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Workshop: Scale Your Progressive Food Business with Feeding Growth

This series of five workshops provides practical tips for progressive retail and packaged goods companies to reach and maintain success.

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget: Cabbage

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.25 acre of cabbage grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada. 

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget: Carrot

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.5 acre of carrots grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada. 

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget: High Tunnel Cucumber

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.02 acre of cucumbers grown in a high tunnel on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

Vancouver Soil Map

This web-based tool provides unique learning opportunities on the topics of soil formation, urban agriculture, and ecological processes within an urban setting. The tool was designed with the intention of providing greater access to valuable information on land-use opportunities within the city of…

Food Production Potential and Water Requirements in Urban Agriculture

The number of urban farms is rising along with the interest in urban food production. Urban agriculture is linked to social benefits including community building, greening of cities, and fresh, locally produced foods. Urban farmers and city planners benefit from information about urban food…

SoilWeb200: An Introduction to Fundamental Soil Science Concepts

SoilWeb200 is an interactive introduction to basic soil science concepts, including soil classification, soil biology, and soil components.  It relates these concepts to soil various soil management issues.

Life Cycle Assessment of Bark Mulch Use On an Okanagan Apple Orchard

Farming For Carbon

Tensions at the Boundary: What Defines ‘Organic’ Plant Breeding?

Genomic technologies are developing rapidly and continue to impact the food and agriculture industry. The organic sectors in both Canada and the United States (US) have long been considered strongholds of resistance to the genetic modification of organisms. The goal of this study was to examine the…

Growing Organic Small Grains in South Coastal BC: Comparing Heirloom and Commercial Cultivars

Nearly 65 per cent of Canada’s 3,500 organic farms grow cereal crops, including mainly wheat and barley as well as legumes and oilseed crops. The demand for organic small grains is increasing, but one of the challenges in meeting this demand is attributed to the lower yields in organically managed…

Barley–Pea Intercropping: Growing Crops Together to Improve Land Productivity

Growing barley as the sole crop in a field has impacts on land productivity by decreasing soil carbon and nitrogen. Sustainable nitrogen management is challenging due to the increasing cost of nitrogen fertilizers, the emission of nitrous oxide, and the potential of nitrates contaminating both…

KPU Southwest British Columbia: Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Brussel Sprout

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.05 acre of Brussel sprouts grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada. 

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Winter Squash

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.1 acre of winter squash grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Potato

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for one acre of potatoes grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada. 

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Zucchini

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.03 acre of zucchini grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Radish

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.05 acre of radish grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

Farmland Hedgerows: Hedgerow Benefits and the Delta, BC Hedgerow Project

Hedgerows are trees, shrubs and grasses bordering the edges of farm fields. These areas provide numerous agricultural and environmental benefits. It is for these benefits that farmers in the lower Fraser River Delta have been planting hedgerows since 1995 with the support of the Delta Farmland…

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget 2015: Hops

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns establishing and producing hops for a 1 acre small-scale farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise Budget: Fresh Market Bean (Bush Bean)

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.02 acre of fresh market beans grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.