Food Insider

On the heels of a $98-million funding commitment, Farmers for Climate Solutions has sent a recommendation to the federal government: set aside $300 million in the 2021 budget for agri-environmental spending.

Emergency funds, food hubs and advocacy work are bringing food relief to students during COVID-19.

Canadian dairy farmers will receive over $1.4 billion in the next three years from the federal government to compensate for recent trade deals.

Vegetables are becoming increasingly common in an unusual place: the grocery store meat aisle.

“These restaurants that are reaching out to me, they have websites, they have Instagram, but very few of them have TikTok,” Coleman says. TikTok is still a new enough social media platform that businesses haven’t yet fully embraced it, she says, but influencers have.

Fisheries appear to be taking a more prominent role in B.C. Premier John Horgan’s new cabinet.

Bio-based plastics, most of them compostable to some degree, are proliferating across Canada. Yet millions of compostable cups, containers and bags will probably still end up in landfills. It’s a crisis driven, in part, by bad communication.

More than two-thirds of the world’s fields, ranches and orchards are owned by one per cent of its farmers, according to a report released Tuesday.

As a kid, Delbert Good remembers coming home from a day of picking potatoes to find a meal made from the fruits of his family’s garden.

When Nathan Bennett looks at B.C.’s fisheries, he sees problems — and not only those associated with low stocks. He also worries about the people who catch the fish.

Each year, fields of Canadian produce are plowed under due to cancelled orders. But that may be about to change.

“There’s this narrative in Prince Rupert that you can’t grow food here because we don’t have a lot of flat land, and whatever is flat is muskeg or bedrock, and it rains all the time,” said Alexie Stephens, program manager in the Skeena region for Ecotrust Canada. “That’s something we want to change.”

LiteFarm, a farm management software developed by the University of British Columbia, aims to help organic farmers keep track of data and renew their organic certifications.

About 30 per cent of Canadians have bought groceries online in the past six months, and online food sales have surged since the pandemic started, according to a new study by researchers at Dalhousie University.

Jacob Beaton wouldn’t be a farmer without lettuce. Lots of lettuce.