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KPU Farm Schools and Immigrant Farmers
During the 2023 farming season, members of the Zimbabwe Cultural Society of British Columbia (ZICUSO BC) joined our KPU Farm Schools program as incubator farmers. They were able to grow and distribute many types of vegetables to their community members while following organic practices. Muboora (pumpkin leaves) is featured in this video as a cultural food that is not commonly sold at conventional Canadian supermarkets. This project was supported in part by funding from Coast Capital Savings, KPU and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Newcomers and New Entrant farmers, featuring the Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
มุมมอง 199ปีที่แล้ว
Discover the partnership between the ISFS and the Pacific Immigrant Resources Society, as they join forces to bring about a lasting transformation through Community Supported Agriculture. Delve into the stories of the dedicated farmers who curate produce boxes for newcomers to Canada, and listen to the recipients as they share how these boxes have contributed to their sense of belonging and aid...
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) at KPU Farm Schools
มุมมอง 338ปีที่แล้ว
Explore the world of CSA at KPU Farm Schools, where the aspiring farmers of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS) utilize CSA to make a positive impact within the community. Gain insight into the significance of grants and other funding avenues that support programs like this, fostering community connections and expanding agricultural education. For mor...
KPU Farm Schools and Community Connection, Featuring Pathways Clubhouse
มุมมอง 198ปีที่แล้ว
Uncover the unique bond between KPU Farm Schools at Richmond, BC and Pathways Clubhouse. Engage with members and staff who attest to the importance of collaboration, access to fresh and affordable food, and the pursuit of new culinary experiences in nurturing overall health and well-being. For more information please visit: kpu.ca/isfs
Bring Pasture to Production Field Day
มุมมอง 195ปีที่แล้ว
In 2022, the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture hosted a field day to demonstrate different low-till techniques in transitioning pasture into cultivatable land. For more information of the results, please visit www.kpu.ca/sites/default/files/Bring Pasture into Production Booklet_2022.pdf
The Power of the Snout
มุมมอง 38K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Since 2018, research has been conducted at the Tsawwassen First Nation Farm School, located on Tsawwassen First Nation land in Delta, British Columbia. The study focused on determining best management practices for rotating grazing hogs in vegetable production. Research was conducted involving the integration of hogs and cover crops with vegetable production to determine the viability, applicab...
ALR Non-farm Use and Subdivision Study Research Presentation
มุมมอง 1412 ปีที่แล้ว
Over the years, there have been a number of non-farm use and subdivision activities proposed on the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) by landowners to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC). There had never been a study addressing the current use of the lands after non-farm use and subdivision activities were approved. This study developed a methodology to systematically track non-farm use and su...
Bouquet Making Tutorial
มุมมอง 742 ปีที่แล้ว
Making a bouquet for farmers' markets - Tsawwassen First Nation Farm School
Local food systems and vulnerable immigrants/refugees in Metro Vancouver
มุมมอง 1272 ปีที่แล้ว
The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and the Pacific Immigrant Resources Society invite you to watch our research presentation on the local food systems and vulnerable immigrant and refugee families in Metro Vancouver. The first part presents data from a survey and focus group discussions with immigrants and refugees. The second part highlights the current policy environment and examples ...
Seeding
มุมมอง 812 ปีที่แล้ว
Transplant production 101 at KPU farm schools. What we do and some things to think about when starting your seeds. For more information about our KPU Farm Schools, please visit: www.kpu.ca/farmschools The creation of this video was supported by the KPU Teaching and Learning Commons: www.kpu.ca/teaching-and-learning
Automatic Roll Ups
มุมมอง 812 ปีที่แล้ว
An introduction to DIY automatic roll up sides for low tunnels production. Basic Wiring schematics, design, and installation is covered. We hope to show growers with the interest how easy a system like this might be top install in their own production system. For more information about our KPU Farm Schools, please visit: www.kpu.ca/farmschools The creation of this video was supported by the KPU...
How-to: Canning
มุมมอง 852 ปีที่แล้ว
This "How-to: Canning" video is part of the knowledge mobilization activity developed for the Fostering a Healthy Food System for Vulnerable Families: The Farm to Healthy Communities Project. With the goal of testing a farm-to-household model that links and supports small-scale farmers to First Nation communities in BC, we hoped to remove barriers preventing access to and utilization of fresh, ...
New-entrant farmer circle
มุมมอง 1622 ปีที่แล้ว
Through our on-going engagement with small-scale farmers, we learned that getting started is the hardest part of their journey, especially for female farmers. In this video, three new-entrant female farmers shared their struggles and successes with us. This video is part of the Fostering a Healthy Food System for Vulnerable Families: The Farm to Healthy Communities Project. This project was in ...
How to: Kale
มุมมอง 952 ปีที่แล้ว
This "How-to: Kale" video is part of the knowledge mobilization activity developed for the Fostering a Healthy Food System for Vulnerable Families: The Farm to Healthy Communities Project. With the goal of testing a farm-to-household model that links and supports small-scale farmers to First Nation communities in BC, we hoped to remove barriers preventing access to and utilization of fresh, loc...
How to: Beet
มุมมอง 582 ปีที่แล้ว
This "How-to: Beets" video is part of the knowledge mobilization activity developed for the Fostering a Healthy Food System for Vulnerable Families: The Farm to Healthy Communities Project. With the goal of testing a farm-to-household model that links and supports small-scale farmers to First Nation communities in BC, we hoped to remove barriers preventing access to and utilization of fresh, lo...
Planning for Food Systems in Canada webinar.
มุมมอง 2042 ปีที่แล้ว
Planning for Food Systems in Canada webinar.
Integrating hogs in cover-vegetable rotation for healthy soils and humans - Introduction
มุมมอง 4833 ปีที่แล้ว
Integrating hogs in cover-vegetable rotation for healthy soils and humans - Introduction
Okanagan bioregional food system study webinar and discussion
มุมมอง 663 ปีที่แล้ว
Okanagan bioregional food system study webinar and discussion
Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Moving The Hogs
มุมมอง 6K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Moving The Hogs
Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Seeding The Cover Crop
มุมมอง 3.3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Seeding The Cover Crop
Farm to restaurant marketing presentation
มุมมอง 1413 ปีที่แล้ว
Farm to restaurant marketing presentation
ISFS's vision for our Southwest BC bioregional food system
มุมมอง 1153 ปีที่แล้ว
ISFS's vision for our Southwest BC bioregional food system
SSMPA webinar recording integrating hog in cover vegetable rotation
มุมมอง 1633 ปีที่แล้ว
SSMPA webinar recording integrating hog in cover vegetable rotation
Webinar recording Food access, perceptions, concerns and mobility during the COVID 19
มุมมอง 443 ปีที่แล้ว
Webinar recording Food access, perceptions, concerns and mobility during the COVID 19

