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Article content A little more than three years after a fire destroyed the homes of 27 Indigenous families in East Vancouver, a new vision for the property will soon rise from the ashes. But not without opposition. A four-storey apartment building near Commercial Drive operated by the Vancouver Native Housing Society has been empty ever since a fire days before Christmas 2017 left the building uninhabitable. But with city council’s recent approval of a redevelopment plan, the society will more than double the number of affordable homes on the site. We apologize, but this video has failed to ...

But while they express overwhelming concern about HLB, many growers remain positive.

New Early-Harvest Walnut Variety Released Posted by David Eddy|January 23, 2021 University of California, Davis researchers have bred a new walnut variety — ‘UC Wolfskill’ — designed to provide growers a way to harvest earlier and boost the harvest efficiency of California’s $1.6 billion walnut industry. Advertisement The new walnut has yield, quality, and light color similar to ‘Chandler’, which is a late-harvesting walnut and the state’s leading variety. ‘UC Wolfskill’ was bred in 2003 from a cross of ‘Chandler’ with the ‘Solano’ walnut. It combines the color an...

Equipment Makers Power up To Reduce Labor Issues on the Farm Blueline’s latest labor-saving device, the OPH100N Narrow Orchard Harvesting Platform, has an ultra-sonic auto steering system that eliminates the need for a full-time driver and has zero impact bin drop to maintain top fruit quality. Photo courtesy of Blueline Manufacturing and Equipment It’s no secret that labor — or rather its increasing scarcity — is one of fruit growers’ biggest problems and has been for many years. Manufacturers of products for tree thinning, pruning, and training are closely attuned to growers’ ne...

Apple Growers Uneasy About Confusion Over Varieties The topic of new varieties again lit a fire under apple growers in the Western Fruit Grower® magazines’ 2021 State of the Industry survey, but this year growers are decidedly more negative than in the past. Whether it’s simply a case of growers feeling more negative in general this year — which is not necessarily borne out by other responses — or that satisfied growers are just quietly happy, more than 90% of the respondents take a dim view of all the new apple varieties. “As a retired tree fruit scientist who worked prominently ...