Blueberries left to compost as COVID-19 hits B.C. agriculture sector
With fewer workers available and outbreaks shutting the province’s farms and processing plants, heaps of blueberry compost will remain as testaments to COVID-19.
Weed, not food, drives record sales for B.C. farmers
Cannabis — not food — was the most profitable use of B.C.’s arable land last year.
Who owns B.C.'s fisheries?
Licences and quotas — the regulatory "keys" to fish harvesters' livelihoods — are managed through a system that has allowed corporations, as well as Canadian and foreign investors, to purchase the access rights to the province’s fish, which are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Why Canada hires thousands of migrant farm workers
COVID-19 laid bare cracks in our agricultural system. Cracks that run deeper than disrupted supply chains and empty shelves. Cracks that tie together sky-high farm debt, land speculation, and Canada’s reliance on migrant agricultural workers.
How regenerative agriculture is putting hope in the soil
Fifteen years ago, Brooks White had no bison, and his farm was struggling with floods and threadbare soil. Hoping to improve the situation, the fifth-generation Manitoba farmer took a chance, putting bison on his land to fertilize the soil and planting cover crops in flood-prone fields to feed them.