Posted in News Items, Save the Farm on October 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Efforts to save our last farm
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
10/31/2008
“Supporters of Vancouver’s last working farm will file into the Metro-Vancouver Board offices Friday morning to present 15-thousand signatures in favour of saving the UBC farm.
They’re waiting to see if the farm will be chopped down from 24 hectares to eight, if it’ll be moved to an old garbage [...]
Posted in News Items, Save the Farm, tagged election, media, UBC, Vancouver on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re like me, you might not have even known that such a thing as ‘Electoral Area A‘ existed. But hey! It does! And there’s an election there soon! Apparently in the last municipal election only 4% registered voters in the area voted. Pretty shabby. But this time, for all of you Electoral Area A [...]
Posted in Apprentices on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Fall seemed to come rather early this year, being colder and wetter than I remember in the past. Being born and raised in Ontario I am accustomed to the sunny, cool and crisp fall days of my youth. I suppose for the first time in my 5 years in BC I have been forced to [...]
Posted in Save the Farm, tagged activism, Friends of the Farm, media, video on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday marked the Friends of the Farm’s entry into the world of news media, as we held our first-ever press conference to announce the handover of over 16,000 signatures on our petition to save the Farm. Andrea Morgan and Matt Filipiak, along with others, met with UBC President Stephen Toope and Vice President Stephen Owen [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2008 | Comments Off
Dear community friends of the UBC Farm,
UBC Campus and Community Planning is currently nearing the end of a consultation process that includes three proposals for the future of the Farm. All three proposals remove the Farm’s necessary buffer and reduce the Farm’s size to 7-8ha. Effectively eliminating any further growth potential.
Two of the proposals even [...]
Posted in Events, Save the Farm, Vancouver Food, tagged apples, Events, Festivals, giant apple costumes, UBC Farm Heritage Orchard on October 24, 2008 | Comments Off
The Annual UBC Apple Festival was last weekend (Oct 18/19) and it was WONDERFUL! We had sunshine, and amazing volunteers, and GIANT APPLE COSTUMES…. and we had a super supportive reception from all the Apple Fest crowd. (Thanks UBC Bot Gardens!!)
We raised ~ $1300 for the UBC Farm through sales and encouraged ~1700 petition signatures [...]
Posted in Events, tagged festival, halloween, scarecrow, volunteering on October 24, 2008 | Comments Off
photo by flickr user EAWB
The Friends of the Farm are pleased to offer another year of build-your-own scarecrows, this Saturday, 11am-4pm.
Bring your own out-grown and unloved clothes to re-purpose. We provide the wooden frames, twine, straw, extra material, supervision and warm drinks.
Last year’s event was a big success, and we’re hoping you’ll bring your little [...]
Posted in Walkabouts, tagged flowers, grapes, salads, seeds on October 23, 2008 | Comments Off
The glories of summer days live on! Vive la couleur!
Posted in Save the Farm, tagged campus planning, consultations, Vancouver Campus Plan review process on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
UBC professor Charles Menzies at a consultation last week, Photo credit The Ubyssey
Pick up this week’s copy of the Ubyssey and you’ll find two articles discussing the Campus Plan consultation sessions currently being held by Campus and Community Planning.
I should say here that Friends of the Farm is very appreciative of the Ubyssey’s coverage of [...]
Posted in Walkabouts, tagged chickens, garlic, photos, pumpkins, winter squash on October 16, 2008 | Comments Off
