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Farming in British Columbia

Interviews with BC-based farmers, food processors, academics and others who contribute to food production in BC in one way or another.

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01:03:28

Checking in on the BC Food Hub Network

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/03/19

In 2019 BC's Ministry of Agriculture & Food launched the BC Food Hub Network, a major component of which was significant funding for new food hubs in the province. This episode, a couple of conversations with people for whom Life Is Food Hubs; the rest being Just Details. Sarah-Patricia Breen is the BC Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development at Selkirk Innovates, the applied research department of Selkirk College.Lindsay Harris and Kent Fawcett work for the Kamloops Food Policy

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18:54

BONUS: Are you violating The Scheme? More on the...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/03/07

Herein: part of my conversation with Jerome Lenkeek, Senior Policy & Market Analyst with the BC Vegetable Marketing Commission, who gave me an interview to fill in some gaps that Lillian Pusch and I didn't cover in our conversation in episode 28. In this segment of our conversation, Jerome explains how exemptions work within BC's Vegetable Scheme, which is kind of cool name for the regulatory system that oversees the orderly marketing of veggies in BC.I really wanted to include this segment

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58:43

A Tariff-Adjacent Conversation About BC's Veggie...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/03/05

My guest today is Lillian Posch, General Manager of Okanagan Grown Produce Ltd., a veggie marketing agency located in Vernon. Marketing agencies like OGP play an important role in the orderly marketing of BC Vegetables. For those unfamiliar with the term, Orderly Marketing is the weaker yet earnest cousin of Supply Management. And in BC, it's the term we use to describe a legislated regulatory scheme that organizes the production of a whole bunch of vegetable crops. All of which is overseen by the

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48:40

Setting the Peace on Fire on Purpose

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/02/19

Today on the show, a tip from a listener takes me up to Northern BC, where some farmers and their co-conspirators are playing with fire! My guest is rangeland agrologist Nadia Mori, the coordinator of the Peace River Forage Association. She joined me to talk about her role as the coordinator of the Peace River Forage Association and a couple of its current projects. One explores the potential benefits of prescribed burning of pasture lands; the other gives farmers the tools and knowledge to fight

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01:05:03

Farmers Appraise their Farmers Markets

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/02/05

Today on the podcast, a return to a topic that, if download numbers are any indication, many of you are interested in. Way back in episode six of the show I released an episode I titled The Current State of BC’s Farmers Markets. It featured an interview with the board chair of the BC Association of Farmers Markets. And Wylie and I did talk about the state of BC’s Farmer’s Markets in that episode, but given its popularity in my podcast feed, I decided I’d like to take another crack at this subject,

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38:41

A Minister's Mandate (Or: Lana's Letter)

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/01/22

Today on the show, BC’s recently re-elected premier David Eby finally issued mandate letters for his new cabinet, so I asked a politically-minded farmer to join me to talk about what’s contained in the one for our brand new but also returning Minister of Agriculture and Food, Lana Popham.Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board? Send a voice memo (preferred!) or written words to Jordan:250 767 6636

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36:37

BONUS: GAP Certification: A Barrier & an Opportunity

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/01/17

Hey everyone! This is Jordan with some bonus listening for you. As you may know, I’m the producer and host of The Organic BC Podcast, and over there, I’ve been busy producing a miniseries about whether GAP certification is a viable option for small-scale farmers who want to gain, preserve, or expand access to wholesale marketing channels. You’re about to hear episode one of that series, exactly as it dropped on The Organic BC podcast feed. If you like it, you can go find the organic BC podcast and

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33:08

The Queen Bee (Breeder) of Spallumcheen

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/01/08

This episode, Emily Huxter of Wild Antho (and also episode one of this podcast) is back. The first time around, I had too much good tape to work with so I omitted this chunk of our conversation, which is about the practice and business of breeding & selling queen bees. I learned a lot about bee love-making, and now you will, too. Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board? Send a voice memo (preferred!) or written words

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07:31

2024 Christmas Spectacular!

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/12/25

Many of you must have been very good this year, because for this episode, our colleague Tristan Banwell of Spray Creek Ranch wrote something special for all of us! The score used underneath Tristan's piece is royalty free music from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com , specifically: Twas the Night Before Christmas by Steve Oxen.Vanessa Samur wrote the intro/outro music for the show. I gave her a smooch for her trouble.

