UBC Farm has spent the last two years conducting research on alternative feeding systems for poultry and improving the economic viability of egg production for small-scale farmers.
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The Chickens Choose – Free Choice Feeding at the UBC Farm
UBC Farm has spent the last two years conducting research on alternative feeding systems for poultry and improving the economic viability of egg production for small-scale farmers.
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Book launch with Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks
Join us on April 4 for a book launch with Nick Saul, author of ‘The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement’
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Passing the Torch
Amy Frye has accepted the role of Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, as Mark Bomford leads the Yale Sustainable Food Project at Yale University.
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Joy of Feeding brings people together to celebrate home-cooked fare
With its goal of strengthening the connections between whole local foods,
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Fresh Roots Urban Farm on the cutting edge of food system education, one schoolyard at a time
Ilana Labow and her Fresh Roots Urban Farm team are taking a close look at the viability of urban farming in Vancouver, both in theory and practice.
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Passionate practicality: Family farming’s deadliest combination
Story by Kate Petrusa Lydia and Rachel Ryall are two sisters who come from a long, unbroken line of farmers on both sides of their family.
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Your Local Food Pedalers gear up to expand local food distribution for Vancouverites
Story by Kate Petrusa Vancouver’s urban population provides an essential customer base to many rural farmers, who readily commute
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The Chickens Choose – Free Choice Feeding at the UBC Farm
Posted by: Jacob Slosberg | April 10, 2013 | no comments
Filed under: Spotlight, Spotlight Archive, What's New? | Tags: chickens, Eggs, Feed, Free-choice, Jacob Slosberg, Organic farming, Research, UBC Farm
Passing the Torch
Posted by: ubcfarm | March 14, 2013 | no comments
Amy Frye has accepted the role of Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, as Mark Bomford leads the Yale Sustainable Food Project at Yale University.
Filed under: Spotlight, Spotlight Archive, What's New? | Tags: amy frye, mark bomford, news
Joy of Feeding brings people together to celebrate home-cooked fare
Posted by: anelyse | June 18, 2012 | no comments
With its goal of strengthening the connections between whole local foods,
Filed under: Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: culture, home cooking, Joy of Feeding, Meeru Dhalwala, Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, Vancity, Vij's
Fresh Roots Urban Farm on the cutting edge of food system education, one schoolyard at a time
Posted by: anelyse | May 6, 2012 | 4 comments
Ilana Labow and her Fresh Roots Urban Farm team are taking a close look at the viability of urban farming in Vancouver, both in theory and practice.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: Fresh Roots Urban Farm, Gray Orion, growing farmers, Growing Power, Ilana Labow, Queen Alexandra Elementary School, Urban Farming, Vancity
Passionate practicality: Family farming’s deadliest combination
Posted by: anelyse | April 27, 2012 | 2 comments
Story by Kate Petrusa Lydia and Rachel Ryall are two sisters who come from a long, unbroken line of farmers on both sides of their family.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: Cropthorne Farm, family farming, growing farmers, Lydia Ryall, Rachel Ryall
Your Local Food Pedalers gear up to expand local food distribution for Vancouverites
Posted by: ubcfarm | April 25, 2012 | 1 comment
Story by Kate Petrusa Vancouver’s urban population provides an essential customer base to many rural farmers, who readily commute
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: bike delivery, Chris Thoreau, Elite Bikes, Gavin Wright, growing farmers, local food distribution, Vancouver Farmers Markets, Your Local Food Pedalers
Joy of Feeding 2012: Sharing food as a way of fostering deeper cross-cultural connections
Posted by: anelyse | April 21, 2012 | 6 comments
In preparation for the launch of this year’s Joy of Feeding, Meeru Dhalwala
Filed under: Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: cross-cultural connections, home cooking, Joy of Feeding, Meeru Dhalwala, traditional foods
Bitterness brewing at UBC Farm: The first seasonal hopyard harvest
Posted by: scott | April 20, 2012 | 2 comments
Despite hops’ vital role in beer and the rich history of hop farming in the Fraser
Filed under: Spotlight, Spotlight Archive, Student Projects | Tags: Agroecology, Brewing, Hops, Hopyard, Humulus lupulus, Scott Bell, UBC Brewing Club
From law school to the land: One story of a “professional” farmer
Posted by: ubcfarm | April 18, 2012 | 2 comments
Story by Kate Petrusa Before starting his own farm, Andrew Arkesteyn-Vogler completed law school.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: Andrew Arksteyn-Vogler, Crisp Farm, Fraser Common Farm, growing farmers, Joel Salatin, young farmers
The chicken or the egg… and the pig? Animal integration in a small-scale farm system
Posted by: ubcfarm | April 18, 2012 | 4 comments
Story by Kate Petrusa I first visited Rootdown Organic Farm in June 2010, one month after the farm team took possession of their new land.
Filed under: Growing Farmers, Spotlight, Spotlight Archive | Tags: Elymus repens, growing farmers, livestock integration, Rootdown Organic Farm, rotational grazing, Sarah McMillan, Simone MacIsaac, Tamworth pigs, young farmers
Announcements
- Check out the Conscious Design Collective Permaculture Design Certification Course @ UBC Farm Aug 17 - Sep 8! http://t.co/8TQl0cHlmg
- Market season is almost here! Our Farm Market Assistant Rosalind trains volunteers on how to run our bustling markets http://t.co/zmZTIlcGUg
