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Farming in British Columbia — 70 episodes

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1

Your Thoughts on ALR Reforms

2

Food Processing in the ALR part two

3

Boon or Boondoggle? Weighing proposed changes for food processing in the ALR

4

Fair Finance for Small-Scale Farmers

5

Peace Country Grain Grower Les Willms

6

The Public Good Could Be Bad for this Farmer in Sumas Prairie

7

BC Agriweather (Or: Evapotranspiration as a Drought Mitigation Revelation)

8

How Our Governments Set Policies & Programs for Farmers

9

Your Water Shortage Concerns & How One Chore Becomes 20

10

Growing Wheat & Fending Off Nihilism in the Fraser Valley

11

Rebuilding what we lost of BC's small scale meat economy

12

Burnout Claims a Veggie Farmer in Buffalo Creek

13

A corporation is buying up this BC community's farmland

14

You Got a License for those Potatoes, Bud? Orderly Marketing Comes to Northern BC

15

Yanking out Cherries in Creston: Danny Turner

16

Bonus: Werner Stump has concerns about aspects of BC's Reconciliation Policy

17

"Land Title is Under Threat!": Legit Concern? Moral Panic?

18

Where are all of BC's Cooperative Grocers?

19

Year in Review pt. 4

20

Year in Review pt. 3

21

Bonus: Ag Minister Popham on Water, the ALR, & the role of Buy BC

22

Year in Review pt. 2

23

Year in Review pt 1

24

The Essential Episode

25

BONUS: Grossing $250K on 1/2 acre...this guy did it

26

Ag's Mother Problem

27

Abra Brynne on Place-based Food Systems and Decolonizing Farmland

28

A Glimpse at the quota system; two takes on wine import exemptions

29

Migrant Farmworker Julio Senties on Farming Seasonally in BC

30

Brewing in British Columbia

31

Your Complaints About Complaints

32

We could be growing a lot of BC's food under solar panels

33

Wild Sheep Need Help From BC's Farmers

34

Off-farm Commitments & The Farmers Who Make Them

35

Farm-to-Hospital & Other Support-Local Ideas

36

Extension & Data & Tariffs, Oh My

37

H5N1: Assessing & Mitigating the Risks to Poultry (Bonus Episode)

38

Checking in on the BC Food Hub Network

39

BONUS: Are you violating The Scheme? More on the orderly marketing of veggies in BC

40

A Tariff-Adjacent Conversation About BC's Veggie Marketing Commission

41

Setting the Peace on Fire on Purpose

42

Farmers Appraise their Farmers Markets

43

A Minister's Mandate (Or: Lana's Letter)

44

BONUS: GAP Certification: A Barrier & an Opportunity

45

The Queen Bee (Breeder) of Spallumcheen

46

Emergent Ag Pests and How We Repond

47

An Argument For Cleaning While You Cook

48

Why don't BC's farmers cooperate more?

49

Accessing Farmland When It's Too Damned Expensive

50

The Green Party's Vision for Ag in BC

51

Sisters-in-Laudable Farming Careers: Dairy & Veggies in Mara

52

BONUS: BCTF situation was dire for many years, argues my guest

53

How's Your Season Going?

54

BONUS: The Apple Sector Leading up to BCTF Closure

55

BCTF Closure...it's rough

56

The Burkholders Bros: Sweet Corn in Chase

57

BONUS: Another perspective on the agrologist regulation

58

You should care about how BC defines 'agrology'

59

Andrew Vogler: Farming with Bookends in Chilliwack

60

A Familial Farmer Feud About The Weather Forecast

61

Former ALC Chair Richard Bullock on the ALR & Sixty Years in Farming

62

Heritage Pig Breeding Around BC

63

West Enderby Farm: Carrots in the North Okanagan

64

How BC Drought Managers Make Tough Water Allocation Decisions

65

The Current State of Farmers Markets in BC

66

Bolen Livestock: Farm-to-Table Beef in Jaffray

67

Water Scarcity in Westwold and Around the Province

68

Dominion: Cider in Summerland

69

Zak Vescera on his reporting about BC's migrant farm workers

70

Wild Antho: Beekeeping in Armstrong