Live in Vancouver. Eat Local Grain.
Thanks in part to the sudden popularity of the 100-Mile Diet and various other eat local movements, foodies across the province, the country, and even the world, have been inspired to seek out more...
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View Article2009 members: last day for surveys!
Today’s the last day to submit your surveys and enter to win the Farm Folk prize pack. Get on over there! (Web link is in the emails you received.)
View ArticleHello to all at Urban Grains!
A new season is underway and we send greetings from Cedar Isle Farm in Agassiz. We thank each of you for your patience and continued interest in Urban Grains CSA. It was great to hear from those of you...
View ArticleThe grain heads are filling!
The glow of the setting sun on Mt. Cheam is a backdrop for maturing heads of Urban Grains CSA wheat Another wonderful growing day ends with the sun setting on Bear Mountain over a field of Urban...
View ArticleHarvest 2013
The soft white spring wheat flourished during a wonderful summer and was harvested in late August. Hannah operates the combine beside a field of golden straw from newly-harvested oats. Two years ago,...
View Article2014 Spring Update
Happy Spring And welcome to the 2014 season of Urban Grains CSA! Welcome new members! Welcome back previous members! We hope you have enjoyed your winter and early spring baking, and that you’re...
View ArticleFall update from Cedar Isle Farm
Happy October! As the greyness becomes dominant in weather forecast, Cedar Isle Farm is in a hurry getting winter grain in the ground. The seeds are sown with our optimism for next season and...
View ArticleHappy spring greetings from Cedar Isle Farm
Happy spring greetings and welcome back to Urban Grains! The new season is definitely here on the farm and change is in the air… When Urban Grains CSA was formed in 2009, it was run by Martin and Ayla...
View ArticleSoggy blog
On the farm the rain has actually been welcomed – Jim worked like the dickens to get all the spring wheat seeded before the deluge and he succ(s)eeded! And thus the kernels of spring wheat are soaking...
View ArticleSeasons within the seasons
May 10, 2015 by Henrie We talk of four seasons to a year, and yet I am struck by the seasons within the seasons. This is my second year in Agassiz, and I am learning newly about spring. The fall rye...
View ArticleSFU – UFV Students Study Beetles at Cedar Isle Farm
When our good friend Todd Kabaluk, research scientist at Pacific Agric-Foods Research Centre, asked if SFU graduate student Joyce Leung could study the movements of wireworm beetles at Cedar Isle...
View ArticleThe grain heads are filling!
The glow of the setting sun on Mt. Cheam is a backdrop for maturing heads of Urban Grains CSA wheat Another wonderful growing day ends with the sun setting on Bear Mountain over a field of Urban...
View ArticleHarvest 2013
The soft white spring wheat flourished during a wonderful summer and was harvested in late August. Hannah operates the combine beside a field of golden straw from newly-harvested oats. Two years ago,...
View Article2014 Spring Update
Happy Spring And welcome to the 2014 season of Urban Grains CSA! Welcome new members! Welcome back previous members! We hope you have enjoyed your winter and early spring baking, and that you’re...
View ArticleFall update from Cedar Isle Farm
Happy October! As the greyness becomes dominant in weather forecast, Cedar Isle Farm is in a hurry getting winter grain in the ground. The seeds are sown with our optimism for next season and...
View ArticleHappy spring greetings from Cedar Isle Farm
Happy spring greetings and welcome back to Urban Grains! The new season is definitely here on the farm and change is in the air… When Urban Grains CSA was formed in 2009, it was run by Martin and Ayla...
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