About Farmbase
Farmbase was created in 2009 by the Islands Organic Producers Association in order to provide web-based information to farmers on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
IOPA gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions of:
- IOPA members, who have generously invested the proceeds from their own farms into this project;
- The Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C., through the Agri-Food Futures Fund, Islands Agri-Food Initiative, a joint venture between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands;
- Vancity; and
- Integrity Sales
Farmbase pulls together excellent resources available from other non-profit organizations. In particular, IOPA acknowledges and thanks the contributions and leadership of the:
- Canadian Organic Growers and their Vancouver Island Chapter, COG-VI. COG has shown vision and leadership in strengthening organic agriculture in Canada.
- Canadian Organic Office of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Organic Materials Research Institute
This website would not exist without the hard work of Mike Sargent, Robin Tunnicliffe, Randy Pearson, Greg Awai and Jane Worton.
Special thanks and credit is due to the website designer and programme, Phil Rees. He can be reached at phil@farmbase.ca
IOPA is also grateful for the ongoing contributions of Angela Moran. Angela will be updating and correcting the data on this site. If you would like changes to the content on this site, please email Angela directly at angela@farmbase.ca
Kind regards,
Samuel Godfrey
Project Lead, Farmbase
samuel@farmbase.ca
