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Cob Stompin’ Campout: A Cob House Workshop.  August 21-24 Cob is one of the most ancient, most accessible, and most sustainable building techniques on the planet.  Using locally available materials, basic tools and skills that anyone can learn, we can build our own homes that are beautiful, comfortable, and enduring. This four-day workshop will introduce

The Robson and Canoe Valleys are a hidden treasure – sparesly populated by people, but full of spectacular mountain vistas and fertile river valleys. When new and young farmers contact us at Beyond the Market looking for affordable farmland opportunities in the north, we often point them in this direction. One of our local farmers

WHAT’S WEED DATING?!? Think speed dating for gardener, farmer and foodie types. If you’re single or wanting to meet new friends and like-minded folks, there’s nothing like hoeing a row to find out what someone is all about. Join us for a farm tour and get inspired by this beautiful heritage farm! To tell all

What: Young agrarians everywhere, gather with us for a true taste of the Kootenays… pizza, wood-fired in a collaboratively-designed, collectively-built, decidedly beautiful cob rocket stove on a permaculture smallholding nestled in the Slocan Valley! When:  Thursday, August 7th, from 5:30pm on Where: Tricycle Acres, Winlaw, Kootenays, BC What to bring: Pizza toppings and a salad or

Come to picturesque Turtle Valley and checkout Ranfurly Farm. A mixed family farm with pasture raised poultry, a market garden, sheep, cattle, and farmers with five to forty-five years of farming experience. We freerange our pastured poultry in rotation behind our cattle and sheep, and have a 2-acre market garden with a moveable greenhouse. Monday,

We’re thrilled to be working with young farmer Ayla Fenton from Ontario. Ayla is coordinating a Young Agrarians mixer in her area fall 2014. For more info on the event – check out this blog post: Young Agrarians Eastern Ontario Mixer This profile first appeared on the National Farmers Union blog. Name: Ayla Fenton Age: 24 Farm name: Manager at

Dan Kretschmar is a young farmer and member of the National Farmers Union. Dan attended the Young Agrarians Vancouver Island Mixer in March 2014. Dan is organizing the first Young Agrarians Mixer in Ontario October 18-19th! The mixer will feature a day-long workshop with rockstar, six-figure, small-lot farmer Jean-Martin Fortier. Name: Dan Kretschmar Age: 29 Farm name: Grenville

Willow Springs Organic Farm is tucked at the far south end of the Salmo Valley, in a part of the Kootenays called Pend D’Oreille.  At Willow Springs, Willy and his sweetheart Les grow food for their community year-round, off-grid.  They manage a full market garden and keep animals, including horses.  The farm is a place

Comox, BC:  Join us for a Sunday afternoon – Monday morning hangout, field tour, and party with the Birds and the Beans at one of the most beautiful farms in Comox. DATE & TIME: Sunday, July 27 @ 2:30 – Monday, July 28 @ 12:00pm DETAILS & WHAT TO BRING: You might have guessed already

Photos and text exerpt by Audra Mulkern. Audra Mulkern is a cook, writer and photographer.  Audra writes and photographs “The Female Farmer Project” – a chronicle of in-depth stories about the rise of women working in agriculture around the world.  The Female Farmer Project has garnered national recognition, and has been featured in several magazines. Visit Audra’s website to learn more: audramulkern.com.