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Cultivating the Organic Opportunity for Canadian Farmers and Consumers
Cultivating the Organic Opportunity for Canadian Farmers and Consumers September 12, 2025 At the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm, research is underway to improve farm management practices in tandem with producers. In its goal to be a model organic farm, UBC Farm is investigating ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen […]
Pollinator Picnic
Pollinator Picnic At the UBC Farm Farmers’ Market Saturday, June 28 | 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Join us as we celebrate the hardworking heroes of our food system — pollinators! From bees and butterflies to birds and bats, these tiny creatures play a big role in bringing fresh food to our tables. […]
Spring Foraging
Spring Foraging About the Workshop How would you survive without a grocery store? Chef Robin Kort will teach you how to find wild spring treasures; edible trees like evergreens, delicious wildflowers, introduced edibles like pineapple weed, turkey tail mushrooms and native species like wild licorice roots that you can find in coastal forests and meadows. […]
Nikolai Neun-Hornick
Nikolai Neun-Hornick Nikolai Neun-Hornick – 2022 Graduate of the UBC Farm Practicum Job Title Farm Manager What is your occupation? Mixed vegetable and flower farmer What path did you take after your practicum to arrive at your current occupation? After the practicum, I collaborated with four of my fellow practicum students to rent 0.4 acres […]
Introduced bumble bee species thrives, causing concern about native pollinators in Lower Mainland
Introduced bumble bee species thrives, causing concern about native pollinators in Lower Mainland October 8, 2024 Recent research from UBC’s Plant-Pollinator and Global Change (PPGC) Lab revealed notable decreases in the local western bumble bee population, with a non-native species dominating the area. The common eastern bumble bee — or Bombus impatiens — was first […]
‘So much mental load’: Mothers speak about school lunches
‘So much mental load’: Mothers speak about school lunches September 11, 2024 CSFS Associate and land and food systems professor Dr. Jennifer Black and alum Seri Niimi-Burch wrote about their study on mothers’ experiences with packing school lunches. “These mothers taught us about the complex physical, mental and emotional work needed to provide a “good” […]