Dec 9, 2025: Online – Communication Skills for Land Sharing

Join us online on December 9th to learn how to communicate effectively while sharing land!

Communication can make or break a land sharing relationship: good communication can build community and create mutually-beneficial arrangements, while poor communication can cause an agreement to fall apart.

In this webinar, Nyree Marsh (Columbia Basin Land Matcher), and Haley Schonhofer (Okanagan-Thompson Land Matcher) will explain what ‘good communication’ means and how you can implement it while sharing land. You’ll learn how to: practice self-awareness, listen effectively, raise and discuss issues, and move towards solutions. These skills are important to creating and sustaining land sharing relationships, and are useful in other areas of life too. You’ll get to practice and see these skills demonstrated in real time, and there will be time for Q&A with the B.C. Land Matching Program team, so bring your questions!

You will leave this webinar prepared to communicate effectively in day-to-day life, during initial lease negotiations and land sharing, and in situations where conflict may arise.

REGISTER: Please RSVP on Eventbrite:

DATE: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 • 7-8:30 pm PT

LOCATION: Online on Indigenous territories across what is today known as Canada. Join us from the comfort of your couch, office, tractor, compost heap – wherever you find yourself able to tune in! Zoom link will be sent out after registration.

ACCESSIBILITY: Closed captioning will be available for this webinar. The captions can be automatically translated in real time to 35 different languages. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at bclmp@youngagrarians.org if you have any questions regarding accessibility or need support joining the webinar.

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GOT LAND? WANT LAND?

Through the B.C. Land Matching Program, Young Agrarians offers support to farmers looking for land for their farm business, and landholders looking for farmers to farm their land. We’ve made more than 417 matches on over 13,127 acres to date!

Are you on the Young Agrarians UMAP? List your land or future farm dream today! You just might find a farmer who can turn your vacant field into a productive farm, or a landholder who has the ideal piece of land for you.

To explore more land access resources, visit youngagrarians.org/tools/land.

The B.C. Land Matching Program is funded by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative, with additional support from Bullitt Foundation, Columbia Basin Trust, Cowichan Valley Regional District and the Real Estate Foundation of BC.