About this podcast
Interviews with BC-based farmers, food processors, academics and others who contribute to food production in BC in one way or another.
Episodes
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- Please enjoy this audio pumpkin pie · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 66Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Belatedly. Herein: a hodge podge. It's fun. LISTEN TO IT.
- Chris Bodnar's Bold Plan For BC Ag · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 65This episode: my interview with Chris Bodnar, a University of the Fraser Valley professor and long time Abbotsford-based farmer. Chris is the primary author of a recently…
- ADHD as a Strength & Weakness in Our Efforts to Preserve Seed Diversity · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 64Today on the show, a conversation with Richard Hebda about seed security and seed conservation. Richard is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Victoria and an…
- Your Thoughts on ALR Reforms · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 63The BC Ministry of Ag has proposed rule changes for food processing in the ALR that would make it much easier to build food processing facilities on classes 4-7 land, with a much…
- Food Processing in the ALR part two · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 62The BC Ministry of Ag has proposed rule changes for food processing in the ALR that would make it much easier to build food processing facilities on classes 4-7 land, with a much…
- Boon or Boondoggle? Weighing proposed changes for food processing in the ALR · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 61The BC Ministry of Ag has proposed rule changes for food processing in the ALR that would make it much easier to build food processing facilities on classes 4-7 land, with a much…
- Fair Finance for Small-Scale Farmers · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 61Today on the show, you’ll hear about a new opportunity for small-scale food and farm entrepreneurs in BC to access loans for capital and infrastructure. Learn more about the Fair…
- Peace Country Grain Grower Les Willms · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 60My guest this episode is Les Willms, one half of the ownership of LH Willms Incorporated, a 3000 acre grain farm in the Peace Country. If you’ve been a listener of the show for a…
- The Public Good Could Be Bad for this Farmer in Sumas Prairie · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 59The show today has two segments, both concerning undesirable amounts of water. In segment one, Dave Russenberger wrestles with a public plan that carries serious implications for…
- BC Agriweather (Or: Evapotranspiration as a Drought Mitigation Revelation) · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 58For this episode I wanted to explore the value of a good agricultural weather network, and to learn about an online resource for our sector called BC Agriweather. The person I…
- How Our Governments Set Policies & Programs for Farmers · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 57This episode we explore Canada's Next Agricultural Policy Framework, and how farmers can have a say in the policies and programs our governments create for farms and farmers. In…
- Your Water Shortage Concerns & How One Chore Becomes 20 · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 56I think the title for this episode does all of the necessary heavy lifting. Take a break this time, Show Notes. farminginbc.ca/submit to contact me.
- Growing Wheat & Fending Off Nihilism in the Fraser Valley · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 55This ep: my interview with the farmers of Cedar Isle Farm near Harrison Hot Springs, where Hannah, Diane, Jim, & Rosa told me about growing wheat, oats, barley and rye for their…
- Rebuilding what we lost of BC's small scale meat economy · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 54Today on the show, my conversation with Butcher Matt Kemp, a week after he figuratively cut the ribbon at the Okanagan Butcher Hub, a new meat cutting facility located in…
- Burnout Claims a Veggie Farmer in Buffalo Creek · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 53This 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…
- A corporation is buying up this BC community's farmland · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 52Today 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…
- You Got a License for those Potatoes, Bud? Orderly Marketing Comes to Northern BC · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 51For 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…
- Yanking out Cherries in Creston: Danny Turner · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 50It’’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…
- Bonus: Werner Stump has concerns about aspects of BC's Reconciliation Policy · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 49This 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…
- "Land Title is Under Threat!": Legit Concern? Moral Panic? · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 48Today 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…
