What We're Learning

Your Local Farmer isn't on Salary

One of the first rules of business I learned was this: Pay yourself first. The money you earn from working on your business — your salary — is different from the money you make by virtue of being the business owner — your profits. Which is to say, a business isn't profitable until after it has paid

What makes a Healthy Business Environment for Farmers?

What would it look like to live in a world where farmers didn't struggle to make a living? How would it be different from our world right now? This gets right to the heart of why The Hands that Feed Us matters: Canadian farmers struggle financially because the business environment they exist in is n

Why Food Businesses don't stay Small

In my quest to find out why farming is such a tough business, a workshop for Food & Ag Entrepreneurs [https://www.vantec.ca/events/food-ag-entrepreneur-workshop] by a local Angel Investment Network caught my eye. It was a short, half-day workshop with potential investors that promised to explain the

The Hands that Feed Us: Amara Farm

Before The Hands that Feed Us was a campaign, it was a short, 12 minute documentary featuring Arzeena Hamir and her family on their organic produce farm [https://mervilleorganics.ca/] in Comox, B.C. The farm works because it's a family and a community, where love and commitment outweigh the financia