Posts tagged ‘young farmers’

10.22.18How We Can Regrow Sustainable Agriculture in BC
Investing in British Columbia’s Food Security
British Columbia is facing an agricultural crisis. Sixty percent of farmers in BC are over age 55, and the new young generation of farmers cannot take over. At the same time as baby boom era farmers are retiring, speculation has […]

6.10.17Who Are the 21st Century Farmers?
British Columbia’s Agricultural Future
A new report from Statistics Canada provides a snapshot of farmers and farming in Canada. In a year that has seen baby boom generation farmers retire at a rapid rate, it comes as no surprise that the average age of […]

10.13.15Starting a Farm in One Year
How Two Young Farmers and a Love of Fine Food Created The Fickle Fig
Three hundred sixty-five days, more or less — that’s the time it took. When Mitchell Morse and Chris Margetts told their friends they planned on starting a farm, no one expected to see it in a year’s time. Because back […]

10.13.15Starting the Fickle Fig Farm
Farm to Plate from the Ground Up
In this video, Mitchell Morse and Chris Margetts talk about the planning, hard work and adventures that went into starting The Fickle Fig Farm. In just one year, they transformed an empty hay field on Vancouver Island into a fully […]