OUR STORY
A guy who just wanted to grow stuff
Yeah...seriously. While it's true I have held a great many interests, I believe there has been a common thread! After getting a BA in Psychology, I naturally went on to study Culinary Arts at Malaspina College then did my apprenticeship at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, before spending a challenging and expansive year in France working at Le Clos St. Pierre just outside of Nice. After 6 years I realized I needed a break from restaurant life and shifted my cooking to catering in the film industry - but through it all, growing tomatoes and veggies has always been my summer pastime and somehow it has grown into this farm!
And with this farm, I get to share my excitement for all things food from all angles - from watching the tiniest seeds grow to the great meal shared with friends and family from the harvest - it's time to rediscover where our food comes from. Not from a plastic container but from the land with a healthy, living soil biome!
ABOUT RIVER'S EDGE FARM
The idea behind River's Edge Farm has been one brewing inside David for decades, but it wasn't until we found this beautiful parcel of land outside of Pemberton, BC in 2018 that it began to feel like a possible reality. We bought the land in February of 2020, blissfully unaware of the incoming Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, it has definitely been a process of juggling growing, learning, and working on it! We are still discovering what crops and plants will thrive the most on our farm, and our goal is to be living and working on it full-time by 2026.
We are a No-Till Regenerative Agriculture practice, as we believe that this is the best way to grow the healthiest, most nutrient dense food out there. Oh!!..... and it's better for the planet too!
No-Till, Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture (RA) is a wholistic approach to farming where the development of the soil is paramount. To develop the soil we do not till, or, deeply dig into the land, in order to preserve what is known as the soil food web. The soil food web is the interrelations between everything living in the soil, from larger worms to smaller bacteria and the fungal network. Keeping the food soil web healthy and working is key to building a deep, rich topsoil which leads to stronger, healthier plants - and to longevity in cultivation. The ‘no-till’ approach also helps to prevent soil erosion, as well as to retain the carbon already captured in the soil, thereby increasing resilience to climate change.