Urban Digs Farmers
This is very much a group effort. Here's a little bit about the people that make it all happen:
Julia & Ludo
Julia and Ludo make a great team and are the driving force behind the operation of the farm. They met 6 years ago and soon decided to take a crack at urban farming in order to help meet their personal sustainability goals.
Julia did her Permaculture Design Certification out of curiosity while studying geology at UBC. By the end of the course, she had decided that sustainable agriculture was the earth science for her so she changed her major and is now studying sustainable agriculture part time at UBC and full time through the day to day operations at Urban Digs Farm. With a passion for sustainable, regenerative agriculture, she is happy to have the opportunity to work at something so close to her heart. Julia is an active member of the Vancouver Urban Farmers Network and Metro Vancouver City Farms as well as a director in the Friends of Southlands Society.
Ludo works in restoration when he isn't farming. Our aquaponics setup is his project which is a work in progress and constantly being refined as he tries new things and learns new techniques.
Julia did her Permaculture Design Certification out of curiosity while studying geology at UBC. By the end of the course, she had decided that sustainable agriculture was the earth science for her so she changed her major and is now studying sustainable agriculture part time at UBC and full time through the day to day operations at Urban Digs Farm. With a passion for sustainable, regenerative agriculture, she is happy to have the opportunity to work at something so close to her heart. Julia is an active member of the Vancouver Urban Farmers Network and Metro Vancouver City Farms as well as a director in the Friends of Southlands Society.
Ludo works in restoration when he isn't farming. Our aquaponics setup is his project which is a work in progress and constantly being refined as he tries new things and learns new techniques.
Ann
Ann is the Urban Digs Chicken Farmer extraordinaire. When she isn't cleaning the coop, collecting eggs, feeding, watering or attending to any of the other glamourous jobs associated with being a chicken farmer, Ann is extremely active in the local sustainability movement, primarly through her work with Village Vancouver where she is on the steering committee and through several interesting community projects including the Dunbar Dollar, emergency preparedness, and the Dunbar Transition Village.
Megan
Megan was born in the interior of B.C. into a family that loved to grow vegetables and fruit in their backyards. Now a second year business student at the University of British Columbia, she continues to grow veggies (between studying) on her balcony. Megan hopes to apply her business knowledge and one day own her own farm, but for now she's excited to learn as much as she can about life on an an urban farm.
Heather
Heather grew up east of the Rockies in the booming metropolis of Edmonton, Alberta. She has been in Vancouver for close to a decade, and has serious romantic feelings towards this city. She originally came out to the coast to study Visual Art at Emily Carr University, and she did that, but in the past few years she has realized that what she is really passionate about is food – growing it, cooking it, and eating it. She has been studying things like these for two years in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC and loving it more by the day. Heather is totally stoked to join Urban Digs this summer and become part of such an amazing community!
Jensen
Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C., Jensen joined the Urban Digs crew as a regular volunteer in May of 2012. Usually found farming on Mondays and Tuesdays, he is particularly fond of tedious and difficult labour tasks but has a moral, psychological, and olfactory aversion to anything involving farmed fish waste product. Jensen is currently at UBC studying History, Political Science, and German. He works at a winemaking store in his spare time and is therefore the go-to contact for Urban Digs recreational beverages.
Theresa
Theresa loves eating, being outside, and getting dirty, so growing food is a perfect match. She grows veggies in her teeny weeny backyard, but is interested in learning how to grow food on a slightly larger basis. Theresa found Urban Digs through Village Vancouver and is happy to join this gang of like-minded people who take such great pleasure (and sometimes pain) to grow healthy, sustainable, gorgeous fruits and veggies.
