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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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01:06:15

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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34:24

Your Complaints About Complaints

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/06/26

This episode: updates from around the province, including a smattering of the kinds of complaints some of you have received while working in the ag sector.

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45:53

We could be growing a lot of BC's food under solar...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/05/28

This episode: a conversation about agrivoltaics--the integration of solar power generation with food production--with guest Omri Haven, who believes agrivoltaics can and should play an important role in energy generation in BC in the coming years. Reach out to Omri on Linkedin or email him.Youtube explainer on agrivoltaics referenced in the episode: https://youtu.be/lgZBlD-TCFE?si=IQMdRs9NdUx8izOR

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59:27

Wild Sheep Need Help From BC's Farmers

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/05/14

This episode, an interview with Helen Schwantje. Helen was the Wildlife Veterinarian for British Columbia from 1992 to 2021. To this day she continues as an emeritus and conducts contract work for government and NGOs on a variety of wildlife health issues. Helen has spent a lot of her career focused on the health of BC’s wild sheep herds, and she joined me to talk about the relationship between a specific virus, the domesticated sheep that carry it, and the wild sheep populations that are under

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01:02:26

Off-farm Commitments & The Farmers Who Make Them

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/04/30

Tristan Banwell can't be the only farmer whose volunteer commitments clash with the needs of his farm. But he was the only one who **volunteered** to talk to me about this. This episode, Tristan explains why he can't seem to reign in his volunteer obligations and what that means for his farm. Then he gives some advice to future Tristan. Then I talk to future Tristan. Hijinks ensue.Mentioned in this episode:Win a FBC Podcast Hat!The first & tenth listener to submit a voice memo by visiting

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55:49

Farm-to-Hospital & Other Support-Local Ideas

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/04/17

Herein: my conversation with Liz Blakeway, Executive Director of the Land To Table Network, an Okanagan-based society seeking a more properous and interconnected regional food economy. Liz and her colleagues have advocated for institutions like universities and health authorities to devote more, or in many cases, some, food-procurement dollars to purchasing regionally-produced food. I've been skeptical of this idea and asked Liz if I could express my doubts in an interview. She kindly accepted my

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50:13

Extension & Data & Tariffs, Oh My

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/04/02

This episode started out as an effort to learn about a PhD thesis focused on how farmers feel about data-sharing, but discovered some sidebars that were also worth sharing with you.First up: former British Columbian and perennial soil nerd Clare Sullivan on a circuitous path to an Ag-focused PhD in Greece by way of Oregon State University's extension program. Clare compares extension services in the states to what we have in here in BC, with some help from a special friend of the podcast. You can

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47:45

H5N1: Assessing & Mitigating the Risks to Poultry...

Farming in British Columbia ·

2025/03/26

This bonus episode was produced on behalf of the Small Scale Meat Producers Association with funding it received through the Farmed Animal Disease Program. The funding was delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation on behalf of the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food. This episode, two conversations aimed at helping us understand the risks posed by highly pathogenic H5N1. This strain of Avian Influenza has been circulating widely among wild birds in North America and over the last couple of

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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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