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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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51:23

Burnout Claims a Veggie Farmer in Buffalo Creek

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/04/01

This time on the podcast: my conversation with Robin Hunt of Big Rock Ranch. Back in 2016, Robin moved from Squamish up to their grandparent’s property near 100 Mile House to start a market garden business and live the truly rural life they’d been craving for years. There was a steep learning curve for Robin and their business partner Johan, but in short order the two established themselves as a fixture at the local farmers market, and the business expanded quickly to include restaurant sales, a CSA

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51:45

A corporation is buying up this BC community's farmland

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/03/18

Today on the show, listener submissions about the permanent time change announcement, and then we head to the central interior, where residents of Dunster, a rural community in the Robson Valley along highway 16 south of McBride, have been grappling with a decline in population that some say is connected to a single corporation having bought up a substantial amount of the farmland there. You’ll hear from two residents of the region who are part of an organized effort to advocate for policy change

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01:02:29

You Got a License for those Potatoes, Bud? Orderly...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/03/04

For many years, the BC Vegetable Marketing Commission’s authority has only covered southern BC. But in 2024, the commission announced its intention to expand its regulatory authority over production in northern BC. The news was met with surprise and suspicion by some in that farming community who opposed the specifics of what the commission was envisioning. Eventually, this opposition came together to speak with a unified voice through the District C Farmers Institute, and the marketing commission

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01:03:08

Yanking out Cherries in Creston: Danny Turner

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/02/18

It’’s been a while since I’ve featured a long-form conversation with a BC farmer, but this episode I’ve got one to share with you. Danny Turner is one half of the ownership of Just A Mere Farm in BC’s Creston Valley. For year’s Danny’s main cash crop has been organic cherries, but the last time he turned a profit on the crop was before Covid. So Danny has gone all-in on organic blueberries, and he joined me to tell me why. We also talked about his earlier life as a management consultant, the value

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29:21

Bonus: Werner Stump has concerns about aspects of...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/02/05

This bonus episode: you heard a couple of media clips of Werner Stump, BC rancher and current President of BC Cattlemans, in the episode with George Abbott released yesterday. In this bonus episode, Werner joins me to discuss his concerns about aspects of BC's approach to reconciliation and the potential impact to decisions like Cowichan. In our conversation he references the Provincial Agreement on Haida Aboriginal Title.Then: a white landowner in Haida Gwaii shares her perspective about owning

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01:03:54

"Land Title is Under Threat!": Legit Concern? Moral...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/02/04

Today on the show I wade into the reconciliation discourse, because lately I’ve felt surrounded by it. Last August 7th the BC Supreme Court released its Cowichan Tribes decision, which recognized Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title to part of their traditional lands in Richmond. Some lands owned by the City of Richmond & the Federal government were declared invalid, and the decision also found that the granting of private property by the Crown on these lands unfairly infringed on the Cowichans'

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54:20

Where are all of BC's Cooperative Grocers?

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/01/21

This episode, a conversation about the Kootenay Co-op, a Nelson based, co-operatively owned, 21000 square foot grocery store that turns 50 this year, and which spent four million dollars last year purchasing products from farmers and processors in the Kootenay region. My guest is Amanda Verigin, who joined me to tell me about the store’s beginnings as a bulk food buying club in 1975, and how the co-op impacts, and is impacted by, a food system dominated by a handful of giant, vertically integrated

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01:03:11

Year in Review pt. 4

Farming in British Columbia ·

2026/01/07

In this final episode of the 2025 Farming in BC Yearbook Project, each farmer who participated joins me on the phone to compare the goals and anxieties they expressed at the head of the season to what actually happened. If there's anything you want to share with the show, visit farminginbc.ca/submit. Potential advertisers can visit farminginbc.ca/advertise for info on how to sponsor the show.

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20:30

2025 Christmas Special

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/12/24

It's the Farming in British Columbia Christmas Special!With special thanks to:Tristan BanwellVanessa SamurRadio Echoes for the old time radio clipsMentioned in this episode:farminginbc.ca/sexyhamfarminginbc.ca/listenfarminginbc.ca/submit

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01:06:15

Year in Review pt. 3

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/12/17

This episode, I ask a few of the province's ag sector leaders to reflect on the year we just went through. You'll hear from:Lana Popham, BC's Agriculture MinisterPeter Mitham, Editor & Writer at Country Life in BCJulia Smith, ED of Small Scale Meat Producers AssociationCasey Prium, Chair of BC DairyTheresa Burns, BC's Chief VeterinarianTo submit a voice memo to the show, visit farminginbc.ca/submitTo advertise on the show, visit farminginbc.ca/advertise

