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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

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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UBC Farm 2011 CSA application now available online!

Posted in UBC Farm Updates, tagged Community-Supported Agriculture, CSA, Fresh on April 26, 2011|

Summer CSA box.

Are you interested in eating the freshest and greenest the UBC Farm has to offer? Apply for a spot in the UBC Farm’s 2011 Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) box program. Members receive a box of fresh veggies every week starting in June for 20 weeks. This is a fantastic way to connect with your local food system, follow the seasonal changes from your table and support the UBC Farm. For full program details and to fill out an application please refer to the Farm website at http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/csa.php

The deadline for applications is May 9th.

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Joy of Feeding – May 15th at UBC Farm

Posted in Events, UBC Farm Updates, Vancouver Food, tagged community, cooking, festival, food, fundraiser, moms, Vancouver on April 21, 2011|

Celebrate and enjoy comfort foods created and cooked from the heart. Fifteen Canadian moms of various heritages will share their cuisines, stories and cultures at this family-friendly community cooking event organized by (moms) Meeru Dhalwala of Vij’s and Mary MacKay of Terra Breads. Special guests Tarun Nayar and Sanjay Seran (Delhi 2 Dublin) and Rup Sidhu (BPM) will perform their eclectic mash-up of Punjabi-bhangra-hip-hop. This event is a fundraiser for the UBC Farm and its children’s programs.

Date: Sunday, May 15th, 2011, 1:00-4:00 pm
Location: UBC Farm, 6182 South Campus Road (see website for directions).
Tickets: Tickets are $50 and include a recipe book with each mom’s story and family recipe. One child under 12 is free per paid ticket; tickets for additional children ages 6-11 are $25 (available online only). Children under 6 are free. Tickets can be purchased at Rangoli, Lower Mainland Choices Markets, or online at Brown Paper Tickets. Visit www.joyoffeeding.com for more details.

Want to help us promote the event? Download, print and display this Joy of Feeding poster (5.1 MB PDF).

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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.