Did you know that the average age of farmers in Canada is 52? North America needs new people to take up the reins of farming. With fresh eyes on the ground, opportunities to reinvigorate the way food is grown are cropping up
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Story by: Kate Petrusa I thought I must be lost for sure. I was driving down 128th Street in Surrey
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Story by: Kate Petrusa In today’s world, the notion of communal living and organic community farming may conjure colourful images of dreadlocked hippies, living off the grid in order to oppose the “system”.
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Story by: Kate Petrusa Sheila Poznikoff comes from a family of people who have always grown their own food: Italian immigrants to Canada and descendents of Russian Doukhobours.
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On a typically rainy day in June 2010, a group of 80 Concert Properties staff gathered at the UBC Farm for a special volunteer event.
Read MorePosted by: scott | February 17, 2012 | no comments
Did you know that the average age of farmers in Canada is 52? North America needs new people to take up the reins of farming. With fresh eyes on the ground, opportunities to reinvigorate the way food is grown are cropping up
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight | Tags: Farmers Market, future, growing farmers, local food, new farmer, Practicum, Urban Agriculture
Posted by: ubcfarm | February 16, 2012
Story by: Kate Petrusa I thought I must be lost for sure. I was driving down 128th Street in Surrey
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight | Tags: farming, future, growing farmers, local food, new farmer, Practicum
Posted by: ubcfarm | February 16, 2012
Story by: Kate Petrusa In today’s world, the notion of communal living and organic community farming may conjure colourful images of dreadlocked hippies, living off the grid in order to oppose the “system”.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight | Tags: farming, growing farmers, local food, new farmer, Practicum
Posted by: ubcfarm | February 14, 2012
Story by: Kate Petrusa Sheila Poznikoff comes from a family of people who have always grown their own food: Italian immigrants to Canada and descendents of Russian Doukhobours.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight | Tags: farming, future, growing farmers, local food, new farmer, Practicum
Posted by: Gemma | February 13, 2012 | no comments
On a typically rainy day in June 2010, a group of 80 Concert Properties staff gathered at the UBC Farm for a special volunteer event.
Filed under: Spotlight | Tags: Concert Properties, Tapestry, Vantage Point, Volunteering, Wesbrook Village
Posted by: ubcfarm | October 27, 2011 | no comments
The UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture is a part-time, 8-month program that offers instruction and daily work experience in small-scale sustainable farm management.
Filed under: Spotlight Archive | Tags: future, Land and Food Systems, new farmer, Practicum, sustainable, Urban Agriculture
Posted by: jennhoney | September 20, 2011 | 2 comments
To many consumers, the tomato has become an indicator of food system health. Or – in the minds of foodies everywhere – the embodiment of a food system that’s lost its flavour.
Filed under: Spotlight Archive | Tags: fertilizer, plant science, Student projects, sustainable, tomato
Posted by: ubcfarm | June 1, 2011
The initial reinvention of the UBC South Campus farm was founded upon two visionary documents. The first, “Re-Inventing the UBC Farm,” provided a high-level vision for bringing together urban agriculture and forestry on the Point Grey campus, and the second, “Elaboration of an Alternative,” proposed a detailed physical plan and program for the south campus [...]
Filed under: History, Publications, Student Projects | Tags: land use planning, landscape architecture, papers, strategic planning, Student projects, Urban Agriculture
Posted by: ubcfarm | June 1, 2011 | no comments
“Mob Grazing” has received glowing reports of being everything from a recipe for healthier soils to a tool to fight climate change. How will it work at the UBC Farm?
Filed under: Spotlight Archive | Tags: animal behaviour, animal welfare, Joel Salatin, Land and Food Systems, Livestock, Temple Grandin, Urban Agriculture
