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Gabriola Agriculture Co-op BLOG
blog posts from our community
The Magic of Soil
In response to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization announcement, “Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues” (Scientific American, Dec. 5, 2014), University of British Columbia Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomer, Phil Gregory, has spent...
How much food do you waste?
Did you know? Canadians waste $31 billion of food every year! And 47% of that food is wasted in the home. The primary contributor to consumer food waste is high expectations—demand for high-quality, aesthetically-pleasing food is a key factor behind the volume of food...
The agricultural carrying capacity of Vancouver Island
Jared Smith wrote a paper about food production on Vancouver Island which highlights the issues of food security on Vancouver Island. Are we doing enough to feed ourselves on Gabriola? "Because so few people are directly involved in agriculture, there exists a...