Friends of UBC Farm did the job needed to marshall the troops
CTV, CKNW, the Georgia Straight and Fairchild TV were on hand for the historic debate
Judy Williams, Wreck Beach Preservation Society & Fraser River Coalition
UBC's Voice of Agriculture, soil scientist Dr. Art Bomke (green vest)
Damien Gillis, Farmland Defence League of BC
UBC Farm was no exception to Bowen Island's David Hocking (formerly of the David Suzuki Foundation) consistently strong support of farmland.
Mel Lehan (red sweater) and Dr. Fred Bass (coral tie)
Directors Hocking and Keating both spoke passionately in favour of the resolution and the process of approving it.
Mel Lehan, Vancouver Farmers Markets Society and Vancouver Point Grey community activist
Geoff Senichenko, Wilderness Committee
Wilderness Committee's Geoff Senichenko, made the case for the opportunity represented by UBC Farm to protect what remains of diminishing wildlife foodlands in BC's largest city .
Andrea Morgan and Matt Filipiak, Friends of UBC Farm
Matt Filipiak, Friends of UBC Farm and UBC Food and Lands faculty soil scientist, Dr Art Bomke
Overhead monitors show the layout of the farm
Art Bomke makes a case for preserving the size and location of the current farm
Director Harold Steves, Chair of Metro's Agriculture Committee (and arguably the best product to ever come off the UBC Farm) was the architect of the resolution and debate
Tristan Markle, Alma Mater Society VP, Administration told the Board that the faculty and students are united in wanting the farm preserved as is.
The Real Deal. Heather spoke passionately about farmland, food security and the moral obligation to protect UBC Farm, ending speculation that Vision has abandoned support for farmland and Green Zone.
Jolie Mayer-Smith, Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies, talked about the learning gardens that draw hundreds of school children to UBC farm to learn about food and agriculture.
Dr. Fred Bass talked about health and food security in the age of global warming
Andrea Morgan and Matt Filipiak
David Tracy, Vancouver Food Policy Council (and former VAncouver Community Agriculture Network = VCAN)
SPEC Food Security Commitee Co-Chair did SPEC proud, talking about Vancouver's growing community and the important role UBC Farm plays in that.
Burnaby's Sav Dhaliwal has been a consistently strong friend of farmland.
White Rock Mayor Judy Forester and Langley Township Mayor Kurt Alberts. Alberts spoke so passionately about protecting UBC Farm one would almost wonder why he just approved a 10 acre ALR exclusion in his own community.
More frequently observed at social housing and policy debates, Surrey's Judy Villeneuve gave her underexercised farm advocacy legs a workout and spoke passionately against a motion to defer the vote. "I'm not sure I'll be here next time and I want to do what I came here to do: vote for UBC Farm."
UBC Planning's Joe Stott sat quietly in the audience while Board members wondered why the University wasn't in attendance.
David Cadman, Vancouver Councilor and President of the Int'l Council of Local Enviromental Initiatives (ICLEI) strutted his sustainability stuff, eliminating any speculation about where COPE stands on farmland and Green Zone.
White Rock Mayor Judy Forester called on the Board to unanimously support UBC Farm... and they did
Comraderie between Surrey and Ricmond agricultural advocates.
Post-vote Jubilation.
Happy students and farmland advocates
UBC Planning's Joe Stott tells CTV's Maria Weisgarber he has no authority to speak to the proposed development of UBC Farm or Metro Vancouver's historic unanimous vote to protect the Farm.
3 for Farmland: Mel Lehan, Harold Steves and Art Bomke
the proud father of BC's farmland protection movement, Harold Steves being interviewed by CKNW's Tyler Noble
Art and Mel talk to Metro Planning Staff
Hugh Kellas fields questions from students