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  • @ifyourmarriedyourasimpandacuck
    @ifyourmarriedyourasimpandacuck หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poor experiment, thats why science has lost credibility, becaue irlts all biased nonsense focused on reinforcing a narritive, instead of correctly going through the scientific process.

  • @brianripley8405
    @brianripley8405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the narrator's voice. ❤This is an outstanding demonstration. All our universities should be doing this.

  • @explorerryan
    @explorerryan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is terrific thanks for posting your work

  • @terrydoble1468
    @terrydoble1468 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you think there’s no “data” on whether animals properly managed improve soils, your not looking very hard. Sounds like your trying to justify your job.

  • @Mastadex
    @Mastadex 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a great study! Other than proteins, do the pigs get all their nutrients from the cover crops?

  • @TheOnlySgtRock
    @TheOnlySgtRock 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video.

  • @aherrns1894
    @aherrns1894 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful

  • @homeistheearth
    @homeistheearth ปีที่แล้ว

    What about using chickens instead of pigs? Could this do similar?

  • @sjk7314
    @sjk7314 ปีที่แล้ว

    What breed of pig is that?

  • @Duben-ym5vi
    @Duben-ym5vi ปีที่แล้ว

    very well done!

  • @kruball-smathtutor8097
    @kruball-smathtutor8097 ปีที่แล้ว

    สวัสดีครับอาจารย์ คลิปน่าสนใจ ภาพถ่ายสวย ขอเป็นกำลังใจให้อาจารย์ทำคลิปดีๆ ต่อไปนะครับ ^__^

  • @ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead
    @ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video Thankyou!

  • @ra3dbadr
    @ra3dbadr ปีที่แล้ว

    *GOATS WOULD DO A BETTER WORK*

  • @jol1958
    @jol1958 ปีที่แล้ว

    Goats are a safer choice.

