About the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm
The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm (CSFS) is the steward of a unique resource: Vancouver’s last working farm. The UBC Farm is a 24-hectare teaching, research and community farm located on UBC’s Vancouver campus. Forming a rich mosaic of cultivated fields, teaching gardens, forest stands, hedgerows, and orchard plantings, the Farm is a unique urban agrarian gem.
Unique among on-campus facilities, the UBC Farm and its surrounding areas allow for field-scale production of food, fibre, and fuel, and provide a range of ecosystem services to the campus. In close proximity and fully integrated with a world-class community of researchers, South Campus affords an opportunity to better understand and manage the characteristics of the ecosystems that support urbanizing societies. The interface with the city enhances research opportunities that also address community, ecosystem, and global health.
The Centre's Mission is:
To enable UBC to be a global leader in the creation of new patterns for sustainable and healthy communities integrated with their surrounding ecology, through exemplary, academically rigorous research, through transformative learning, through innovative cross-faculty and interdisciplinary collaboration, through socially responsible community engagement, and through international dialogue and knowledge-dissemination.
The centre's programming integrates multiple learning, research, and community service functions.