Grant Farquhar Answers 3 KCFN Questions - Kimberley Municipal Election, October 2026

Municipal elections matter. 

From land use and infrastructure to affordability, emergency preparedness, community services and local food systems (to name just a few)... politics and public policy have real consequences in our everyday lives.

With Kimberley and Cranbrook soon to be hitting the municipal ballot boxes — Advance Voting is open Wednesday, October 7 & Wednesday, October 14, with General Voting Day on Saturday, October 17 — the Kimberley Cranbrook Food Network recently narrowed our many possible interconnected food-system questions down to three (3) that we sent to all candidates for Mayor and City Council in both communities.

We're sharing their responses on our website/socials as they come back to us to help residents (which includes ourselves) hear directly from the people seeking to represent us all on important community matters such as the three questions we asked below.

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Grant Farquhar is running for Kimberley City Councillor. You can learn more about their candidacy through their Facebook page — but first, please see below for Grant's responses to our three KCFN questions, which we have shared as submitted.

Q1. What specific actions would you support at the municipal level to strengthen local food production and access to local food in our communities?

Identify and zone land for community agriculture, including microfarms, community

gardens, and neighbourhood food plots.

Support yearround production by enabling greenhouse and hoophouse structures

through flexible zoning.

Create a local food map highlighting farms, markets, and producers.

Q2. Food insecurity is affecting households in our communities, while local organizations providing food access and food-security programs are often working with limited resources. What role do you think the City should play in supporting this work, and what specific actions or partnerships would you pursue?

Support data collection so organizations can better understand local needs and plan

services.

Provide inkind support, such as meeting space, storage space, or access to municipal

kitchens. Consider long-term agreements on all aspects of these programs.

Integrate food-security organizations into emergency planning, ensuring they have

resources during wildfires, floods, or supply-chain disruptions.

Q3. Wildfires, drought, extreme weather and disruptions to transportation can affect both local food production and our communities' access to food. How should the City incorporate food security into its emergency preparedness and climate-resilience planning?

Map critical food assets — grocery stores, food banks, distribution hubs, farms, and

transportation routes — to understand vulnerabilities and plan contingencies.

Encourage backyard food production through education, seed programs, and urban

agriculture bylaws.

Support and encourage the development of backup power for key food facilities

(markets, food banks, community kitchens) so they remain operational during outages.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide answers to your questions.

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Many thanks to Grant Farquhar for taking the time to respond to our questions — and cheers to all of the candidates who have put their names forward to serve our communities in these important roles (and thank YOU for stopping by to read & add some more context to your voting decisions/discussions).

You can learn more about Grant's campaign through their Facebook page — and you can read responses from other candidates through our KCFN Municipal Election 2026 page (which we will continue to update as more responses come back).

For official municipal voting information and full candidate information, remember where you live and then visit the City of Kimberley 2026 Election page and Kimberley candidate profiles (if you live in Kimberley), or the City of Cranbrook 2026 Election page and Cranbrook candidate profiles (if you live in Cranbrook). And for wherever you live, ElectionsBC is always a good spot online to visit for trustworthy election information.

And then remember, for the upcoming Municipal Election, whether you live in Kimberley or Cranbrook or somewhere else… these are the dates for voting in the upcoming Municipal Election:

• Advance Voting: Wednesday, October 7 & Wednesday, October 14

• General Voting Day: Saturday, October 17

Please Note: Kimberley Cranbrook Food Network (KCFN) sent the same three questions to all candidates for Mayor and City Council in Kimberley and Cranbrook that we were able to find contact information for on Sunday, October 4th (27 candidates in total between both communities). Candidate responses are published as submitted, with only minor formatting changes if necessary for readability. KCFN does not endorse individual candidates, we just endorse informed & engaged voters (and we hope people find these Q&As as engaging as we do).