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50:55

Emergent Ag Pests and How We Repond

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/12/12

In this episode, I hope to give you a sense of how our agricultural community responds to emergent agricultural pests, with a focus on the activities of BC’s Ministry of agriculture. Later on in the episode, you’re going to hear a conversation I just recorded with Susanna Acheompong, an extension entomologist with the BC Ministry of Agriculture based in Kelowna. Susanna spends a lot of her time focused on the detection, monitoring, impact, and management of emergent agricultural pests in the

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16:03

An Argument For Cleaning While You Cook

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/11/28

This episode features a score called Italian Opera by Steve Oxen with an open source license.

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55:14

Why don't BC's farmers cooperate more?

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/11/13

This episode: when my guest was an urban farmer in Vancouver in the 2010s, she co-founded a marketing co-operative with her colleagues to streamline her produce sales. Intrigued by the problem-solving potential of cooperative business structures, she went on to obtain her Masters degree--and then her PhD--studying farming cooperatives in Japan. Emi Do currently works for Young Agrarians as its co-op coordinator. She joined me for a conversation about growing produce in Vancouver backyards, her

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01:00:01

Accessing Farmland When It's Too Damned Expensive

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/10/23

This episode, a couple of conversations inspired by an invitation I received to moderate a panel on Farmland Accessibility at the Columbia Basin Food & Buyers Expo in Nakusp later this week. In this episode, you’re going to hear from two of the three panelists who’ll be joining me in Nakusp to talk about innovative strategies for accessing farmland. Much of BC’s farmland is the most expensive in Canada by a longshot, and thus the outright purchase of land for farming is prohibitive for many

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55:47

The Green Party's Vision for Ag in BC

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/10/09

This ep: FARMERS VOTE 2024! I invited the three major parties to provide a 2024 BC Election candidate to talk to me about agricultural policy; herein, a conversation with the BC Green Party's candidate for Courtenay-Comox, Arzeena Hamir, about the party's vision for Agriculture in BC. Teaser: they'd manage water differently and consider a Basic Income Guarantee for qualified farmers. After that, a quick rebuttal from the conservatives and ndp.

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55:25

Sisters-in-Laudable Farming Careers: Dairy & Veggies...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/09/25

This ep: A long-ranging coversation with four owners of two farms that sit side-by-side in Mara: Louise Bruns and her husband, Hermann, own Wild Flight Veggie Farm. Across the road is Hamberlin Holsteins, owned by Daniela Bruns and her husband, Quentin. Daniela, Louise, Quentin and Hermann sat down with me to talk about how each operation came to be, how their upbringings influenced the farms they would eventually run, intergenerational conflict over competing farming philosophies, and a lot

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40:43

BONUS: BCTF situation was dire for many years, argues...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/09/08

In this bonus episode of the podcast, farmer, co-op expert and newly minted University of the Fraser Valley faculty member Chris Bodnar describes a BC Tree Fruits Cooperative that was beset with internal problems in the years leading up to BCTF's recent, sudden closure in late July. Chris published a piece on Linkedin that delves deeper than we do. It's good. Read it here.

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01:04:36

How's Your Season Going?

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/09/04

In which I cold-call a bunch of farmers to learn how everyone's doing this year.Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board? Send a voice memo (preferred!) or written words to Jordan:250 767 6636 podcast@farminginbc.ca

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29:17

BONUS: The Apple Sector Leading up to BCTF Closure

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/08/21

As promised last episodes, here are snippets of a few interviews I conducted a couple of years ago that provide some extra insight into the BC Tree Fruits Closure that has just thrown a wrenth into the gears of this year's apple harvest.

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46:32

BCTF Closure...it's rough

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/08/21

The BC Tree Fruits Co-Op announced it's immediate closure on July 25th. This shocked the apple sector, and hit the co-op's 300+ members pretty hard. Herein: a summary of the story so far, and an interview with a co-op member who's super pissed about this. She explains why the closure is such a big deal in terms of the impact it will have on apple growers for this year's harvest. Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board

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58:50

The Burkholders Bros: Sweet Corn in Chase

Farming in British Columbia ·

2024/08/07

This time on the podcast, a conversation with Vincent and Lewis Burkholder, a pair of brothers who worked summers for the local sweet corn baron as teenagers and ended up taking over his operation, sort of.I'm referring, of course, to The Burkholder Bros Corn Farm, a business that thwarted my effort to nab the URL I wanted in order to promote a new sport I invented where contestants race to try to catch an ear of corn dangled on a stick mounted to a 2009 Honda Fit.I was interested to talk to Vincent

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