed-savers from the LFI and CSISS will walk us through how to save vegetable, flower, and native plant seeds so you can sow them next season.
Why save seeds?
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This Sunday, volunteers came out to the Food Commons to frame out a very special structure: This smokehouse was inspired by paintings from the 1800’s depicting Sinixt smokehouses that were used to cure salmon. Remey Lacomb and Rick Desautel, t

We are so excited to be joined by Remey Lacomb and Rick Desautel who will be demonstrating how to build a traditional Sinixt smokehouse at the Food Commons this Sunday!
This smokehouse will help to promote Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Revelstoke b

Today, the RSS Grade 8 Indigenous Studies class harvested and hung to dry Food Commons’ very first crop: Tobacco! 🌱
These tobacco plants were planted in the spring by the previous Indigenous Studies class, and we’re excited to say&helli

Honouring Indigenous Foodways looks like a lot of things, and some of those things don’t look like your average farm! 🫐
The Food Commons demonstration farm is only 1/16 of the whole 2 acre area! But that’s not our whole food production a

Our deer fence is going up, one post at a time!🦌

We asked, you answered! 💛
Thank you so much to everyone who filled out our community engagement survey (which is still up on our website!). We learned more about the communities priorities and interests, and this feedback is helping guide our next

We want your feedback

Questions? Suggestions? We want to hear them. Send Teal an email and she will get back to you as soon as she can.

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Send us a message with the subject “Food Commons Email List”, and click “Sign up for News and Events” below.

Join one of our Focus Groups!

If you have a specific interest in accessibility or in garden development, please consider joining our Accessibility Focus Group or Garden Focus Group. We are looking for feedback, ideas, and knowledge from experts and passionate people on the design of the Food Commons space: just put “_____ Focus Group” as the subject of your email!

Working Together

Thank you so much to our collaborators and funding partners. This project would not be possible without the help of

The City of Revelstoke - For granting access to the land. Through community engagement on their Powerhouse Road Park Concept plan, the City of Revelstoke recognized the need for a community garden and has since worked together with the LFI and the IFSR to create the Food Commons.

Our In-Kind donors - Thank you so much for volunteering your services!