  • @jimmydykes7961
    @jimmydykes7961 ปีที่แล้ว

    No way I'll turn hogs loose on my fields

  • @bwalker4276
    @bwalker4276 ปีที่แล้ว

    *promosm* 🍀

  • @peterclark6290
    @peterclark6290 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even for its day a 4 way cover crop is too limited. Does the brush hogging prove anything except the effects of suspending root growth and penetration? Bare soil is farming failure. Puddles are compaction central. What testing was done, compaction, SOM, etc? What conclusions re 2 day usage vs: single day or half day access? A very poor 'experiment'. Regenerative Agriculture? 100 years to grow one inch of top soil? Keep that to yourself. Farmers are earthworm-herders 1st, 2nd and 3rd and results of inches per decade are recorded on farms that use *regular compost sprays, as fast and as often as the Bioreactors* can pump out suitable material. Feed the worms with humus, bacteria and fungus and sit back.

  • @markpennella
    @markpennella ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent research video!!

  • @Stevenowski
    @Stevenowski ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a biased study at the very least.

    • @the_p03t92
      @the_p03t92 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Expand.

  • @lost329
    @lost329 ปีที่แล้ว

    No control?

  • @andrekuh3956
    @andrekuh3956 ปีที่แล้ว

    THANK YOU , VERY MUCH FOR SUCH AN VERY INTERESTING OBSERVATION. SO YOU LIGHTEN UP MY VIEWS ON DIVERSE FARM/ RANCH LAND MANAGEMENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SUCH AN INDEPH RESEACH.

  • @galeparker1067
    @galeparker1067 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would love to see someone address how the ALR has destroyed true farming in the Fraser Valley area of B.C. There is very little farming being done. People driving about may see large expanses of land but any food being produced is minimal, excluding an over abundance of blueberries, grapes, and the growing problem of cranberries. The "farmhouses" on many of these estates have 18 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms, hugest garages with large coach houses, etc. Very little property tax is paid. This use of farm land as a safety deposit box for wealth has destroyed food production capabilities that having these irreplaceable lands available to local producers could achieve. We should not be so dependant on imports from foreign countries, especially one that are having terrible problems with water shortages.

    • @explorerryan
      @explorerryan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Another critical question is why are we not allocating new ALR zones in crown land for new farms to be established as cities grow. A great deal of ALR land is so close to city centers that needs to be rezoned to support growth, however we don't replace this land with newly zoned farmland in crown land areas where farming can easily be supported. Perhaps a grant of several thousand acres of crown land outside of the city should be sold to farmers to support local populations. I assure you these are not the only suitable farming lands in BC.

  • @lisanelhiebel5669
    @lisanelhiebel5669 ปีที่แล้ว

    WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR

  • @racebiketuner
    @racebiketuner ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep up the great job!

  • @tedward720
    @tedward720 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome! Nice work and thanks for making the great info so accessible and understandable. Peace.

  • @greenquilter6441
    @greenquilter6441 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is an excellent demonstration of how integrated methods work!

  • @ashleyalexander7388
    @ashleyalexander7388 ปีที่แล้ว

    subscribed because of the graphics and talk through :)

  • @Tim23522
    @Tim23522 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think you stacked the deck. Using a disc causes compaction, that is why in construction they use it for drying and compaction. More you use it, the more it packs, more plow pan at the bottom of the tillage. That edge of the disc packs. Lot of plow pan causes a barrier of water and air movement in the soil. This happens a lot when you use it as a primary tillage, multi passes, as you seem to have rather then as a just a finish pass. I not saying the pigs won't do better, I just saying, I don't I trust the results. I think you should go with farming like regular farms. The same machines, same methods. As overseeding, maybe you should use modern planting instead of broadcast like in the middle ages. I think you might get a better stand, maybe better since all seeds are at the best depth for the seed. Maybe you should also look at the calcium and sulfer in the soil. Any soil going to compact without these two. On 100 years for 1 inch of topsoil, I would like to add, that decay of roots create topsoil, not the plant on top. Topsoil I think is mostly grass lands. I think really regenerative farming is a good idea. But your not going to get a farmer to change if you don't do a honest comparison of practice.

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have 1000 acres to work up come over and help me pull weeds by hand

    • @sillydogfarms2983
      @sillydogfarms2983 ปีที่แล้ว

      There ARE farmers who manage cover crops like the tillage plot.

