This very new and passionate co-op is comprised of a small group of African immigrants who share a love of agriculture and working the land as their ancestors have for generations. Despite arriving in BC’s urban Lower Mainland and all having full-time work, they found their way to each other and created the African-Canadian Agricultural Producers Co-operative to further their dream of growing healthy, sustainable, traditional crops of their homelands, sharing ancestral knowledge and building community.
With assistance from Solid State Industries and The Young Agrarian Society, the co-op found several acres to tend in Port Kells and began readying the soil to produce a bumper crop of strawberries and garlic. Local restaurants welcomed this bounty and the co-operators feel buoyed by their initial success!
Have a listen as co-op member Edgar Ondati shares this great story of relationships, resilience and new beginnings.
