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Urban Ag

Start designing your coop: Backyard chickens closer to reality in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents may soon be able to keep their own backyard coops as urban chickens moved one step closer to reality this week. Staff will move forward with creating an outline for what urban chickens in Kamloops should look like after city council approved an urban agriculture plan this week. In a look...

Back to the land; a passion for growing and harvesting food

KAMLOOPS – For those who grow and harvest their own food – whether for the love of the earth or simply for produce – you are well supported in Kamloops.   Sandra Frangiadakis and Elmarie Roberts share the same passion. Frangiadakis is the program coordinator of the Gleaning Abundance Project and Roberts, of Haliburton Farm in...

Cooking with backyard flowers

'I DIDN'T KNOW I COULD EAT THAT' KAMLOOPS – There is more to eat in your backyard garden than just vegetables. Elaine Sedgman, of the Thompson Shuswap Master Gardeners Association of B.C., loves cooking with flowers because not only does it make food aesthetically pleasing but it’s experimental. “When I have my grandkids here we...

Edible gardens on display this weekend in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – Grow what you eat, eat what you grow, and still have a beautiful garden. If you've ever wondered about edible gardening this weekend is your chance to find out more and tour local gardens centred around edible plants. The Gleaning Abundance Project will host an Edible Garden Tour on Saturday June 20. The...

Council prepares to dig into urban ag plan

KAMLOOPS – How would you like to have chickens for neighbours?  That is one of the questions city councillors will discuss when they meet Tuesday morning to discuss the draft food and urban agricultural plan, a 66-page document outlining a food systems and urban agriculture plan for the city. The preliminary groundwork has been done,...

City gets more room to grow

COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM EXPANDING KAMLOOPS - More than 80 new community garden plots are in the works and if approved, we may even see a community orchard, public greenhouse and additional workshops. Shelaigh Garson, the community garden program coordinator for Interior Community Services, says the city has approved two new locations for community gardens and...

Let’s talk urban agriculture

KAMLOOPS — An important step in the development of urban agriculture and food security policy, such as those that would allow animals such as goats and chickens within the city limits, will take place later this month. A stakeholder workshop will be held June 25 and will include presentations from city of Kamloops staff. There...

Coop coup at council

KAMLOOPS - Six hens are being allowed to roost at their Heffley Creek home a little longer thanks to some chicken-loving council members. Lyann Wourms lives in a semi-rural area in Heffley Creek. Her property backs onto a large treed portion of crown land and about a year ago she brought home six laying hens....

Food, animals hot topics

KAMLOOPS — Chickens, bees and community gardens are just a few of the topics already covered in the first six hours worth of meetings held by the newly formed urban agriculture committee. A total of 17 people sit on the committee, which has had three meetings already, and much of the talk has centred around...