Posted by Kristen Nammour on May 11, 2016
Name? Emily Jubenvill, Enderberry Farm Where do you farm? Enderby, BC What do you farm? Mixed veggies, berries, laying hens, and a small heard of dairy goats. What type of business structure is your farm? Currently we are a partnership, but we hope to become a cooperative! What is your land tenure? Are there special relationships
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on May 8, 2016
Name? Laticia Chapman Where do you farm? Tarry’s, between Nelson and Castlegar, BC What do you farm? Our family farm produces orchard fruit, flowers, & berries. What type of business structure is your farm? Sharecropping. What is your land tenure? Are there special relationships that allow for this? My parents are the landowners, and fellow farmers. How did you
...Continue reading →Posted by Moss Dance on April 30, 2016
People in the Comox Valley are eager to buy more locally-grown farm products. On Saturday May 14 from 1-5 PM, the Cumberland Community Schools Society is hosting a Growing for Market Workshop. Participants will learn how to run a profitable business growing fresh vegetables without a lot of land or expensive equipment. When: Saturday May
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on April 15, 2016
Hi my name is Emma and together with my partner Scott, we operate Bent Plow Farm. Where do you farm? We were farming in Eastern Ontario for the past three years, but now we find ourselves on new land in Nelson BC. What do you farm? We have been farming vegetables on a one acre
...Continue reading →Posted by Alyssa Belter on April 13, 2016
Names? Alyssa Belter & David Tanner Where do you farm? Plenty Wild Farms, Pemberton, B.C. What do you farm? Currently our focus is on growing a wide variety of certified organic vegetables. We also raise a small number of weaner pigs each year and have started a flock of sheep. What type of business structure is your
...Continue reading →Posted by Moss Dance on April 11, 2016
“It is an understatement to say that farmland in Metro Vancouver is expensive and that these high prices are a significant challenge to developing a more resilient, self-reliant local food system.” Vancity’s has recently released a report, “Home on the Range: Cost pressures and the price of farmland in Metro Vancouver” that outlines some of the key challenges for
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on April 11, 2016
Dan Barber was on stage and started telling a story about foie gras. Normally geese are force fed corn but at this farm that Dan had visited in Spain the experience was completely different. He told a beautiful story about how the geese were given all the food they wanted which fattened their livers and
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on April 1, 2016
Are you in the pre-planning stage of starting a food business, or have an established business whose growth you want to kick-start? Community Futures of Central Kootenays, Found Tree Product Design & Partners for Growth Advisory Services is proud to be presenting another Agri-Food Business Planning Workshop! WHEN: April 12 -13, 2016; 8:30AM-4:30PM WHERE: Community Futures of
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on February 29, 2016
Name, Farm, Location? Russell Heitzmann and Calliope Gazetas, Umbella Farm, Courtenay BC What were your goals for this season and how did you work to achieve those? We had a financial goal that we set of gross sales just shy of $30,000. At the beginning of the season we said that our goal was ending
...Continue reading →Posted by Kristen Nammour on February 9, 2016
Name, Farm, Location? We’re Tristan & Aubyn Banwell. As perhaps you’ve heard, we are located upon magnificent Spray Creek Ranch — in the rainshadow of the Coast Mountains, along the Mighty Fraser, in the Upper St’at’imc Territory, 15 km south of Lillooet, BC. What were your goals for this season and how did you work
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