Peter Mitham

After only a year, BC Fruit Growers Association general manager Melissa Tesche has resigned to take her “dream job” as executive director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board. “The timing is too soon,”…

Denman Island’s Gather Farm and Kitchen is this year’s recipient of the Mary Forstbauer Grant from the BC Association of Farmers Markets (BCAFM). The award was announced via social media on March 19…

“Employees must stop crying before returning to work.” The decal, spotted recently in the washroom of a small-town veterinary clinic alongside the soap dispenser, may be the best mental wellness…

Well-known Langley berry grower Driediger Farms is for sale. “I’ve been looking at different options for selling for the past couple of years. But I just decided this is the time…

Seasonally adjusted figures indicate rising employment in the BC farm sector this year, and those earning minimum wage can look forward to bigger paycheques this month. The province mandated a 2.6%

BC apple growers will soon vote whether or not to establish an apple marketing commission, following a public consultation this spring led by Inner Harbour Consulting Inc. “A recent survey of apple…

A long-standing plastics recycling program in the District of Kent is expanding to the Fraser Valley at large with the backing of the provincial and federal governments. Cleanfarms…

A team led by Simon Fraser University plant genomics researcher Jim Mattsson is taking its research on greenhouse grown berries to the next level with a $5 million grant from the Weston Family…

North Vancouver-based agritech start-up Ecoation Innovative Solutions Inc. is now part of Biobest. Biobest purchased Ecoation’s business, certain assets and acquired key personnel as part of the deal…

Dry conditions in wide swaths of eastern BC means ranchers in the regions can take advantage of the federal livestock tax deferral provision in 2025. The provision is triggered when drought…