［Ended］UBC Farm Tour – Introducing Organic Farming

Have you ever wondered about how organic farming differs from regular farming? Did you know that in order to be considered organic, produce must be cultivated in soil that has not been treated with pesticides or chemical fertilizers for at least three years?

 

 

For more than 20 years, concerned about the well-being of the customers, producers and the environment, MUJI has been continuously working to increase the percentage of organic cotton in its products. Since 2018, 100% of the cotton used in MUJI apparel is organic.

 

 

This summer, we invite you to visit the UBC Farm and to learn how they adopted organic practices since the late 1990’s to support the organic movement in the area, bringing beneficial values to our community.

 

 

Participants will engage with the Site Coordinator in a private farm tour to discover indigenous gardening, organic crop production fields, laying hens, and a few more organic farming projects. Following the tour, UBC Farm will provide pre-harvested local wildflower and cultivated flower varieties to build your own bouquet for a fee*. There will also be the option to harvest your own flowers in the nearby flower fields with staff that tend the flower fields.

 

 

The UBC farm is holding its Saturday Market until 2:00PM. We encourage you to stay after for your own exploration time.

 

 

*Fee for build-your-own bouquet will depend on the bouquet size, ranged up to max. $15. 

 

 

 

[Guest Instructor]

UBC Farm is the main teaching and learning space of the Centre for Sustainable Food System (CSFS), a research centre and local-to-global food hub working towards a more sustainable, food-secure future. A 24-hectare integrated production farm, the UBC farm is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceeded territory of the Musqueam people. All  organically managed, UBC Farm produce is certified organic through NOOA. Presently, over 200 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and herbs, honey beehives and open-pasture egg-laying hens are cultivated at UBC Farm. 
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• Online registration is mandatory.

• Open to all ages. Participants ages 8 or younger must be accompanied by an adult. Please register each participant separately. 

• The tour will start at the announced time. Please arrive early for the tour to start on time.

• The UBC Farm is located in the Wesbrook Village area, University of British Columbia’s South Campus.

• The UBC Farm has a parking lot which has a limited number of spaces, the first 2 hours are free with registration. On Saturdays there is FREE parking available in the gravel construction lot at the northeast corner of Ross Drive and Birney Ave. If possible, please choose to bike, bus, or carpool to the UBC Farm. 

• Please contact us here if you have any questions.

 

Location: the UBC Farm, 3461 Ross Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W5

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Click below to register. The session will last about 90 minutes.

 

Saturday, August 3rd, 10AM