Fall Colours on the Farm

It’s that time of year when the days are shorter and colder and growth on the farm has slowed. Many crops are finished for the season and cover crops have been sown to protect the soils from th winter rains and replenish them for the next season’s crops.  Mother nature is giving the few crops [...]

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You’re invited! “Sowing Seeds for the Future” OPEN HOUSE: Saturday October 31, 2-5pm

On Saturday Oct 31 all prospective applicants to the 2010 Sowing Seeds for the Future Practicum are invited to attend  a drop-in Open House at the UBC Farm between 2-5pm! Come meet this year’s apprentices and farm staff, tour the site and get your questions answered! For the 2008 and 2009 growing seasons, the Centre [...]

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Bridge to a Cool Planet Event this Saturday

A message from the event organizers: There is an amazing event coming up this Saturday, Oct.24th: Bridge to a Cool Planet. It will be Western Canada’s largest day of climate action (2nd only to the one in Ottawa). It is also part of the www.tcktcktck.org | www.350.org campaign: 3000+ events happening all around the world! [...]

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“Farm virgin” visits UBC Farm

Hey Farm Friends, check out this video recently shot at UBC farm by the “Farm Virgin.” It’s called “episode 9″…just in case you’re confused about the lack of a more descriptive title.

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Spartans and Pippins and Winesaps, Oh My!

In the dark, cold, exam-filled winter of 2005/2006 I huddled in the UBC Farm Centre kitchen, surrounded by grafting knives, tape, bundles of unlikely looking twiggy things and mugs of hot tea.  Keen students and volunteers joined me, and thus began the UBC Farm Heritage Orchard! We grafted 155 trees, including 60 different apple cultivars [...]

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Giving Thanks

Thank you sun and summer heat, that brought us sweet winter squash. Thanks, colours of fall, intense beyond our senses, that prove nature’s supremacy in the realm of art. Thank you grasses and flowers, crimson clover and vetch, that protect and enrich the soil. Thank you kind hearted souls who have come to the farm [...]

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Harvest Festival in photos!

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Harvest Festival update!

Hello Farm Friends! October is welcoming us with the promise of sun this weekend, so we hope you’ll join us our Harvest Festival Market this Saturday, October 3rd. The schedule for the day includes: 9:00am – 1:00pm: UBC Farm Market, featuring tasty seasonal produce from the UBC Farm and an assortment of other vendors (more [...]

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UBC Farm Harvest Festival, Saturday, Oct. 3rd, 9-1

Please join us for our fall Harvest Festival at our Saturday Farm Market on October 3rd, 2009, from 9am-1pm. Our Harvest Festival will feature live music, face painting, pumpkins for sale, spiced apple cider from Happy Planet, scarecrow making, plus an assortment of vendors as well as fresh, organic produce from the UBC Farm. For [...]

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