Join Darcy Smith, YA’s BC Land Matching Program Manager, and Pascale Schittecatte, YA’s Okanagan Land Matcher, to learn the tools for effective land sharing negotiations.
Learn about communication styles, compromising with integrity and maximizing mutual benefit for both farmers and landholders. This session will feature easy-to-adopt tips for having great collaborative conversations so you can work together to figure out the terms of your land sharing relationship.
We will emphasize communication tools that, when used effectively, can ensure longevity, stability and respect in your land-sharing relationship. Discover how to assess your own and others’ communication styles and build a toolbox of practical strategies for addressing the needs of multiple parties with positive outcomes.
You will leave this webinar with communication skills for the initial lease negotiations, day-to-day land sharing relationship upkeep and for the unforeseen transitions that may come down the line.
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | 7-8:30 PM PST
Location: Online on Indigenous territories across what is today known as B.C. Join us from the comfort of your couch, office, tractor, compost heap – wherever you find yourself able to tune in!
REGISTER: Please RSVP on Eventbrite.
Feature photo courtesy of Jete Devisser, Urban Fig Photography
About Darcy:
Darcy Smith has spent the last decade-plus working to support farmers and food systems. She lives and works on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories. As the first Young Agrarians Land Matcher in B.C. and now as BCLMP program manager, she’s worked with many new entrants, seasoned farmers and farmland holders across the province, who all share a vision to help the next generation of farmers get on the land and to see the land producing food into the future. Darcy also edits the BC Organic Grower, a quarterly magazine showcasing organic farming across B.C.
About Pascale:
Originally from Gabriola Island, Pascale Schittecatte spent her earliest years climbing hay bales and feeding bottle calves on Somerset Farm. After many years spent living in cities large and small, Pascale found her way back to farming through food and wine. Prior to joining the B.C. Land Matching Team, she worked as a winemaker and farm hand in the UK and the Okanagan. Pascale applies her farming knowledge, as well as her skills in non-profit management, to support farmers and landholders in the Thompson-Okanagan.
2024 ONLINE LAND ACCESS EVENTS
We are offering a series of online land access workshops this winter, covering everything from Indigenous food sovereignty to land sharing and leases to marketing for farmers. Make sure you’re signed up for our newsletter so you don’t miss future workshops!
- Jan 31, 2024: ONLINE – Indigenous Food Sovereignty Panel – Land Back & Land Access – 6-8 PST
- Feb 7, 2024: ONLINE – Land Leasing 101 – 7-8:30 PST
- Feb 21, 2024: ONLINE – How to Market a New Farm with Kendall Ballantine – 8-8:30 PST
Questions about this event, or about the B.C. Land Matching Program? Reach out to our BCLMP Coordinator, Kat, at bclmp@youngagrarians.org.
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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 307 matches on over 12,084 acres to date!
Are you on the Young Agrarians U-MAP? 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!
For more info about our land access resources, visit the YA Land page!
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 Columbia Basin Trust, Bullitt Foundation, Cowichan Valley Regional District, and the Real Estate Foundation of BC.