North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society is a registered charity. Please help support our work through a tax deductible donation. You can make a donation by mailing it to the address above or donate online right now by clicking above.
Your online donation will be processed through Canada Helps and they will issue you a reciept to use with your tax return. Mailed in donations will be processed by us and we will issue a receipt to use with your tax return.
Farmers to Farms - the West Kootenay Farmer Land Bank Database.
The Kaslo Food Security Project has compiled listings of both landowners and landless farmers. The landowners listed are interested in having their land farmed, and or expanded operations. The landless farmers are experienced farmers looking to find land they can set up farming enterprises or attain personal sustainability. The Data Base is divided up into regions. Each region has a listing for both land and farmers. Should you want to contact any of the listings, please do so directly.
List of Landowners looking for Farmers
List of Farmers looking for land
As part of our Farmer Land Bank project, the KFSP hosted a one day information event about various agreements that landowners and farmers may use to attain a successful relationship. To facilitate the event, we hosted two BC experts on securing and perpetuating sustainable farming; Ramona Scott of the Land Conservancy and Heather Pritchard of Farm Folk City Folk. They are both the founders and ongoing members of the Community Farms Program in BC. For more information about their work and organizations, please follow the links posted here:
- Community Farms
- The Land Conservancy
- Farm Folk/City Folk
- Community Farms Program handout
- Contact Ramona Scott
- Contact Heather Pritchard
For an audio replay of the Farmer-Land Bank event, follow the link here (Due to the large file size, we have removed these two audio files from our website. If you would like it to be reposted temporarily for you to access, please email webmaster@nklcss.org and request it to be reposted. Our webmaster will send you a reply when they have been posted. You will usually have at least 24 hours to access them before they will be removed again):
Farmer-Land event audio - Part 1 (~1.5 hours)
Farmer-Land event audio - Part 2(~40 minutes)
For a guide to questions to ask Farmers or Landowners when making agreements, follow these links:
Questions to ask a Farmer
Questions to ask a Landowner