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Category: Urban Farming

Shutting Down Urban Farming in Lantzville

November 22, 2010 Mike Thomas

The trouble with attempting to be progressive is that there are often rules against it, whether written or unwritten. It…

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Posted in: Business, Cities, Community, Environmental, Regulation, Sustainability, Urban Farming Filed under: agriculture, BC, Dirk Becker, farming, Lantzville, Nanaimo, resiliency, urban agriculture, urban farm, urban farming, Vancouver Island

The Bear

August 24, 2010 Mike Thomas 3 Comments

The bear came last night. A sow, a big momma, a big hungry momma. Even though we’d hidden the bin,…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Sustainability, Urban Farming Filed under: agriculture, apples, bear, bears, black bear, Castlegar, farming, gardening, orchard

Paladio Peas

August 4, 2010 Mike Thomas

Fresh peas are one of the joys of gardening. For the past two seasons we have grown a variety of…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Sustainability, Urban Farming

The Humble Blueberry

July 6, 2010 Mike Thomas 3 Comments

So after my last post, which I admit was a little depressing – sometimes these things need to be stated…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Our House, Urban Farming Filed under: Antioxidant, Berries, Berry, Blueberries, Blueberry, Business, Canada, Cook, David Suzuki, fruit, Garden strawberry

Goats @ Google

May 11, 2010 Mike Thomas 1 Comment

As I take a break from writing my comments to the Draft Sustainability Discussion Paper for Castlegar, I was drawn…

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Posted in: Rural, Sustainability, Urban Farming

Food Inflation

April 27, 2010 Mike Thomas

While pundits and economists everywhere welcome in the “recovery”, a different story is brewing in the US produce sector, from…

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Posted in: Business, Health, Sustainability, Urban Farming Filed under: Bylaws, farming, food, food policy, food security, food supply, GMO, inflation, right to farm, urban agriculture

Castlegar Yard Waste Pickup

March 23, 2010 Mike Thomas

The City is once again providing a yard waste pickup program. I’m thinking of using it this year for the tenacious weeds that…

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Posted in: Environmental, Sustainability, Urban Farming Filed under: Castlegar, Compost, yard waste, yard waste pickup

Peak Oil Vignette 5 – Hope and Reality

March 12, 2010 Mike Thomas 6 Comments

Walking from the large brick building that used to house the airport terminal operations, but now was given new life…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Community, Development, Peak Oil Vignettes, Sustainability, Transitions, Urban Farming Filed under: Castlegar, farming, fiction, fuit, Kootenays, orchard, peak oil, stories, Transitions, urban agriculture, urban farming

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