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Young Agrarians is looking for an event coordinator to organize our next series of farm loving events in the Kootenays! Please share and help us find the right person for the job. Details below: BC Young Agrarians Young Agrarians (YA), a partnership with FarmFolk CityFolk, is focused on growing the next generation of ecological farmers

APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITY  10 Acres Farm, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, BC (22 km from Victoria) Position: Farm Apprentice Overview: 10 Acres farm is seeking two highly motivated, positive, hardy apprentices to help our farm team with all aspects of field-to-table food raising on this unique restaurant-owned, non-certified organic farm. The Farm: 10 Acres Farm is (surprise!)

YA’er Sara Dent interviewed 35-year old Quebec farmer Jean-Martin Fortier. Jean-Martin is well known for his ecologically productive method of farming that has enabled him, and his partner, Maude Helene Desroches to run a very successful market farm. Jean-Martin is launching the English version of his book Le Jardinier Maraicher (The Market Gardener) January 2014, thanks

Fresh City seeking Farm Manager Fresh City is a city farm based in 6 acres of land in Toronto.  Our pioneering for-profit model brings food makers and eaters closer together than they have been in several generations.  Fresh City promotes local food in two main ways: (1) creating a market for and providing access to

Join us December 5th at 5pm at Foodshare in Toronto! Gather with urban farmers of all types and backgrounds. The evening will start with a potluck, ala Young Agrarian and Greenhorns style, and finish with a guided discussion about what we as urban farmers face, and what our visions, desires and needs are. We strive for

Seeking farmers 55 years of age and younger who have farmed along northern BC’s Highway 16 corridor for 10 years or less to participate in research on farmers’ motivations. UNBC graduate student, Mike Dewar is conducting research on the motivations and success of new and young farmers and ranchers in Northern BC’s Highway 16 Corridor. 

Mapping resources for new entrants into sustainable agriculture We are proud to  launch our UMap, an online farmer resource map created for the Young Agrarians community. The first of it’s kind in Canada, the resource map pulls together 13 different search categories of information into one mapping platform with a focus on certified or uncertified

Garry and Wendy Lowe of Twin Meadows Organics have long been champions of environmentally responsible and financially sustainable farming. Their highly successful operation near McBride, BC has served as model for farming in the north central interior – a model they are eager and willing to share with the next generation of farmers. Garry and

Are you a farmer looking for land? Are you a landowner looking for farmers? You’re invited to a Land Linking Workshop and Potluck! Join us Saturday, November 23rd from 2pm – 6pm in Cowichan, BC for a workshop on the nuts and bolts of land linking. During the workshop, we’ll network, review legal frameworks for

Young Agrarians & Kootenay Farm School Present: Are you a farmer looking for land? Are you a landowner looking for farmers? You’re invited to a Land Linking Workshop and Potluck! Join us Saturday, November 16th from 2pm – 6pm in Creston, BC for a workshop on the nuts and bolts of land linking. If lucky,