Budding farmer gets chance to grow his dream orchard thanks to land-matching program
This year, Kanver Brares will be tending his own fruit trees in the Similkameen Valley — a dream he has had since childhood — thanks to a budding provincial program matching new farmers with land. Agricultural land is notoriously expensive in B.C., making it hard for new farmers like Brares to enter the industry. That's worrying: Most farmers in the province are nearing retirement. Already, more than half the province's produce is imported, leaving it susceptible to everything from drought to political upheavals. In 2016, the provincial government partnered with Young Agrarians, a networ...
Source: nationalobserver.com
