Calling all farmers, landholders, and farm-curious folks! Looking for information or advice about leasing farmland? Come gather with your community for a Q&A session with Columbia Basin Land Matcher, Nyree Marsh!
Join us on Thursday, March 6th to learn how you can access farmland or lease your farmland, with support from the B.C. Land Matching Program. Nyree Marsh, our Columbia Basin Land Matcher, will share information and answer questions about leasing and sharing land, the land matching process and farm transition. Nyree has been farming or working with farmers in the Kootenays since 2005 – she offers a wealth of local farming knowledge, so bring all your questions!
We encourage all landholders to join us, whether you have a well-developed vision for your land or have just started thinking about land sharing. We also welcome all farmers and farmers-to-be, whether you grow fruits or veggies, raise livestock (or bees) or have some other farming project in mind.
Come stop by to learn about land sharing while connecting with your community!
DATE: March 6, 2025 • 6 – 8 pm PST
LOCATION: Sinixt, Secwepemc, Ktunaxa & Syilx Territories. Salmo Valley Youth & Community Centre, 206 Seventh St, Salmo, BC
DIRECTIONS/PARKING/CARPOOLING: The Salmo Valley Youth & Community Centre is located on the corner of Sayward Ave and Seventh St, off Highway 6 in Salmo. Please follow parking directions upon arrival. If you are looking for or can offer a ride to/from the event, you can organize carpooling through the Facebook event. When you arrive, look out for signs directing you to our room.
REGISTER: Please RSVP on Eventbrite.
ACCESSIBILITY: If you have any accessibility needs, please get in touch at nyree@youngagrarians.org.
SHARE: Planning on joining us? Invite your friends and share the event on Facebook!
Questions about this event, or about the B.C. Land Matching Program? Reach out to our Columbia Basin Land Matcher, Nyree, at nyree@youngagrarians.org.
ABOUT NYREE
Nyree is a hands-on business owner with over 20 years of experience in farming. She was raised in the foothills of Alberta, leaving after graduation for coastal BC, where at 21 she leased her first market garden on Salt Spring Island. From there the passion grew with opportunities to establish farm businesses and work with existing farmers within Canada and overseas before settling in the Kootenays in 2005. Nyree’s great joy and interest is in feeding people, she has worked extensively in providing food to her community through subsistence and commercial farming, working as a sous chef in restaurants, and as an artisanal gelato maker in Nelson. She has deep roots in the local farming community, working as a certified organic farmer and as a volunteer with Kootenay Organic Growers Society and executive board member of the Central Kootenay Food Policy Council; she is a familiar face at many farm networking events. In 2020, Nyree joined the Basin Business Advisors Program as the Agriculture Business Advisor and during her time with the BBA, enjoyed working with regional farmers and ranchers on tailored business solutions. Nyree loves applying her skills and knowledge to support farmers and landholders as the Columbia Basin Land Matcher.
STAY IN TOUCH
- Not able to join this event? Visit our Events Page for other Land Linking Workshops around B.C., events in your community, and online events!
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- We welcome cancellations at any time – you can do so through Eventbrite, through the link in your registration confirmation email, or by contacting bclmp@youngagrarians.org. Please let us know if you aren’t able to attend.
If you are interested in hosting an event at your farm and bringing together the farming community in your area, please reach out to bclmp@youngagrarians.org with your idea!
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 362 matches on over 12,688 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 learn more about our land access resources, visit youngagrarians.org/tools/land.
The B.C. Land Matching Program is funded in the Columbia Basin 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 and the Real Estate Foundation of BC.