Resources

UBC Farm FAQ: A list questions frequently asked by students.

Documents

UBC Farm Program Summary (pdf, 4 pages, 110kB): an almost comprehensive listing of programs at the UBC Farm during the 2004 season.

UBC Farm Brochure (pdf, 2 pages, 5.1MB): a tri-fold brochure showing a pictorial map of the farm in 2004 with a brief description of different site features.

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Reports and Research Papers

Though some of the specific information is no longer applicable owing to changes in the campus since they were written, there are two key reports that still effectively outline the larger vision for the UBC Farm.

Quayle, Moura (2000). Re-Inventing the UBC Farm: Urban Agriculture and Forestry on the Point Grey Campus. A publication of the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (pdf, 24 pages, 200kB).

The document provides an academic vision for the UBC Farm within the context of UBC's TREK 2000 strategic plan (now TREK 2010), and identifies useful precedents. The document encompasses all the agricultural lands on Point Grey, including many areas (the South Campus Animal Science Facilities, the Macmillian Precinct) that have since been de-comissioned or developed into other uses. The vision, however, remains pertinent to the UBC South Campus Farm to this day.

Masselink, Derek (2001). The UBC South Campus Farm: The Elaboration of an Alternative. M.LA thesis (pdf, 24 pages, 2.9MB).

This master's thesis updates the UBC Farm focus to the South Campus, where most of our programming efforts currently take place. The proposal suggests how the farm could play an integrated and beneficial role in a complete innovative South Campus community. The document contains a good historical and landscape survey of the South Campus site, and offers some specifics as to the scale and nature of the farming operation that the site would support. In this proposal, the farm would be the site of a community centre, a residential college and retreat, a unified farm centre building, and would be fully integrated with the community's elementary school grounds.

The written thesis is accompanied by a series of presentation drawings. The full set is available for viewing at the Farm Centre office. Electronic versions of the presentation boards are very large files. Currently, only the following presentation boards are available online: