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Shopping Locally for Produce in Canada: Why It Matters and How to Start

May 20, 2025

Shopping Locally for Produce in Canada: Why It Matters and How to Start Our actions can help build a stronger and more sustainable food system. When you walk through a farmers’ market or pick up a box of produce from a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, you are doing more than just buying fruits and vegetables […]

Tagged with Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Food and Resource Economics, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut

Flavour of the Month: Contrasting Flavours

April 28, 2025

We asked Tim Carter, Field Manager at UBC Farm, what his favourite flavour was! Read more about Tim’s take on contrasting flavours.

Tagged with 2025, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Staff, UBC Farm
Categories: News

Sowing the Seeds for Resilient Production Systems

May 17, 2024

While Dr. Andrew Riseman takes a lengthy view of the research topics he tackles at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm (CSFS), many of the real world challenges in his field are arising more often and becoming more dramatic.

Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Plant Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research

Building Resilience: The UBC Farm’s Strategic Plan to Transform Food Systems

May 17, 2024

In the face of multiple crises converging on the way we grow, distribute and eat food, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at the UBC Farm is responding with a new plan to facilitate change.

Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut

Addressing community needs in the food system

January 17, 2023

Three Faculty of Land and Food Systems initiatives received funds of up to $1500 through UBC’s Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) fund to work with community partners.

Tagged with 2023, Awards, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Equity Diversity Inclusion and Indigeneity, Staff, Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Categories: News

Sean Smukler to lead UBC Farm’s CSFS

January 2, 2023

Associate Professor Sean Smukler is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at UBC Farm as of Jan. 1, 2023.

Tagged with Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Faculty, Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Categories: News

Digital detection web for on-campus insects: Building community resilience in biodiversity monitoring

March 4, 2022

Tracking insects at UBC campus is taking a leap forward by employing high-tech, automated tools such as remote sensing, machine learning, and the Internet of Things.

Tagged with 2022, Applied Biology, Awards, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Farm
Categories: Research

Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years for CSFS

May 17, 2021

Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hənq̓ ̓əmin̓əm-speaking x ̓ ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, the UBC Farm continues the long xʷməθkʷəy̓əm tradition of learning and harvesting on these lands. UBC students started growing food here in the […]

Tagged with 2021, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Staff, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut

Feeding Growth Dishes Out Ideas for Growing Young B.C. Food Businesses

November 22, 2018

Feeding Growth Dishes Out Ideas for Growing Young B.C. Food Businesses Earnest Ice Cream, Spread ‘Em Kitchen, and Nuba have something in common. They all received help scaling their businesses through workshops offered by Feeding Growth. Launched in 2015, Feeding Growth has helped more than 300 food entrepreneurs grow their sustainable food businesses. It’s where […]

Tagged with 2018, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut

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