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Schedule Details
Start: 2025-11-15T13:00:00 | End: 2025-11-15T15:00:00
Price Details
Lowest: 0.00 CAD; Highest: 0.00 CAD
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Location Details
Summerland
9525 Wharton Street, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z2, Canada
About the Event
Looking to access farmland? Curious about sharing your land with a farmer? Join us to learn how!
Join Pascale (B.C. Land Matching Program Manager) and Haley (Thompson-Okanagan Land Matcher) in Summerland on November 15th to learn how you can access land for farming or make your land available to a farmer. Pascale and Haley will guide you through a self-assessment activity to help you create an action plan for your own land sharing journey. You'll leave the workshop with the knowledge, resources and connections needed to turn your plan into reality!
Why share land? The number of farmers in B.C. has been declining for several decades, and thousands of local farms have disappeared. Farm operators are ageing out of farming and retiring, but with the cost of farmland at an all-time high, many new farmers can't afford to buy land and continue their legacy. That's why the B.C. Land Matching Program exists, and our annual educational land sharing workshops offer an opportunity for farmers and landholders to connect with each other and learn how to share land.
DATE: Saturday, November 15, 2025 • 1-3 pm PST
LOCATION: Syilx Territory. George Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre, 9525 Wharton St, Summerland, BC
DIRECTIONS/PARKING/TRANSIT:
The George Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre is located on Wharton Street, off of Prairie Valley Road, which connects with the Okanagan Highway (Hwy 97). Free parking is available in the parking lot and on the adjacent streets. The centre is also transit-accessible via the 70 bus (travelling south on Hwy 97) or the 30 bus (travelling north on Hwy 97).
Note: Currently, Wharton Street is blocked off for construction, so the closest street parking may be located a block or two away from the venue. There is a free public parking lot near the Summerland Museum and Archives Society where participants can park. For any passengers that may need to be dropped off right outside the venue, participants can enter through Brown Street, turn into the Community Centre parking lot, and unload passengers before parking.
Carpooling is encouraged - if you are looking for or can offer a ride to or from the event, you can organize carpooling through the Facebook event. Please do not bring pets to the event. Kids are welcome!
SCHEDULE:
1 pm: Arrival (light refreshments will be available)
1 - 2:30 pm: Land Sharing Workshop, including self-assessment activities and Q&A
2:30 - 3 pm: Introduction Circle & Networking
ACCESSIBILITY: If you have any accessibility needs, please get in touch with us at bclmp@youngagrarians.org.
CANCELLATIONS: Please let us know if you have registered for this event but are no longer able to attend. You can cancel your registration anytime through Eventbrite, via the link in your registration confirmation email, or by contacting bclmp@youngagrarians.org
QUESTIONS? Email Dani at bclmp@youngagrarians.org
