Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-operative Prepares for a Wetland
The Glen Valley Organic Farm in Abbotsford, run by the Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-operative (GVOFC), sits on 50-acres of [...]
Agritech Ramp-Up Wraps Up
The Agritech Ramp-Up Pilot Program (Ramp-Up), which began in late 2021, wrapped up at the end of September after a successful year. The program [...]
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 [...]
Biopod Paves Way for Greenhouse Innovation
There’s been a lot of buzz over the Surrey BioPod Project recently and with good reason—the joint initiative between the University of Fraser Valley (UFV), [...]
Big D’S Sees Big Returns
The pumpkins are coming! And Daniel and Justine Ludwig, owners of Big D’s Bees Honey, couldn’t be more excited about this season’s Pumpkin Fest at [...]
New Technology Sheds New Light on BC Crops
While a love of local has come to define BC culture, not all British Columbians can fully embrace the locavore movement. With limited sunlight in [...]
Building Local in the Thompson-Shuswap
While the Thompson-Shuswap’s favourable climate, promising land, and diversity of production points to agriculture as a potentially major player in the local economy, regional farming [...]
Looking for a Silver Bullet for Silver Scurf
Silver scurf is a major concern for potato growers in the Lower Mainland. The fungus infects potatoes before harvest, and once they are harvested and [...]
BC Corn Hybrid Trials Yield Results
For farmers and ranchers in BC, choosing the best performing corn varieties for silage can be a challenge. Global seed companies develop hundreds of new [...]
