Thursday, April 3, 2014

Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science Annual Workshop Review

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The thematic link of this year’s PRSSS Workshop – the past, present and future of British Columbia’s Agriculture Land Reserve (ALR) – wa...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Canning Dangers: Lessons Learned

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This is only my second serious year of canning. The first year I realized not only how accessible preserving food is but that it also an ac...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Canning Blog Envy

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There are a number of food blogs that are not only informative but visually stimulating. They are the kind that make me want to get up and d...

Bringing the Farm into the City: Summer Produce and Canning

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Now that I am doing my M. Sc. in Soil Science at the University of British Columbia, the hours I used to spend writing on the blog are dedic...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Growing Vegetables in Vancouver: An Urban Farming Census

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Today I sat in on my first master's thesis defense. A student in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC in the Integrated Studies a...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Hidden Bench: Agriculture in the Family

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People sometimes wonder how I became interested in food systems and agriculture since I grew up in Montreal and then moved to Vancouver - tw...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Report on Science

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I have recently returned to school to pursue a Masters in Science in Soil Science from the University of British Columbia. While trying to a...