Tag: Food Security
Newsletters (19) The Lands that Feed Us (1) What We’re Learning (10)
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Capitalism doesn’t invest in farms is because capitalism for farming is broken
If farming worked the way ordinary businesses work, starting a farm would be a matter of making a business plan, approaching a bank or…
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The Lands that Feed Us
The Lands that Feed Us is a spin-off project of The Hands that Feed Us, that is specifically designed to get funding from Telus…
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What the Stats on Farmland Prices Don’t Tell You
The statistics are shocking. Multiply the size of the average B.C. farm (365 acres) by the average cost per acre ($5,321) and you get…
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Your Local Farmer isn’t on Salary
One of the first rules of business I learned was this: Pay yourself first. The money you earn from working on your business —…
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What makes a Healthy Business Environment for Farmers?
What would it look like to live in a world where farmers didn’t struggle to make a living? How would it be different from…
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Why Food Businesses don’t stay Small
In my quest to find out why farming is such a tough business, a workshop for Food & Ag Entrepreneurs by a local Angel…
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The Hands that Feed Us: Amara Farm
Before The Hands that Feed Us was a campaign, it was a short, 12 minute documentary featuring Arzeena Hamir and her family on their…