2021 Marks a Milestone for IAF
2021 is a big year for IAF. We are celebrating our 25th year! https://youtu.be/g9ViNEE9k6g The entire IAF Team is so proud to be representing an [...]
Dutch Technology Helps BC Growers Pack a Better Pear
While proudly rooted in history and tradition, the sixth-generation Days family farm is looking forward to the future of tree fruit packing in the Okanagan. [...]
Buy BC Pork Promotion Raises Sales…and Spirits!
With nearly a century of corporate history, veteran pork processor Johnston Packers now serves more than 450 local retailers, butchers and restaurants from its family-run [...]
New BCfresh Brand Brings More BC Veggies to Canadians
While the Covid crisis has halted many industries in their tracks, Brian Faulkner from BCfresh is considering the silver lining in the latest curveball to [...]
IAF Assists Agricultural First Response Efforts
With the needs of BC’s ag sector rapidly evolving in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, IAF has spent the last few months collaborating with [...]
Bee Numbers Blossom on Kootenay Conservation Farm
In the increasingly complex landscape today’s pollinators must navigate, mounting pressures from food and habitat shortages continue to exact a sizeable toll on both domesticated [...]
BC-Made Nutrient Management Tool Offers Dairy Farmers New Solution
With new waste regulations effective under the Agricultural Environmental Management Code of Practice, the need to navigate nutrient management alternatives has become a mobilizing force [...]
Getting Students Through The Farm Gate
A taste of something special awaits shoppers at the UBC Farm’s weekly farmer’s market. In addition to a diversity of local foods at your fingertips, [...]
Meadow Restoration Helps Enhance Forage For Victoria Bees
While managed honey bees play an undeniably valuable role within agriculture, native bees are often the unsung heroes of pollination and food production – not [...]
Taking Action on Climate Change through the BC Agriculture & Food Climate Action Initiative
With climate change front and centre on the international stage, communities across the globe are rallying to address one of the most pressing issues of [...]
US Tradeshow Opens Doors for BC Cherries
We recently caught up with Sutherland S.A. Produce on the heels of their 2019 trade mission to the US. Thanks to Market Development funding under [...]
West Kootenay Schools Abuzz With Observation Hives
The Bee Awareness Society is thrilled to offer a “live learning tool” to local schools in the West Kootenays. Using observation bee hives, the Society [...]
