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Scale Your Progressive Food Business Workshop Series
This series of five workshops provides practical tips for progressive retail and packaged goods companies to reach and maintain success. Each workshop follows the Feeding Growth recipe: personable and caring food industry mentors share advice; participants engage in hands-on exercises; and the helpful community of progressive change-makers connects over tasty local food. The series culminates […]
Maclean’s Feature: What climate change would mean for Canada’s famous landmarks
MacLean’s Feature: What climate change would mean for Canada’s famous landmarks Sean Smukler, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, was featured as part of Maclean’s Magazine’s series on climate change in an article titled “what climate change would mean for Canada’s famous landmarks.” Smukler addressed the implications of climate change – […]
Long Table Dinners
Long Table Dinners at the UBC Farm July 19 & August 15, 2019 Picture a warm summer night with live music, long tables set beneath a canopy of poplar trees, and a spectacular dinner featuring the best local, seasonal ingredients our region has to offer. This is the third annual Long Table Dinner series at […]
ReachOut Feature: Thinking Small in the Face of Climate Change
ReachOut Feature: Thinking Small in the Face of Climate Change CSFS researchers Dr. Juli Carrillo and Dr. Cara Haney were featured in the latest issue of the Land and Food Systems Faculty Journal, ReachOut, for their two-year research project investigating how beneficial soil microbes can help plants deal with the global rise in carbon dioxide. […]
ReachOut Feature: Better Veggies for Canadian Organic Farmers
ReachOut Feature: Better Veggies for Canadian Organic Farmers CSFS researchers Dr. Alexandra Lyon and Dr. Hannah Wittman were featured in the latest issue of the Land and Food Systems Faculty Journal, ReachOut, for their latest Canada-wide research venture, the Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement (CANOVI) project. The CANOVI project aims to help organic vegetable growers find […]
ReachOut Feature: Learning Tools for Just Food
ReachOut Feature: Learning Tools for Just Food Joyce Liao and Meryn Corkery, fourth-year students in the Faculty of Global Resource Systems and former and current WorkLearns (respectively) with the CSFS at UBC Farm, were featured in the latest issue of the Land and Food Systems Faculty Journal ReachOut. The feature highlights their two-year research project, […]
Food Roundtable: Knowledge from Agroecological Experience
Food Roundtable: Knowledge from Agroecological Experience As Agroecology – in its multiple dimensions – has received considerable attention in the last five years on global and regional levels, multiple requests have been made on the part of governments for a better evidence base on the performance of Agroecology vis a vis other “sustainable agriculture” systems. […]
Bees & Wax
Bees & Wax About this Workshop Honey comb appears to be nearly perfect in it’s geometric composition, each hexagonal cell identical to its neighbour. Or is it? How bees make wax and how they use it is fascinating and surprising. Let’s explore wax and it’s wonders together, what it is made of, how the bees […]
Plant structure and hydraulic function
Research Seminar Cluster Hire in LFS Applied Biology, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment, and CSFS at UBC Farm Novel insights into the coupling of plant structure and hydraulic function: Implications for sustainable crop management Dr. Thorsten Knipfer Assistant Project Scientist Department of Viticulture and Enology University of California, Davis Click here to fill out the […]
Advancing sustainable food systems in a changing world
Cluster Hire in LFS Applied Biology, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment, and CSFS at UBC Farm Research Seminar: Advancing Sustainable Food Systems in a Changing World Dr. Selena Ahmed Assistant Professor Sustainable Food Systems Montana State University Click here to fill out the Feedback Form for Dr. Selena Ahmed’s campus visit A multifaceted challenge of […]