The UBC Farm
"No one thing here does just one thing." These are words Mark Bomford says often about UBC Farm. The more the director of UBC’s Centre for Sustainable Food Systems talks about its cultivated fields, teaching gardens, forest stands, hedgerows and orchard plantings, the more you realize: he’s not kidding.
By Basil Waugh | Photo by Javier Landaeta
UBC Reports | Vol. 56 | No. 10 | Oct. 7, 2010
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