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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sound Technology Reaches New Pitch For BC Pests
With damage to vineyards and tree fruits estimated at over four million annually, growers in the Okanagan-Similkameen have long sought a solution to the problem [...]
Buy BC Helps Local Company Harness Flour Power
Anita’s Organic Mill is out to inspire and connect British Columbians through the love of baking. And thanks to their recent Buy BC project, the [...]
Nanaimo Students Discover the Bees Needs
It’s been a busy summer for Morgan Creek Farm as they embarked on their bee education and planting project! Together with local students, the Nanaimo [...]
Pesticide-Free Alternatives to Combatting Persistent Greenhouse Pests
Persistent greenhouse pests will soon be a thing of the past if Menno Koehoorn has his way. The CEO of TechMist Spray Solutions has been [...]
Student Outreach Initiative Builds Urban Bee Habitat
There are close to 3,000 farms and hundreds of community gardens in Metro Vancouver that rely on native bees for food crop yield and quality. [...]
