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Reporting to the Executive Director, the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Manager will work in collaboration with Klinse-za Cultural Society and Amisk Farm to oversee the day-to-day operations of the agricultural training program (I-FEAST). The program manager will also coordinate community programming centred around Indigenous food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. Amisk Farm is an Indigenous-owned and

Young Agrarians is excited for a third work party at Ntamtqen Community Garden and Food Hub -formerly the Lower Similkameen Community Food Hub, Farm and Garden! Come out to lend a hand with spring farm work and building infrastructure to grow Indigenous food sovereignty. Everyone is welcome to attend. There are a variety of tasks

Are you passionate about regenerative agriculture, livestock care, and land stewardship? Hart Ranches in Hanna, Alberta, is offering a unique apprenticeship where you can gain hands-on experience on a 7,000-acre ranch while working alongside skilled mentors. About the Farm Hart Ranches is focused on regenerative ranching and conservation. Mike and Laura Hart, the ranch owners,

ABOUT OKANAGAN HONEY CO Our farm is a bee breeding and honey producing farm in the Okanagan Valley. We raise and mate queen honey bees and spring nuclei for sale to various regions in BC and Alberta. We also produce a beautiful Okanagan wildflower honey each year in the later summer. The honey bee colonies

This is a guest blog post from Melanie Walker of Many Microbes Soil Lab located on the swiya of the shíshálh people. Melanie shares her experience taking kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation workshops. We recommend that all farmers take this essential training! As I joined the first session of the kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth workshop,

Interested in Indigenous Food Sovereignty (IFS) in BC? This discussion paper by Tea Creek covers the agrarian heritage of First Nations, the importance of IFS and how to scale it up, and showcases 13 Indigenous food projects across the province.  Supporting IFS benefits everyone by improving environmental, social, and economic outcomes, as well as fulfilling

This blog post is a contribution from Mary Modeste, a participant of Tea Creek’s farming program. “My name us Mary Modeste. I had the opportunity to go up to Kitwanga, BC to experience and learn new tools at Tea Creek. As part of the program this summer, we travelled for a few days to visit

“This was our grocery store,” says Jared Qwustenuxun Williams, traditional foods champion and chef, educator, and consultant at Qwustenuxun Consulting, gesturing to the estuary land we are standing on. This area where the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) River meets the sea was an incredibly productive food source. It provided food and medicine in such abundance that it

Ntamtqen Community Garden & Food Hub is proudly hosting a screening of the Tea Creek documentary. Doors open at 5:00 with refreshments. The screening begins at 6:00 with a Q&A to follow with Jacob Beaton, Dixon Terbasket, and others to be announced. Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate

Content warning: This post includes mentions of genocide and the residential school system. Today on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, our hearts go out to the survivors of residential schools, and we remember the children who did not make it home. We recognize the intergenerational impacts that these schools and the colonial policies