Agriculture
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Jan, 22
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds Everyone is thinking about garden seeds, or could be. In 2021 I set out to grow [...]
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Nov, 21
Chilliwack-Abbotsford Dairies
The past week in Chilliwack has been a matter of hanging on every word of news about rivers rising, roads flooding [...]
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Nov, 21
BC Recipes 1979
It’s been forty-two years since one of the first recipe books attempting to define BC cuisine was published. It was [...]
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Oct, 21
Gellatly Nut Farm
Gellatly Nut Farm If you live in the Okanagan, you are probably familiar with Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park on Okanagan [...]
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Apr, 21
Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts When people who are trying to “eat local” or use various versions of regional diets ask “What to do about [...]
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Mar, 21
Joel Palmer: Pioneer Provisioner in British Columbia
by Ken Mather Joel Palmer was born in Upper Canada in 1810 but at the outbreak of the War of 1812, [...]
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Mar, 21
Beef and Bunch Grass
by Ken Mather In the hot dry interior of British Columbia, the predominant vegetation is bunch grass. The term “bunch grass” [...]
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Mar, 21
Beef for the Colony of British Columbia
by Ken Mather Governor James Douglas of the Colony of British Columbia had a problem, but it was a good problem. [...]
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Sep, 20
Chilliwack Corn
Chilliwack corn is ready and this is a fact not to be ignored. It hit the market about a month ago [...]
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Jun, 20
Growing Rhubarb
Growing rhubarb Rhubarb - Pigeon Lake, Alberta - photo contributed Rhubarb thrives across Canada from the Atlantic to the [...]