Creston & District Community Directed Funds
119 11th Avenue North V0B 1G0 Creston, BC, Canada

The search is still on! Apply to coordinate the C&DCDF food systems initiative by Thursday the 25th.

Help us find someone amazing to lead the first C&DCDF project!

The first newsletter from the first C&DCDF initiative!

Check out images from last week's Fields Forward launch forum. It was so inspiring to see people come together around the belief that local food and farming can drive community and economic development for our area!

Interested in learning more about Fields Forward - the new C&CDF partnership for local food and farming? Like the new FF Facebook page!

What's the word on the street about the new C&DCDF Fields Forward initiative? Here's what Committee Chair and Kootenay Employment Services Society Executive Director, Hugh Grant has to say... Our community believes that strengthening our food system would improve local quality of life. We heard time and again that people want to see more jobs in local food and farming. Meaningful employment for district residents is one of the core goals that Fields Forward has been designed to act on.

What's the word on the street about the new C&DCDF Fields Forward initiative? Here's what Town of Creston Councilor and Creston Valley Farmers' Market Manager, Jen Comer has to say... Taking the leap from big dreams to bold steps can sometimes seem impossible. But I feel like we are ready to make that leap in our community when it comes to food and farming. Over the last few years, we have dreamed big we want to see everything from more food being grown on our fields to m...ore local meals on our tables. I believe that the Fields Forward partnership can pull us together and use the small successes we have all been seeing as building blocks for bigger wins. Want the scoop on Fields Forward? Visit:communityfund.ca/fields-forward/

C&DCDF announces its first initiative: Fields Forward! Learn about this bold new effort to realize the community's vision for local food and farming...

Creston & District setting a global fashion trend? Delegates from New York and Columbia wearing our happiness buttons at the #OECD5WF World Forum in Mexico. #happy

#foodsecurity and #childwellbeing... Learning about key community development issues for Creston & District at the #OECD5WF World Forum.

Talking about the Creston & District Better Life Project at the #OECD5WF World Forum!

We are at the #OECD5WF to learn more about using the results of our happiness survey to improve quality of life from Yahk to Riondel. This morning, a presentation from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on economic equality.