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23:56

Bonus: Ag Minister Popham on Water, the ALR, & the...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/12/10

This is a bonus episode featuring a segment of my recent interview with BC's Agriculture & Food Minister Lana Popham that won't be included in next week's episode featuring her reflection on the 2025 Farming Year. Herein, I ask the Minister if Buy BC should get cheeky with our grocery sector oligopoly, whether her ministry plans to address the massive water license application backlog, and why Farm Status on ALR land is so easy to obtain.In this segment, we reference the 2025 Premier's Task

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48:24

Year in Review pt. 2

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/12/04

Early this year I recruited 14 farming professionals from around BC to send me updates all year, with the hopes of turning it to some sort of Farming in BC Yearbook. Here, you'll here part one of a multi-episode series to close out the year. This time, you'll hear a summary of the 2025 farming season as a series of messages sent to me by project participants.You can contribute your own farm summary, or a good 2025 farming anecdote, by visiting farminginbc.ca/submit

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50:58

Year in Review pt 1

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/11/19

Early this year I recruited 14 farming professionals from around BC to send me updates all year, with the hopes of turning it to some sort of Farming in BC Yearbook. Here, you'll here part one of a multi-episode series to close out the year. This time, you'll meet the project's participants and hear about their goals and their anxieties heading into the 2025 season.You can contribute your own farm summary, or a good 2025 farming anecdote, by visiting farminginbc.ca/submit

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54:51

The Essential Episode

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/11/05

This show: Saltspring Island Farmer & author Abey Scaglione joins me to discuss her new book, Radical Farm, which argues that animals are essential to ensure the health of our soil, ourselves, and our food system. Then: did the BC Agriculture Council go to Victoria to ask that our Ag sector be deemed an essential service? Yes! Also, no! BCAC Executive Director Danielle Synotte joins me to explain.

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16:14

BONUS: Grossing $250K on 1/2 acre...this guy did it

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/10/22

This is a rebroadcast of an episode of my original show, The Ruminant, from 2019 or so. New episodes coming soon!Special thanks to Kirk Smith for recording this episode with me.

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01:03:06

Ag's Mother Problem

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/09/23

This ep: My guest on the show today is Katie Sardinha, an orchardist who runs Kaleidoscope Fruit Ranch based in Summerland. Katie wrote an op-ed in the August issue of Country Life in BC focused on the grocery oligopoly in Canada and the problem this poses for farmers. Katie thinks it’s a big problem, actually. Or not even ‘a’ big problem, but ‘the’ mother problem. I wanted to ask her to expand on what she meant, so I asked her for an interview.

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01:06:27

Abra Brynne on Place-based Food Systems and...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/09/04

My guest today is Abra Brynne. Abra’s not a farmer, but she comes from farmers, and early in her career she turned her passion for place-based food systems into a career dedicated to advocating and agitating for changes that would strengthen those systems. I’ve sat on a board or two with Abra, and I’ve chatted with her at various farming-related events over the last couple of years, and she is an Interesting Person, and so I’ve known for a while I wanted to interview her for the show.We talk about

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50:12

A Glimpse at the quota system; two takes on wine...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/08/20

Today on the show, I bring you some tales from some farmers in the trenches of BC food and beverage regulation. First you’re going to hear from one of the recipients of new milk production quota under BC’s supply management system. After that, an Okanagan winemaker expresses concerns about the potential extension of the exemptions that allowed a battered wine sector to make BC wine from non-BC grapes in 2024.

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01:18:37

Migrant Farmworker Julio Senties on Farming...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/08/06

This episode you’re going to hear my conversation with Julio Senties, a migrant farmworker from Mexico who has been coming to BC for seasonal work since 2017. In recent years Julio has been returning to Carcajou Fruit Company, a farm in Summerland that grows cherries, mainly for export. I interviewed one of Carcajou’s owners, Erin Carlson, for a couple stories for CBC radio a couple of years ago, and during my reporting she had connected me with Julio over email. Recently I invited Julio to sit down

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01:14:12

Brewing in British Columbia

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/07/09

My guests on the show today are Rebecca Kneen and Bryan MacIsaac of Left Fields Organic Farm in Sorrento. Their ten acre farm is a diversified operation that includes hops, veggie gardens, poultry and sheep. Until very recently, Left Fields was not the only business running on the property, though. Bryan and Rebecca were the founders of Crannog Ales, an on-farm craft brewery they founded in January 2000, back when there were just a handful of craft breweries in the whole province. If you’ve ever

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