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We’re just back from Slow Food Internationals 2012 Terra Madre event in Turin, Italy. It was an honour to be there as a representative of Young Agrarians- thanks to the fundraising efforts of Slow Food Vancouver and FarmFolk CityFolk. The global youth food movement is doing good things everywhere. It’s amazing to feel part of

Hey Young Agrarians, this is an invitation to you and your loved ones and friends to come on down and celebrate our second season of troublemaking down in the industrial lowlands of East Van!  Our harvest, however sweet it may be, also coincides with the threat of destruction: the recently resurrected fossilized corpse of the

Young Agrarians is collaborating with Victoria’s  Compost Education Centre for our first Vancouver Island Potluck! CALLING ALL farm folk, rural and urban, foodies and food gardeners, permaculturists and food systems thinkers:) Join us Saturday, October 13th, 2012 Starts: 5:30 pm Potluck: @ 6:30 pm Please bring a dish to share, and things to eat with,

In collaboration with Vancouver Urban Farming Society, Barefoot Farms, Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society and Lulu’s Acres – we’re gathering for a September Harvest Potluck, at the Richmond Incubator Farm! Thursday, September 27th, 2012, tour starts 5:30 pm, potluck 6:30 pm Please bring food to share, plates and cutlery to eat with! Friends and family friendly:) It’s going

We can’t wait! Come check out Doug Zaklan’s 4th generation family farm in Surrey! We’re going to farm tour and potluck on this beautiful piece of land. 5 pm, Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 13278 84th avenue, Surrey, B.C. Contact: theyoungagrarians@gmail.com if you want to carpool:) ABOUT: Since 1928 Zaklan Heritage Farm has been growing quality food through

For part 1 go here One of the oldest challenges facing all communities, but particularly larger cities, is how do we get all the things we need into the community and effectively deal with getting the waste or unwanted byproducts back out of the community? If there is a serious failure to create and regulate

Why do my partner Nick and I want to grow food in cities? Why have we started a business that lenders and investors struggle to understand and for which there are no existing models or precedents for us to draw from as we plan?  And why are we so passionate about this apparently quixotic vision?

I’m Adam. So… conversation starters?  I talk to plants. For half of the world’s population, this is not at all unusual, commonplace, even. And most of us, I think, secretly harbor some kind of fairy-dust eye-of-newt moist-root instinct, as if we want so badly to believe in what seems too irrational to give any heed

Hello, my name is Andrew Heneghan, and I’m a new contributor with the Young Agrarians. I’m originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland later spending a considerable amount of time in Keene, New Hampshire, and Vancouver, British Columbia.  A North American with international tendencies.  I’m excited about Young Agrarians push to promote farming for young people in

Presenting… drum roll… the first Young Agrarians video by Hannah Roessler. Video captured at the BC Food Systems Network 2012 Gathering! Hannah runs an incredible blog project called the Farmer’s Filmanac, a website dedicated to farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing through text, photo and video. I can’t say enough about how awesome Hannah’s website is.  And the