By Glenn Gaetz
| Image: iStock / allyclark |
Published: March 31, 2009
Humane. Organic. Cage-free. Free-range. Free-run. Cruelty-free. Natural. With so many different designations, it's hard to know which egg is the best egg
So, I decided to take a little journey down the path towards “cruelty-free” eggs and see what I could find out.
By Colleen Tang
| Image: Colleen Tang |
Published: June 18, 2010
Inner-city farm in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside provides fresh food and employment for the community
Rain or shine, Rob, the farm organizer at
SOLEfood Urban Farm in the Downtown Eastside, can be seen as early as 7 a.m., sometimes even 6, walking up and down the soil beds of growing fruits and vegetables.
By Hilary Henegar
| Image: Hubert Kang |
Published: September 18, 2009
As City staff finalize their recommendation for the
backyard chickens bylaw, which would allow Vancouver residents to keep egg-layers on their property,
Village Vancouver and Fork in the Road are hosting three neighbourhood Backyard Chickens 101 learning parties with Heather Havens this Sunday, September 20, 2009.
By
Lesa Dee Tree
| Image:
Courtesy UBC Farm and by Jeannette Ordas
|
Published: April 06, 2009
Lesa Dee Tree talks with the Friends of the UBC Farm’s Andrew Rushmere about the plight of the UBC Farm and how they plan to save it.
Learn about food security and organic gardening programs on the UBC farm, and understand the implications of the Official Community Plan on the farm. Plus, find out who’ll be speaking and performing at the Great Farm Trek of 2009.
Photos are by Jeannette Ordas and courtesy the UBC Farm.
By
Lesa Dee Tree
| Image:
Courtesy UBC Farm and by Jeannette Ordas |
Published: April 06, 2009
On April 7, the Friends of UBC Farm are organizing the Great Farm Trek of 2009. While this is an opportunity to celebrate the farm and its community of supporters, organizers of the event also hope to encourage the UBC Board of Governors to support the proposed preservation of the 24-hectare farm in its current location.
By Emily Jubenvill
| Image: Flickr Commons / George Eastman House |
Published: March 26, 2009
For nearly 30 years Vancouver has had
by-laws against raising chickens in the city, and for nearly 30 years there has been debate over legalizing backyard hens; City Farmer Newspaper’s
first issue in 1978 featured the debate. Health concerns, noise complaints and animal welfare top the
lists of reasons not to allow urban chickens. A city farmer can tend to a vegetable patch, plant a rutabaga, or prune an apple tree with little controversy. But put a hen in the veggie patch, and sparks fly. Yet
“off-the-books” flocks fly under city by-law radar from
New Haven, Conn., to
Vancouver.
By Davin Luke
| Image: iStock / Irochka_T |
Published: March 26, 2009
Life is all about making tough decisions.
By Melissa Fraser
| Image: Melissa Fraser |
Published: March 11, 2009
This winter I moved out of the apartment I grew up in and into a house. A house with a yard. A real live yard.
By Granville Online
| Image: Granville |
Published: February 24, 2009
Granville magazine columnist Allen Garr is a Vancouver journalist and commentator who has made time for his passions: birding, gardening and beekeeping.
By Emily Jubenvill
| Image: Emily Jubenvill |
Published: February 03, 2009
After finishing my degree, I moved to Vancouver. It was the first time I’d ever signed a lease for more than four months (university students run on short-term circuits); terrified at the time, I figured that I would make the best of it and “settle in.” The seed catalogues arrived a few weeks after we moved in.
