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Click here to check out photos from this fabulous day of new and young farmers and friends gathering from across the Okanagan!  Celebrate winter with a young farmer social in Kelowna, BC! We’re bringing together as many beginning and young(ish) farmers, as well as friends and foodies for a day of workshops and networking. Join

Join Certified Organic Association of BC in Vernon for their next annual conference focusing on Resilience! Sessions on water harvesting and resilient/restorative agriculture are pertinent given extreme temperatures and water shortages in BC this season. There will also be sessions on the certification process, seed saving (beginner and advanced presentations), pest management, stories from trailblazers in the

We begin the day sleepy-eyed, yawning, and low-energy, having just rolled out of bed and biked to the fields. Throughout the day spent in the open air, we gain strength and energy, doing work that requires using our muscles and minds equally. We finish around 5:30 PM feeling exhausted and accomplished, arriving home with dirty hands

Organization: Glorious Organics Co-operative Location: Aldergrove, B.C About: For the past 30 years Glorious Organics Co-op has been farming up to 7 of 20 acres owned by Fraser Common Farm Co-op. Jointly we consider ourselves a Community Farm – a place where residents live and work collaboratively, “village- style”, each contributing to the well being of the whole,

Do you know what’s making money on your farm? Are you thinking about trying a new marketing strategy or crop? Are you asking yourself if you can farm the way you want – and be financially viable? FarmStart’s Farm Viability Series is a chance to dig deeper into financial tools for evaluating and improving your

An exciting new post-secondary certification program is launching in BC at the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Williams Lake campus this coming January, and there couldn’t be a better time or place. The TRU Applied Sustainable Ranching (ASUR) program is the first of its kind in British Columbia, and located in the oldest ranching region in Canada – the

Article written by Olivier Labrie I remember desperately looking to find a way to get my hands in rich organic soil during a six month search for any type of apprenticeship opportunity that involved organic farming. That was almost three years ago. At the time, I was working on my second bachelor’s degree in Ecological

Is marine farming in your future?  The Clayoquot Oyster Festival offers a chance to visit  West Coast oyster farming sites and learn about oyster production and opportunities in the industry. Boats depart from beautiful Tofino, BC on Saturday, November 21st for a 1.5 hour interpretive tour. Find out more about the Clayoquot Oyster Festival here, and book

Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Help shape the future of agricultural resilience in the Okanagan by joining the BC Agriculture and Climate Action Initiative for this two-part workshop series. It’s been quite the year! With a low snowpack, an early start to the growing season, spring hail storms, a summer of record breaking temperatures, drought, water

Story by Eva Verbeeck This summer Spencer MacDonald and I worked and lived together with young farmers. All of them are first generation young farmers on small scale organic farms. Some of the farmers went straight from college to farming and growing food. I used to find this a strange choice but my perspective has