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This year, Kanver Brares will be tending his own fruit trees in the Similkameen Valley — a dream he has had since childhood — thanks to a budding provincial program matching new farmers with land.
A recent graduate of UBC, Amy Norgaard has a master’s in soil science with a specialization in organic vegetable production and worked with roughly 20 organic farms in B.C. to help them meet and balance their environmental and production goals.
Temporary foreign workers, most of them from Mexico, are essential to B.C.'s $300-million greenhouse vegetable industry, with about 500 usually coming to work in the province each year.
Tristan Jagger, founder of Vancouver Food Runners, can’t believe how fast the group — which uses volunteers and an app to get donations to charities — has grown.
Colin Dring said he was surprised by the level of food insecurity in his area, and taken aback by how “racialized and class-based some of the responses were to the issue of hunger.”
Yes, say German researchers who examined the environmental cost of producing meat, dairy and vegetables in both organic and industrial agricultural systems.
Effective Dec. 27, food delivery service providers in B.C. must not charge a restaurant more than 15 per cent of the total cost of the customer order, before taxes, for delivery services.
The shift in demand could change the way the birds are raised for years to come, with the industry expecting it will need to adapt by slaughtering turkeys earlier.
The province is investing $90,000 in a new raspberry replanting program to help growers increase their acreage planted with varieties suitable for fresh and individually quick-frozen markets.