    • @Tim23522
      @Tim23522 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arthurdewith7608 Don't understand what that means or how that ties in.

    • @Tim23522
      @Tim23522 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sillydogfarms2983 I thought you were talking regular crops, not like turnups, other heavy root crops like beans that going to break the soil. And I agree, the farmer next to me does. Not that it is right. Still say discing packs and really only works maybe 4 to 6" deep and gives a plow pan layer the plant roots don't want to go through. I think it holds back water too but not for sure.

  • @rosetvm
    @rosetvm ปีที่แล้ว

    Purpose of animal life is surely not to provide healthy protein to human. Look somewhere you perverse primitive human being....

  • @leoscheibelhut940
    @leoscheibelhut940 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very helpful. How often do you refill the water barrel? Don't the pigs knock the water barrel out of reach when it gets low? Why do you separate the hogs into pairs instead of running them as a group? Are they separate trials?

  • @benjamindejonge3624
    @benjamindejonge3624 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s always my question to big industry corn boys, how many earth worms per feet

  • @stoamnyfarms
    @stoamnyfarms ปีที่แล้ว

    "at least 100 years to form an inch of top soil" You've been reading too many old books. You can get an inch of top soil in less then 10 years easily. Much less if trees are involved.

    • @Rkdawla
      @Rkdawla ปีที่แล้ว

      Also depends upon slope, soil texture and precipitation...Dear!

    • @willbass2869
      @willbass2869 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed. Bad assumption. Bad science

  • @ihlianthinks
    @ihlianthinks ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you feed the pigs some extra grain? Or did they just consume what was on the pasture?

    • @corinesingfield1317
      @corinesingfield1317 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pigs need to be fed a high protein diet and they eat a lot. We did feed them grains but reduced the amount of feed while they were on pasture.

  • @alenalen6444
    @alenalen6444 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for your model.

  • @pablotoledo7678
    @pablotoledo7678 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excelente trabajo.... saludos desde Argentina...

  • @neilrowe119
    @neilrowe119 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was great thanks

  • @MistressOP
    @MistressOP ปีที่แล้ว

    Try and wood chip manure mix to fix those. Goose manure mix with woodchips, goat or rabbit cut will all work as well

  • @MistressOP
    @MistressOP ปีที่แล้ว

    If they had ducks or geese after the picks it would have worked even better letting them go after cover crop regrowth the last round

  • @rhosus2787
    @rhosus2787 ปีที่แล้ว

    Born to be ham

  • @snarky_user
    @snarky_user ปีที่แล้ว

    Unless your only goal is to restore soil for preservation, it only makes sense if you can return the land to industrial production, which defeats the purpose of restoring the soil in the first place. Your animal load was way too small to be viable as pork production. You invested considerable resources into providing food for the pigs that was never consumed because they were removed prior to consuming the roots and radishes. The extra forty percent of seed was essentially expensive pig feed that offset gazing. However, the introduction of pigs into fields with cover crops prior to production planting might make considerable sense if the grazing is intensive enough to complete the job before the planting window closes. That's a tough thing to accomplish in late winter.

    • @ViliamGajdos
      @ViliamGajdos ปีที่แล้ว

      I assume this system is not set for business scheme. I would gladly try and use it if I had a plot of land and wanted to have my own meat and veggie. No need to own a tractor is a nice bonus.

    • @corinesingfield1317
      @corinesingfield1317 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scientific experiments need to be replicated many times and as such we used the minimum stocking density possible to keep things manageable. However, as mentioned, it does not make sense from a management perspective to only have 2 pigs per grazing plots. On the rest of the farm we have pigs rotating through acres of land, eating and re-seeding their own forage. And they are eating! Tons of peas, lots of big radishes and everything else which translates to big savings on feed and really healthy parasite-free pigs. The only thing is that you need to move them before they eat over graze.

  • @soullivankhamtun1687
    @soullivankhamtun1687 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the promising result of the research. where can is find the result of the research in journal?

  • @cmbryan564
    @cmbryan564 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    p̷r̷o̷m̷o̷s̷m̷ 😳

  • @jamshidnikkerdar2074
    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great 👍 👌

  • @jamshidnikkerdar2074
    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's great ❤ 👍 👌

  • @jamshidnikkerdar2074
    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    @jamshidnikkerdar2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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