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The Great Spallumcheen Farm & Food Festival and North Okanagan Plowing Match is happening this Sunday, September 24 from 10-3 at Fieldstone Organics, 4851 Schubert Rd, Armstrong. The outdoor festival features tastings and a market brimming with local food and beverage vendors, a horse and tractor plowing competition and vintage farm equipment displays. ... See MoreSee Less

The Great Spallumcheen Farm & Food Festival and North Okanagan Plowing Match is happening this Sunday, September 24 from 10-3 at Fieldstone Organics, 4851 Schubert Rd, Armstrong. The outdoor festival features tastings and a market brimming with local food and beverage vendors, a horse and tractor plowing competition and vintage farm equipment displays.
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The top five issues the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity identified in a recent survey were the cost of food, inflation, the cost of energy, keeping healthy food affordable and the Canadian economy. “We are seeing that environmental concerns are not in the top 10,” says Amy Peck, manager of the Canadian Cattle Association’s public and stakeholder engagement program. “If you are concerned about being able to afford to feed your family, the environment becomes less important.” ... See MoreSee Less

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BC Tree Fruit Co-op has sold its Lake Country packing house as part of its long-term plan to consolidate operations. The sale, to an undisclosed buyer, closed on August 31, 2023 for $15.8 million. ... See MoreSee Less

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BC Tree Fruit Co-op has sold its Lake Country packing house as part of its long-term plan to consolidate operations. The sale, to an undisclosed buyer, closed on August 31, 2023 for $15.8 million.
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Ted Nedjelski Karen Turner

One of my first jobs was apple grading in a packing plant in Vernon

Vivian, is this where you worked?

I’d hear the company that owns the big Cannabis company that owns the green houses all around this packing plant was buying up everything around to expand. Wonder if it’s them that got it.

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The federal government has committed $1.81 million over the next three years to support the BC Poultry Association's preparation for direct participation in responses to future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the province. “The persistence of the virus in wildlife and recurrence of outbreaks globally, presents additional risks during the migratory bird season in North America later in 2023,” the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Vancouver advised in July. For more, visit www.countrylifeinbc.com/ai-risk-rises-with-fall/ ... See MoreSee Less

The federal government has committed $1.81 million over the next three years to support the BC Poultry Associations preparation  for direct participation in responses to future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the province. “The persistence of the virus in wildlife and recurrence of outbreaks globally, presents additional risks during the migratory bird season in North America later in 2023,” the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Vancouver advised in July. For more, visit https://www.countrylifeinbc.com/ai-risk-rises-with-fall/
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Non-BC market vendors approved

March 3, 2021 byPeter Mitham

BC Association of Farmers Markets members have approved a special resolution to permit food vendors based within Canada but outside BC to sell at farmers markets in the province.

The resolution, passed at the association’s annual general meeting March 2, will benefit markets near the Alberta border. Several markets have faced a limited selection of vendors since BCAFM bylaws changed three years ago preventing them from having non-BC vendors.

The change will allow “a Person or Organization that is not located within British Columbia, or whose food products are not grown, made, baked, raised or wild harvested within British Columbia but who is located in Canada not more than 300 kilometres” from the market where it intends to sell its food products to be a vendor at said market. The vendor must sell only food produced within 300 km of the market.

The motion would permit vendors from as far east as Calgary to sell in Revelstoke, for example, or a vendor from east of Lethbridge to sell in Fernie. Elkford and Sparwood, which left the association because of the restrictions on vendors, could host vendors from as far east as Medicine Hat.

BCAFM members also approved a resolution legalizing online markets, providing all items and vendors are from BC. Bylaws previously prohibited exclusively online markets, but some association members found this was the only way they could operate under public health restrictions in 2020.

Restrictions designed to fight COVID19 continue, however.

Many of the four dozen attendees at the online meeting expressed concern over restrictions on flower and wool vendors as part of the provincial health order barring non-food vendors from markets. An online petition launched by the Front Yard Flower Co. of Vancouver is asking provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry to permit non-food vendors soaps, fibres such as wool, flowers and artisan crafts at outdoor markets. It has gathered more than 6,500 signatures to date.

BC agriculture minister Lana Popham says the province is listening.

“We’re working on that and hopefully we’ll have some news soon,” she told the Certified Organic Associations of BC at its annual conference this past weekend.

With files from Barbara Johnstone Grimmer

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