Food Insider

Forget lions, tigers and bears: For Claire Kremen, winner of the 2020 Volvo Environment Prize, conserving insects is more important.

Across B.C.’s Kootenay region, slow internet has left many farmers struggling after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed everything from sales to school online.

Each September, Ashala Daniel sows her fields with winter rye, hoping the seed takes root before the first snows fall. It’s a ritual that could help save the planet.

Andrea Lucy expected the pandemic would hold challenges, but finding worms wasn’t on her list.

A group of more than 60 major American industry associations are trying to stop Canada’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution.

Each year, about 196,000 tonnes of seafood — everything from salmon to scallops — is harvested off the B.C. coast. But unlike its East Coast counterparts, the province doesn’t have a fisheries minister.

Canadian agribusinesses are asking for a standardized scale to measure their environmental impacts — a request some advocates worry is little more than smoke and mirrors.

Were it not for the hippies, professional mushroom picker Joe Stone says he would probably still be building houses.

The Fraser Valley’s fertility is literally vanishing beneath farmers’ feet.

Hidden in anodyne filing cabinets scattered across the federal government’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa is a library of 17 million dead bugs.

Urban gardens are thriving worldwide, especially this year as pandemic-bound city dwellers have sought sustenance in gardens, parks and other green spaces.

Some First Nations in B.C. have been stepping in to fill the regulatory gap in managing non-timber forest resources — a move both highlighting the value of forests beyond the trees and increasing First Nations’ jurisdiction over their land.

Forests have historically been valued on an industrial scale, managed to maximize the amount of timber cut. But when they aren’t clearcut, they also offer other valuable resources that First Nations and advocates say should be recognized as well.

Beneath forest canopies, a multimillion-dollar wild mushroom industry lies hidden.

Feeding Canadians more sustainably should be a priority for the federal government as it helps the country recover from the pandemic, an environmental coalition says.