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 decided to take a crack at urban farming after moving to the large Blenheim Street property.
Julia did her Permaculture Design Certification while studying at UBC and is now the full time Urban Digs farm manager. 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 while studying at UBC and is now the full time Urban Digs farm manager. 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 lives just around the corner and 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.
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.
Rosy
Though originally from Toronto, Rosy's been living in BC for the past 3 and a half years and has now officially converted to the West coast lifestyle. She originally came out for the mountains, but quickly realized the local food movement is where it's at! Rosy started helping out at Urban Digs back in February 2011, and fell so in love with green eggs, fluffy-headed chickens, and backyard veggies that she stuck around for another growing season. Currently in her last year and a half of studies in the Global Resource Systems program at UBC, Rosy hopes to focus the last few terms she has left on learning more about sustainable soil and ecosystem management. She hopes to make this legume-and-herb-focused growing season her best yet - PRAY FOR SUN!
Gemma
Gemma found Urban Digs in March 2011. After traveling for a few months,
she returned to Vancouver in July where farming was in full swing and veggies
were rapidly sprouting. She is currently in her last year of studying at UBC
where she began as a student in a nutrition based program. After taking agriculture classes,
including one in Cuba, and working with Urban Digs, she quickly realized that
her passion lay in the growing of happy, healthy food. The change in her
focus and studies will bring Gemma to achieve a degree in sustainable
agriculture in the Global Resource Systems program. After graduating she will be back on the farm and growing local, organic tea and herbs right here in Vancouver.
she returned to Vancouver in July where farming was in full swing and veggies
were rapidly sprouting. She is currently in her last year of studying at UBC
where she began as a student in a nutrition based program. After taking agriculture classes,
including one in Cuba, and working with Urban Digs, she quickly realized that
her passion lay in the growing of happy, healthy food. The change in her
focus and studies will bring Gemma to achieve a degree in sustainable
agriculture in the Global Resource Systems program. After graduating she will be back on the farm and growing local, organic tea and herbs right here in Vancouver.
Taylor
Taylor is a Dunbar local who joined the Urban Digs Farmily in May 2011, after connecting with Julia and Ludo via Sharing Yards. Taylor is a UBC student and is currently working towards an undergraduate degree in Biogeography. Her farming/gardening education is guided by her interest in the medicinal uses of native plants. In the future, Taylor plans to work in the field of environmental law and someday build a home and farm of her own.
