Helping bees help us
450 native bee species in BC (and not one is a honeybee) Pollinators make 87 of the top 128 global food crops possible. Pollinator...
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Bowen Wildlife: Friend or Foe?
Bowen Agricultural Alliance (BAA) and Bowen Island Food Resilience Society (BIFS) are looking to understand the issues of bird and mammal...
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Putting your beds to bed
Ready to hang up your rake? Before you walk away from your vegetable garden this year, we have outlined some steps for putting your...
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Food, Climate, and the Agri-Cultural Revolution
Not to sound alarmist, but the number of challenges facing the provincial food system has been growing for a while. The pressures of...
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Turn your pandemic garden into a Tiny Victory Garden
It was roughly a year ago that grocery stores started struggling to keep toilet paper on shelves. We hadn’t yet been told not to leave...
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What's the Agricultural Land Reserve and why should we care?
The history of British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) began in Richmond in the early 1970s when Harold Steves and other local...
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Bring back the old-fashioned root cellar
Marion Moore’s Bowen memories stretch back to the 1920s. She grew up on Collins Farm, which was then 160 acres and produced enough food...
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Benefits and obstacles to farming on Bowen Island
Farming is more than an occupation; it’s a relationship with the land, an ongoing honing of knowledge, and often a calling....
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Food Resilience in the COVID Reality
In the past few days and weeks, our world has shifted. What used to be important turns out not to be essential. And, the things many of...
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A review and a call to action: Growing Good Food
“Gardening can teach us something of what we must know to survive. We have believed that what is good for us is good for the world and we...
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