May 2 2012
Weeding out the Pot from the Carrots
Macleans Magazine
Ken MacQueen
Like many of Vancouver’s urban farmers, Emi Do operates outside the law. Unlike most, her product is no more nefarious than Swiss chard and collard greens. The 28-year-old owner of Yummy Yards has backyard garden plots throughout the city’s west side.
Read more here:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/02/weeding-out-the-pot-from-the-carrots-2/
Macleans Magazine
Ken MacQueen
Like many of Vancouver’s urban farmers, Emi Do operates outside the law. Unlike most, her product is no more nefarious than Swiss chard and collard greens. The 28-year-old owner of Yummy Yards has backyard garden plots throughout the city’s west side.
Read more here:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/02/weeding-out-the-pot-from-the-carrots-2/
April 22 2012
City of Vancouver to weed out laws impeding agriculture
Randy Shore
The City of Vancouver is pursuing changes to bylaws and regulations that will rescue commercial urban agriculture from its legal limbo.
A team of city staff members has convened with the goal of removing the legal impediments to farming on both public and private land, according to Coun. Andrea Reimer.
Read more here
Randy Shore
The City of Vancouver is pursuing changes to bylaws and regulations that will rescue commercial urban agriculture from its legal limbo.
A team of city staff members has convened with the goal of removing the legal impediments to farming on both public and private land, according to Coun. Andrea Reimer.
Read more here
April 13 2012
CNN
Future Cities
An episode of CNN International's 'Future Cities'. Here, they explore the local food movement in Vancouver and visit Julia and I to chat about what we're doing and how we're working with the City of Vancouver. Click here to view.
Future Cities
An episode of CNN International's 'Future Cities'. Here, they explore the local food movement in Vancouver and visit Julia and I to chat about what we're doing and how we're working with the City of Vancouver. Click here to view.
April 4 2012
Urban Farmers in Vancouver plant around Municipal By-law
Thunderbird
Julia Kalinina
Commercial farming on residential plots remains illegal in Vancouver, despite the fact that local food production forms a key pillar of Vancouver’s plan to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. Insurance companies don’t cover operations that contravene municipal by-laws. It’s a by-law the city’s commercial urban farmers say needs to be changed.
Read More: here
February 15th 2012
Dunbar: Vancouver's Newest Food Oasis
Dunbar Life Magazine
Julia Smith
As I write this all snuggled up in wool socks by my space heater, watching the disgruntled chickens make their way through the snowy yard, it is hard to believe it's almost time to start planting for the upcoming growing season...
Read More here
Dunbar Life Magazine
Julia Smith
As I write this all snuggled up in wool socks by my space heater, watching the disgruntled chickens make their way through the snowy yard, it is hard to believe it's almost time to start planting for the upcoming growing season...
Read More here
February 15 2012
February 6th 2012
Temple Offers Land to Young Farmers
Vancouver Sun
Randy Shore
Land and capital costs are the biggest impediments facing young farmers, particularly in the urban environment.
“In the city, I’m farming on land worth $7 million an acre,” said Julia Smith of Vancouver-based Urban Digs Farm. Smith grows a variety of vegetables and raises rabbits, poultry and eggs.
Smith and Emi Do of Yummy Yards and Shirlene Cote of Earth Apple Farm met with temple officials on a sunny morning last week to view the property and feel out the terms of an as-yet unwritten lease.
Read more here
Vancouver Sun
Randy Shore
Land and capital costs are the biggest impediments facing young farmers, particularly in the urban environment.
“In the city, I’m farming on land worth $7 million an acre,” said Julia Smith of Vancouver-based Urban Digs Farm. Smith grows a variety of vegetables and raises rabbits, poultry and eggs.
Smith and Emi Do of Yummy Yards and Shirlene Cote of Earth Apple Farm met with temple officials on a sunny morning last week to view the property and feel out the terms of an as-yet unwritten lease.
Read more here
September 7 2011
Yummy Yards Bloom With Food Around the City
Vancouver Courier
Cheryl Rossi
Earlier this year, the boulevard on the northeast corner of the intersection at West 41st Avenue at Blenheim was a chafer beetle-decimated site. Now it bursts with the beauty of red-stemmed kale, purple balls of kohlrabi and green bouquets of Brussels sprouts.
It's a garden split between two urban farms, one of which, Yummy Yards, was co-founded in November by Emi Do. The eastern portion of the Blenheim location is its newest plot.
The 27-year-old Do, who is concerned about urban food systems, started volunteering at Southlands Heritage Farm on Balaclava at West 51st Avenue last year.
Read more here
Vancouver Courier
Cheryl Rossi
Earlier this year, the boulevard on the northeast corner of the intersection at West 41st Avenue at Blenheim was a chafer beetle-decimated site. Now it bursts with the beauty of red-stemmed kale, purple balls of kohlrabi and green bouquets of Brussels sprouts.
It's a garden split between two urban farms, one of which, Yummy Yards, was co-founded in November by Emi Do. The eastern portion of the Blenheim location is its newest plot.
The 27-year-old Do, who is concerned about urban food systems, started volunteering at Southlands Heritage Farm on Balaclava at West 51st Avenue last year.
Read more here
August 30 2011
Local Food in Kitsilano
Kits.ca
Taraneh
I recently met Emi Do and Mark Seiling (pictured right), the two youthful urban farmers behind Yummy Yards, at a Kits House potluck dinner about food security. They had dirt under their fingernails and a lot of pluck when it came to discussing local food. It turns out they’ve been growing veg and leafy greens out of eight neighbourhood yards located mostly in Dunbar/Southlands.
They just emailed me to let me know that Yummy Yards has an abundance of crops that they’d like to share, but it’s challenging to get the word out. Yummy Yards is all about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)–a global movement that connects consumers with food producers. I thought I’d facilitate some connecting.
Read more here
June 25 2011
Vancouver's Growing Local Farmer MovementGlobe and Mail
John Lehmann
Vancouver's Growing Local Farmer Movement
