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Paper-making & Farm walkabout

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged Fraises, Strawberries, Volunteers on February 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

The Friends of the UBC Farm held their first walkabout and workshop of 2013 yesterday morning. The sun even came out to greet us as we took a walk around the farm, spotting many different bird species among the fields and trees. We spotted a few varieties growing in the fields, including beets, kale, collard greens, and various herbs. After the tour we made seed paper and little soil pots using recycled newsprint, a variety of seeds, and dried flowers from the UBC Farm. It was a nice way to end the week and start off the weekend!

Coming up in February and March, FoTF will be holding an outreach booth at the Environmental Fair in Gage Residence on Feb 26 (6-8pm) and on March 15 we’ll be at the UBC Farm Student Symposium at the SUB (9-5pm) – Hope to see you there!

: Can you spot the Robin?

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Une vignette de fraises

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged Fraises, Strawberries, Volunteers on July 4, 2012 |

Because this most adored of aggregate accessory fruits is so short-lived, we made a special effort to capture a few moments of strawberry-savouring over the past week.

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Autumn Greetings!

Posted in Daily News, Uncategorized, Walkabouts on October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The fresh autumn air welcome all with the generous harvest of the season. Acorn, Cinderella, Chucky and Delicata chatter excitingly in their harvest crates- wondering who will enjoy them in craft and cooking!

What a wonderful time of abundance and hunkering down! Come on out to the UBC Farm Pumpkin Patch and bring home a Jack O Lantern, Sugar or Baby Pumpkin – stop by, the gates are open from 9am-5pm Tuesday through Saturdays. And of course our campus and farm markets are offering fabulous fall produce in many shades and tastes of green, orange, red, yellow, and blue!

Enjoy a virtual UBC Farm fall walkabout through these pictures, and hope to see you soon. With warmth and community!

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Wednesday Walkabout June 15th

Posted in Uncategorized, Walkabouts, tagged asparagus, blossoms, Cedar weaving, chickens, kale, Lamb's Quarters, medicinal, peas, photos, practicum, raspberries, weed on June 14, 2011 |

: Caitlin, an intern, harvesting asparagus

: Anelyse and Amy painting wood planks to prepare for the chickens’ arrival, in awesome jumpsuits of course!

: Contessa Brown of the Heiltsuk First Nation facilitates The Wonders of Weaving and Working with Cedar workshop at the farm as part of the Farm’s Growing Season Workshop series

: Weaving cedar strips at the weaving workshop

: Bracelets, headbands, and roses woven with cedar strips.

: We welcomed 80 more chickens to the farm

: The new chickens settling into their portable chicken houses

: Lamb’s Quarters, a weed rich in vitamin A!

: Rows of cucurbits, tucked under biodegradable plastic mulch beds

: At the first Farm Gate Sale of the season

: Russian Red and Purple kale

: Pea shoots springing forth

: Gorgeous shrubs at the medicinal garden

: A beautiful and medicinal blossom, reaching to the sky

: Students from an urban agriculture course offered by Corpus Cristi and Vancouver’s Regent College mulching the raspberries

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Wednesday Walkabout June 1st

Posted in Uncategorized, Walkabouts, tagged alumni, beets, cattle, cucumbers, eggplant, flowers, garlic, hops, kale, practicum students, tomato, UBC Alumni Weekend on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Another awesome week at the UBC Farm!

: Garlic on the grow!

: This row cover has just been raised over eggplants and tomatoes in the Institute for Aboriginal Health Garden.

: Settling the two Belted Galloway cattle into their new home…

: UBC Alumni and family visiting the farm during Alumni Weekend this past Saturday

: Cucumbers in the greenhouse

: Nitrogen-fixing crimson clover lines the fields

: Hops, great for flavoring during brewing, as well as treating insomnia and anxiety.

: PhD Forestry student Gwen Huber measuring floral volatile scents in the blueberry field. She is examining the effect of volatiles on pollinators.

: Kale flowers

: Beet shoots

: Practicum students in thoughtful conversation

: Practicum students and Learning Mentor DeLisa Lewis take a chance on a rather ominous looking cloud in order to squeeze in some weeding time.

: Promise of strawberries to come!

: Budding chives

: Lettuce plugs being hardened off for transplanting

: Enormous Red Russian kale leaves in the greenhouse

: Lupines are everywhere at the farm at this time of year… Come on out and see how many you can count!

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Wednesday Walkabout, May 19th

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged blossoms, hopyard, orchard, planting, radishes, Strawberries, students on May 19, 2011 |

What the farm looks like this week!

: Onion transplanting by practicum students

: Asparagus pushing to the light

: It’s hard to tell which of the hops is taller!

: Integrational Learning Landed Project students planting potatos

: The last of muddy puddles as the sun rays shine on the farm

: Blossoms to welcome all who stop by

: At the orchard- Liberty variety

: New “budding buds”

: A robin hides in the trees

: Beds of beans between school tours

: More blossoms

: Growing strawberries at the greenhouse

: Making rows for planting

: A breakthrough for the radishes

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Wednesday Walkabout, Feb 9th

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged photos, spring, walkabout on February 14, 2011 |

On this rainy Vancouver day, we hope you enjoy these photos of the farm basking in the sun last Wednesday.

: Sassy Snowdrops

: Kooky Kale

: Lovely Leeks

: plants budding in the children’s garden

: Witch Hazel in bloom, and quite fragrant

: Radical Radicchio

: Excellent Endive

: This chard root has seen better days

: Sunflower remnants from last season

: Garlic is coming up! Can’t wait for those scapes.

: Budding Blueberries

: A new waste receptacle built by UBC civil engineering students

: Baby arugula – keep on growing!

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Flashback to fall!

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged Autumn, cabbages, cob, Community Service-Learning, cover crop, pumpkins on January 5, 2011 |

Way back in November, Friends of the Farm went on a photo walkabout with a member of the UBC Farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program and a special farm visitor. Evidently, we didn’t get around to posting the images for quite a while. On the bright side, now you’ll get to remember some of the colours and smells of decomposing entities from the autumn!

Thanks to Esha, Seth, and third-year community service-learning student Cindy for their photography and excellent company.

: Clusters of spider eggs nestled in the cob archway.

: Cob bread oven, newly built this past summer!

: “Ahoy, who tills there?”

: ¿Qué pasa, calabaza?

: Poplars and research birdhouses.

: Jocelyn sowing a cover crop by the sturdy new trellis system at the Urban Aboriginal Intergenerational Garden.

: Any ID guesses for this common veggie gone to seed?

: 4th-year UBC Film Production students at work on their movie!

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Autumn walkabout

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged apples, Autumn, grapes, pumpkin, raspberries, salmon, sunflower, walkabouts on October 10, 2010 |

Some plants wait until the drizzly, overcast days of autumn when leaves turn to rich mush at their feet before they finally divulge the gorgeous pigments that they had been hiding all along.