Agriculture

Sundog Veggies

Whitehorse project grows youth skills … and 18,000 kg of veggies!

Sundog Retreat looks forward to another season of their agricultural training program

  • Mar 15, 2021

 

Megan Waterman, director of the Lastraw Ranch, is using remediated placer mine land in the Dawson area to raise local meat in a new initiative undertaken with the Yukon government’s agriculture branch. (Submitted)

Dawson-area farm using placer miner partnership to raise pigs on leased land

“Who in their right mind is going to do agriculture at a mining claim? But this made sense.”

 

Agriculture policy released

Document will guide food production over next decade

 

Whitehorse firm Solvest hopes to grow business with hydroponic farms

‘When you take produce 2,000 km up the highway, you lose some nutrition’

Yukon ranchers actually love the elk

Don’t lump LaPrairie Bison Ranch in with farmers who want to cull the herd

  • Nov 14, 2017

Yukon government signs on to new Canadian agriculture agreement

Community Agriculture Program, will bring in up to $4 million over five years, Pillai says

Researchers asking Yukoners for input on food policy

‘As Northerners we’re defining our own needs’

  • Jul 26, 2017

Dawson City’s Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in teaching farm grows up and out

Staff hope to eventually grow produce year round