Posted on August 3, 2014
Farmers on 57th is a half-acre mixed vegetable urban farm located at Cambie and 57th. Katie Selbee, Susheela Kundargi, and Reta Morris are three UBC Farm practicum graduates who together run the farm’s vegetable CSA program. Date/Time: Sunday, August 31st, 5pm Location: Cambie and 57th Ave, Vancouver (on the grounds of the George Pearson Center)
...Continue reading →Posted on July 13, 2014
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
...Continue reading →Posted on July 12, 2014
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
...Continue reading →Posted on July 11, 2014
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,
...Continue reading →Posted on July 2, 2014
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
...Continue reading →Posted on July 2, 2014
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
...Continue reading →Posted on July 1, 2014
Join us on Sunday, July 20th in Mara, BC at Wild Flight Farm! This will be Wild Flight’s 2nd year hosting a young agrarians event on their farm. Wild Flight mentors and employees many new farmers in training annually. We are grateful for their farm and the work they do. Farm Tour: 3pm Farm Games
...Continue reading →Posted on June 30, 2014
Chuckleberry is a commercial organic farm and an intentional community where people practice living in connection with the land and with one another. Its seven acres are home to green buildings, innovative renewable energy technologies, a thriving micro-greens business, and workshops of many kinds. What: The folks at Chuckleberry have received more than 100 new
...Continue reading →Posted on June 24, 2014
Here’s a young agrarian story that will give you hope and remind you what this network is all about… there’s even a role for you to play, so read on! Anyone who made it to the YA Koots Mixer this March will remember the Full Cycle Food Program and the amazing gardening and hot lunch
...Continue reading →Posted on June 23, 2014
Over the last few months our region’s young agrarians have had lots of reasons to connect. From the joys of the YA Koots Mixer and Farm Food Fork gatherings to local community food events, from Seedy Saturdays to the demands of understanding what Bill 24 will mean for our “zone”… all us farmers, foodies, and
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